Big Brother Lives Next Door
16 June 2025
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16 June 2025
by Toby Young
The Conservatives have told Keir Starmer that "it is not far-Right to stand up for the victims" of child sexual abuse and that "smearing people who raise those issues is exactly how this got covered up in the first place".
It isn't so much that the Tories are getting more popular as that Labour is getting less so. Which illustrates a more general predicament for the Tories and any other party that might have aspirations to government.
In an unexpected development, two men seen in CCTV footage attacking police officers at Manchester airport in July have been charged by the CPS and the police officers involved have all been cleared. Only took five months.
Elon Musk has backed Reform U.K. after meeting Nigel Farage at Donald Trump’s home in Florida, tweeting his agreement that "Britain needs Reform".
A civil servant said she felt forced to resign from her job at the Department of Work and Pensions after being investigated for sharing posts from Reform U.K. on her personal Facebook account.
Reform MPs have been banned from asking questions about the teenager accused of the Southport massacre in Parliament, Nigel Farage has revealed, amid concerns about the public being kept in the dark.
We have a situation where there are two major Right-leaning parties and they refuse to work together. Unfortunately, this is a recipe for disaster in the first-past-the-post electoral system.
Boris Johnson has warned the Conservatives not to merge with Reform U.K. as he laid out his vision for how they can revive their electoral fortunes.
The Tories are going down and many on the Left and Right are rejoicing. But Labour will be worse and this election must not be just about destruction, says Dr Hugh Willbourn: we should vote for what we believe in.
We should vote Conservative to keep out the Trots and their permanent revolution, says Peter Hitchens. No no no, that just ratifies the Uniparty, says Matt Goodwin. Professor James Alexander ponders the dilemma.
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