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Why do Lib Dems want to crack down on smoking but legalise cannabis?
Whether it is tuition fees or local development, the Lib Dems are generally not known for their consistency. Trust me,…
Sunak targets Britain’s ‘sick note culture’
Rishi Sunak has returned to one of his pet bugbears: getting the unemployed back into work. His speech to the…
Rayner’s eldest child was registered at husband’s home
It’s been a busy time for police investigations across the country and Manchester is no exception. As the curious case…
MPs need a proper HR service
The most damning bit of the lurid Mark Menzies case is that the Conservatives had been aware of the allegations…
Peter Murrell’s re-arrest has plunged the SNP into crisis
There is what can only be described as a mood of despair in SNP circles following the news that the…
Will Sunak’s welfare reforms get more people back into work?
Chancellor Rishi Sunak had days to design the furlough scheme. Once lockdown became mandatory in spring 2020, it was a…
Iran should be banned from the Paris Olympics
Few would disagree with Ben Wallace’s description of Iran as a ‘bully’. The former defence secretary made his comments earlier…
Israel launches retaliatory strike against Iran
Israel conducted missile strikes against Iran on Thursday night, as confirmed by a senior American military official to NPR. Explosions in…
Why did the Sandyford clinic delay pausing puberty blockers?
The decision by Glasgow’s Sandyford gender clinic to pause the prescription of puberty blockers to children is good news for…
The SNP’s net zero hypocrisy
The Scottish nationalists are no stranger to hypocrisy, as their latest U-turn shows. For on Thursday afternoon the Yousaf regime…
Why the smoking ban exposes the ‘right side of history’ delusion
As a conservative non-smoker who in his youth was a libertarian twenty-a-day man, I can see both sides of the…
Russia is failing to undermine German morale on Ukraine
The news that German police have arrested two alleged Russian spies in Bavaria has understandably raised some alarm bells in…
Biden bookies’ 2024 favorite for first time in months
The betting market often provides different insights from traditional polling. While most polls presently have Donald Trump with a slight…
Nicola Sturgeon’s husband charged in SNP police probe
Peter Murrell, former chief executive of the SNP, has tonight been charged with embezzling money from his party. Murrell, the…
Why Giorgia Meloni is taking on Alfa Romeo
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s crusade to defend Italian excellence from the destructive side of globalisation has won a small…
Why did Swedish conservatives relax gender-change laws?
In the 2010s the main political dynamic inside western societies could be boiled down to simple left and right. Figures…
Is North Korea developing biological weapons?
The threat North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme poses to the world is well known. But as the hermit kingdom actively…
How NatCon Brussels was saved from censorship
When I was first scheduled to speak at this year’s National Conservatism conference (NatCon) in Brussels, I expected it to…
What the Mark Menzies scandal means for the Tories
You’ve got to feel for Rishi Sunak. He spends his days slaving around the clock to shave half a percentage…
Humza Yousaf could never realise Sturgeon’s fantasy climate plans
It was Cop26 in Glasgow and Nicola Sturgeon was in her element, posing for selfies with Greta Thunberg, David Attenborough…
Prince Harry ditches UK as primary residence
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Queen of Privacy never manage to keep out of the news for too…
Labour should think twice before taxing pensioners
Labour, according to Rachel Reeves, is now the party of low taxes. She has said she won’t raise income tax,…
It’s no surprise the SNP’s climate change law has failed
When Nicola Sturgeon unveiled the SNP’s climate change pledge in 2019, the First Minister boasted that Scotland had the ‘most…
Europe’s coffee houses are in trouble
There’s bad news for coffee fans: the price of your favourite beverage – which has already rocketed in recent years…
We need more Kemi Badenochs
On Tuesday, parliament voted for the first time on legislation to begin the phasing out of smoking (not just cigarettes,…
