Tag: Brexit

'Red Wall Toryism' was said to be more authoritarian, more economically statist and, somehow, gruffer, than its southern cousin. But this was a mistake; the 'Red Wall' is not a foreign country.

In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are the rejection of Shamima Begum's request to return to Britain, the cancellation of Dilbert and his creator Scott Adams, and the 'desecration' of the Quran.

Our political elites now see ‘ideology’ as a dirty word, preferring to focus on ‘competence’. What they really mean is there can be no dissent from the Left-wing orthodoxy, and the only battle is how to manage decline.

In this week’s episode of London Calling the talking points are the Autumn Statement, climate reparations, backsliding on Brexit, Trump’s Twitter reinstatement and season two of the White Lotus.

Simon Kuper's book about how a small group of 'Tory Toffs' who were at Oxford in the 1980s masterminded the Brexit project to reclaim their aristocratic birthright is highly entertaining, but not convincing.

Lockdowns don't work but Government is refusing to examine the evidence, says ex-Minister Lord Frost in a new interview, which covers Covid, Net Zero, free speech, the push towards globalism and more.

Philip Pilkington has written a good piece in UnHerd today in which he points out that lockdown – not Brexit – is to blame for the lack of drivers that is causing shortages of petrol and other goods.