Laurie Wastell

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…

Private Eye’s shameful attack on Allison Pearson

28 November 2024 12:28 am

What is the purpose of Private Eye? I know it’s supposed to be some kind of anti-establishment satirical magazine, boldly holding power…

Don’t blame the police for our sinister free speech laws

19 November 2024 11:31 pm

The shocking police doorstepping of Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson last week has rightly sparked grave concern about the parlous state of freedom of speech…

Kemi Badenoch should stop being woke

19 October 2024 5:45 pm

The Tory leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch has long argued against the Labour party and the left’s ‘divisive agenda of identity…

Brwa Shorsh and the failure of Britain’s asylum system

15 October 2024 2:12 am

Postman Tadeusz Potoczek had completed his deliveries for the day. At around 3 p.m. on 3 February, the 60-year-old was…

Why the ‘two-tier Keir’ jibe isn’t going away

15 September 2024 4:00 pm

Popping champagne, skulking off to smoke a spliff and pledging to become a life-long Labour voter. Anyone concerned about criminal…

The real reason Keir Starmer keeps forgetting he’s prime minister

5 September 2024 3:44 am

When Sir Keir Starmer faced off against Rishi Sunak at the despatch box today, in the first Prime Minister’s Questions…

Keir Starmer will be the perfect part-time PM

3 July 2024 9:29 pm

It is perhaps unsurprising that Sir Keir Starmer’s admission that he may soon be our first part-time prime minister has been seized…

The Nigel Farage milkshaking is no laughing matter

6 June 2024 3:29 am

Emerging from a pub after his campaign launch in Clacton yesterday afternoon, Nigel Farage was milkshaked. A 25-year-old woman has been charged with assault by…

Free speech will be in peril under Labour

1 June 2024 4:30 pm

Threats to freedom of speech in Britain today typically stem from a combination of two ways of thinking. First, the…

Why we should defend Nathan Cofnas’s academic freedom

6 May 2024 4:00 pm

After a controversial blog post he made earlier this year, the professional career of Dr Nathan Cofnas, a Leverhulme early-career research…

The outrageous shutdown of NatCon Brussels

17 April 2024 3:53 am

Brussels A familiar refrain at any National Conservatism conference is that leftist elites are censorious, authoritarian and intolerant of free…

Kemi Badenoch’s diversity crusade doesn’t go far enough

23 March 2024 5:38 pm

This week, the equalities minister and business secretary Kemi Badenoch took aim at Britain’s woke bureaucracy. The government’s Inclusion at…

Labour’s ‘equalities’ dystopia

9 March 2024 5:30 pm

With Sir Keir Starmer creeping closer to No. 10 every day, attention is rightly being paid to the radicalism of…

The shamelessness of Hope not Hate

24 February 2024 7:33 pm

You would think that a group called ‘Hope not Hate’ would have a lot of important things to talk about…

How identity politics infiltrated the judiciary

20 February 2024 1:04 am

The ‘paraglider girls’ ruling last week has thrown long-standing questions about judicial impartiality in Britain into sharp relief. On Tuesday, three…

The problem with the ‘paraglider girls’ ruling

14 February 2024 10:17 pm

Yesterday at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, three women were convicted of terror offences for wearing clothes or carrying signs that appeared to…