Why the state wants to clamp down on homeschooling
The government’s new cohesion strategy, ‘Protecting What Matters: Towards a more confident, cohesive and resilient United Kingdom’, has attracted attention…
Labour’s migration bind
After Labour came third in Gorton and Denton, the government had a choice. Chase the lost Green vote by moving…
The CPS has failed in its bid to create an Islamic blasphemy law
For much of the last year, it has seemed like the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been battling to create…
Reform’s plan for mass deportations
After Zia Yusuf’s announcement that Reform would create a ‘UK Deportation Command’ (UKDC), much of the media leapt to make…
Why can’t this advert depict a black sexual harasser?
A Transport for London (TfL) advert has been banned for ‘perpetuating a negative racial stereotype about black men’. The decision,…
The Commonwealth voting scandal
Labour’s new Representation of the People Bill, introduced to Parliament last week, has drawn attention because it will give around…
The Afghan asylum crime wave has to stop
On 22 July last year, in Nuneaton, a 12-year-old girl was playing on the swings. There she was spotted by…
It’s time to ban men from working in nurseries
Nathan Bennett was employed at a nursery, caring for toddlers, when he committed 21 sexual offences against five of them.…
Why are so many female prison guards having sex with inmates?
There’s so much bad news about our prisons that it’s easy to become fatigued by it. Another failing jail, another…
Our prisons are getting worse under Labour
Ever since Labour was elected, every time there has been another disaster in our jails, or another set of terrible…
Deng Chol Majek should never have been here
In July 2024, a Sudanese man named Deng Chol Majek entered the UK illegally, crossing the Channel in a small…
Asylum hotels aren’t the problem
This government knows that if it doesn’t turn the tide on migration it is destined for electoral oblivion. The Home…
Why was the West Midlands Police chief allowed to retire?
Even as he resigned, Craig Guildford couldn’t do the decent thing. Perhaps that’s no surprise. We have learned in recent…
The public are right: citizenship is a privilege, not a right
Keir Starmer is, in many ways, a remarkable prime minister. He is remarkably uncharismatic and remarkably unable to discern the…
Why London feels lawless
Mark Rowley, the head of the Metropolitan Police, has been discussing London’s crime rates. Rowley it seems, is eager to…
Tags for asylum seekers are a huge distraction
There’s a strange pattern in how the UK discusses policy, and once you notice it you realise it’s everywhere. What…
Could Alaa Abd el-Fattah have his British citizenship revoked?
It’s a difficult Monday for the Prime Minister. Shortly after Keir Starmer expressed his ‘delight’ that Egyptian dissident Alaa Abd…
Nigel Farage is right to go after civil servants who let in sex offenders
British civil servants have almost never faced real consequences for their failures. If Reform come to power, that might change.…
Britain shouldn’t rely on foreigners to guard our prisons
Shabana Mahmood’s plans to reduce migration hit a setback yesterday. It emerged that around 2,500 foreign national prison officers who…
The fiscal case for mass migration is being demolished
Perhaps because it’s the week before Christmas, the Migration Advisory Committee’s (MAC) latest annual report has attracted little attention. Many…
The anti-Muslim hate definition will be bad for free speech
After a long wait, the government’s Islamophobia definition has finally taken form. There has been plenty of criticism of the idea,…
The open borders crime scandal
On 10 May this year a 15-year-old girl was with friends near parkland on the outskirts of Leamington Spa. Shortly…
The evil of the grooming gangs is finally being exposed
It has now been six weeks since the inquiry into ‘Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse’ fell into chaos. Over…
Why won’t Lammy tell us about prisoners released by mistake?
It’s now over six weeks since Hadush Kebatu’s ‘release in error’ sparked a two day manhunt, and highlighted our prison…
Prisoners playing video games with their guards is no bad thing
Another week. Another video from within a prison. More words of outrage. This time it’s a video showing a prison…
