Laurie Wastell

What the Blob doesn’t want you to know about ethnicity and crime

3 December 2025 5:31 pm

Should the police disclose the ethnicity and background of suspects in high-profile crimes, and how soon should they reveal this…

The Guardian’s Matthew Goodwin hit job doesn’t add up

14 November 2025 11:38 pm

It was only a matter of time before the Guardian went for Professor Matthew Goodwin. The honorary president of Reform’s new…

The deluded liberalism of Michael Heseltine

31 October 2025 11:17 pm

Michael Heseltine is making a bid to become the fresh new face of Remoanerism. Earlier this month ‘Hezza’ wowed the…

Labour’s attack on Sarah Pochin reeks of desperation

27 October 2025 6:07 pm

The wall-to-wall chorus of condemnation of Sarah Pochin’s remarks last week about woke advertising has been hysterical even by the…

The real reason Birmingham isn’t safe for Jews

20 October 2025 10:33 pm

The decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending their Europa League game against Aston Villa next month has…

Students shouldn’t be arrested for speech 

18 October 2025 12:03 am

‘Gaza, Gaza, make us proud, put the Zios in the ground’, Oxford student Samuel Williams appeared to chant at a…

The Hamit Coskun appeal is a victory for free speech

11 October 2025 2:08 am

The conviction of Hamit Coskun of a public order offence for burning a Quran has today been overturned by Southwark…

Of course the Kirk suspect is a far-leftist

18 September 2025 2:34 am

Why was Charlie Kirk murdered? After the horrifying killing of the right-wing activist last week, the focus of American law enforcement and the world’s media has turned to the political leanings and…

Labour is gunning for GB News

15 September 2025 10:37 pm

GB News has had a good summer. Buoyed by a summer of small boat crossings and immigration protests and arrests…

Labour can’t be trusted to protect free speech

4 September 2025 9:16 pm

The outrageous arrest of Graham Linehan this week seems almost designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the British government. Just…

What the Bell Hotel case reveals about two-tier Labour

29 August 2025 9:42 pm

It’s a mark of the absurd legalism of Britain’s political system that after a month of fierce protests and years…

Labour’s shameful response to the Manchester Airport attack

31 July 2025 8:18 pm

On Wednesday at Liverpool Crown Court, Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, one of the two brothers accused of the Manchester Airport attack…

The UK censorship files: Jim Jordan’s crusade against Britain

31 July 2025 2:47 am

The British Empire may be gone, but there is one area where the UK has not lost its global ambitions:…

The state will do anything but fix the migrant crisis

28 July 2025 4:00 pm

Migrant hotel protests are erupting across the country, as ‘tinderbox’ Britain catches fire. What began with a series of protests…

Two-tier policing has arrived in Epping

24 July 2025 3:13 am

When it comes to protests against immigration and asylum hotels, accusations of two-tier policing are never far away. This week…

The people of Epping are fed up with being ignored

19 July 2025 6:30 pm

‘We are facing a long, hot summer’, warned a report on social cohesion on Tuesday, ‘with a powder keg of…

Bob Vylan was grotesque, but arrest would be wrong

30 June 2025 5:17 am

It is with some measure of irritation, I must confess, that I am drawn away from this balmy weekend to discuss the idiotic…

Demographics is the new dividing line on the right

28 June 2025 4:00 pm

It’s an ominous time for a state-of-the-nation conference. Each week, the shores we defended against Hitler, Napoleon and the Spanish…

Lord Hermer and the political prosecution of Lucy Connolly

4 June 2025 11:50 pm

Was the prosecution of Lucy Connolly in the public interest? That is the question now being asked of the embattled Attorney…

America is coming for Britain’s social media censors

30 May 2025 4:00 pm

In 2021, after the barbaric Islamist murder of Sir David Amess MP, the response of Britain’s political class was as…

The public have a right to know about the Liverpool car suspect

27 May 2025 4:37 pm

A 53-year-old man has been arrested after a car ploughed into a crowd of Liverpool supporters during their Premier League trophy parade…

How Labour ended up taking on the Boriswave

15 May 2025 9:28 pm

Sir Keir Starmer, remarkably, has launched an immigration crackdown. Britain risks becoming an ‘island of strangers’ after the Tory ‘one-nation…

The state’s Southport narrative is crumbling

13 May 2025 1:32 am

What really caused the countrywide unrest after the Southport massacre last summer? Last week, a report by His Majesty’s Inspectorate…

The punishment of Lucy Connolly

8 April 2025 4:00 pm

The shocking case of Lucy Connolly is becoming a cause célèbre. In October, the Northampton childminder and wife of a…

Why Kemi Badenoch keeps being trounced on immigration

12 December 2024 10:41 pm

At yesterday Prime Minister’s Questions, for the second week running, Kemi Badenoch was savaged by Sir Keir Starmer on the…