News Round-Up
15 April 2025
by Toby Young
Revealed: Why UK Electricity Costs So Much
15 April 2025
by Sallust
What happened in Britain during the years 2018-24 wasn’t the philosophical defeat of 'Toryism'. It was a Battle Royal with the Blob that the British Right fought and lost, decisively, says J. Sorel.
Keir Starmer’s planned VAT raid on private schools is likely to breach human rights law because it singles out private education for the levy, a senior lawyer has said. The Left gets entangled in its own Blob.
Ever wondered why politicians seem so out of touch? Ben Pile explores how the flawed advice of behavioural scientists has been followed religiously by hyper-liberal leaders, fuelling populist movements worldwide.
A coup d’état, as originally defined, is a coup inflicted by the state on the people. This makes COVID-19 a coup d’état, says Dr James Alexander. Modern politics could be considered death by a thousand coups.
"We need to find ways to suppress Douglas Murray and Joe Rogan": former civil servant Anna Stanley exposes the truth about what UK civil servants are taught in counter-terrorism courses.
Ben Pile predicts that in 2024 Net Zero scepticism is going to grow, threatening the cross-party Westminster consensus on climate policy.
Professor James Alexander does his best to work out what a Calvinist Scottish KC meant when she denounced Boris’s Governemnt for not engaging in 'Hegelian decision-making' and concludes it was just highfalutin nonsense.
Civil service lawyers have been accused of trying to scupper Kemi Badenoch's schools trans guidance following a leak which claimed the guidance has a "high risk of successful legal challenge".
Ian Price bemoans the grip of 'the blob' on U.K. Government departments, highlighting ministers futilely grappling with controlling civil servants and the stark divide between public opinion and official actions.
A civil servant at the Home Office has said that his colleagues would "ring the mental health services to check in on my sanity" if he were ever to propose ways of cutting immigration.
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