Lawrence Fox’s party is almost certainly going to fail
The tough intellectual battle that Fox advocates must happen within the Conservative Party. We cannot give up the fight and jump ship so easily.
No, Parliament has NOT taken back control of lockdown measures
Parliament may be able to vote on national lockdowns (‘wherever possible’), but it has no power when it comes to ‘local lockdowns’, which currently affect a quarter of all Brits. So much for ‘take back control’.
Labour’s ‘impossible coalition’
Starmer knows what steps to take to claim power, but he will always be drowned out by the social progressives who overran the party structure during the Blair and Corbyn years.
The case for green conservatism
To paint this issue only as a world problem does little to remedy it, rather it removes the responsibility from the individual.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death and what it means for 2020
With Mitt Romney joining the rest of the Republicans, bar two, in supporting filling the seat it seems they absolutely have the votes to confirm another justice
The new restrictions show what is truly driving the government’s response to coronavirus
‘Controlling information, spin doctoring scientific evidence and harnessing media to enforce ‘behavioural change,’ have become the ends not the means for our leadership class.’
Boris the PM versus Boris the columnist
‘This phoney government has no principles, and does not care about the implications of its actions’
Beware of the stool pigeons
‘In this “brave new normal” where we cannot meet with more than six people, and in some parts of the country, with members outside of our own household – beware of the stool pigeon.’