What kind of conservative, I asked myself, could support a full blown violent revolution?

The new media is, in essence, anything but new. It is an old dog and– as the saying goes – you can’t teach it new tricks. 

With reports of a 7% rise in domestic abuse cases during the first lockdown this year, it is clear that the hysteria-fuelled reaction to Covid-19 is eroding the fabric of British life.

It is not the economy versus lives, it is lives versus lives.

From using previous recordings of stadium ambience, a Frankenstein’s mixture of various sounds is hooked to a live broadcast, then a faceless figure watching the game tries to mimic the type of crowd noise to go with what they are seeing happen, during every moment, over the course of the entire game.

As Disraeli said, precedents are not dusty phrases but the representation of an embalmed principle that has been acted upon.

Education, along with most (if not all) other aspects of society, has been ravaged by the Government’s lockdowns. Standards have been slipping for decades, and are now in free fall.

In modern Britain, criminals are treated with more respect than the elderly.