Are We All Whigs Now?
28 September 2024
In his new memoir, Boris Johnson admits the lockdowns he imposed may not have worked, given the similarity in the ebb and flow of the disease around the world, irrespective of the different restrictions imposed.
It's handbags at dawn between Elon Musk and Keir Starmer’s Labour Government, says Jawad Iqbal. It's a funny way of showing Britain is "open for business".
Treasury officials are warning that a Labour tax rise on 'non-doms', far from raising more cash, will cost money instead. The Government is on a steep learning curve that punishing taxes don’t work, says Matthew Lynn.
Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty has finally conceded "we overdid it" on Covid restrictions. So why haven’t many of the architects of this disaster been held accountable, asks Isabel Oakeshott.
The Government's Faith Minister Lord Khan has finally admitted that Labour's definition of 'Islamophobia' is at odds with the Equality Act. But there are many more problems with it than that, says Tim Dieppe.
Are we are all Whigs now, asks Prof James Alexander. "If any historical time looks like ours it is the Whig era of Walpole, when the entire system was tied up in 'establishments' and nets of corruption."
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘crises’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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