Laurie Wastell

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…