News Round-Up
15 April 2025
by Toby Young
Revealed: Why UK Electricity Costs So Much
15 April 2025
by Sallust
A housing officer was sacked for being a Reform UK candidate and reposting a Daily Telegraph cartoon after being told Reform’s policies on immigration and Net Zero were "in direct conflict" with his employer's "values".
"Data is the absolute truth," said Nigel Farage recently. "Oh Nige," says Joanna Gray, "don’t be so gullible." Data is like the kitchen drawer: an incoherent mass of things that seemed useful. What we need are principles.
We have reached a point of madness where Left-wingers in the West now seem to support groups, however barbaric, to signal their contempt for our civilisation, says Professor Doug Stokes in the Mail.
A new paper from the Adam Smith Institute think-tank has revealed that 'woke' public procurement rules are costing taxpayers billions, and stifling economic growth.
UCL has written a new 'vision and mission' statement that reads as if it was written not by an intelligent human being, but by a bot programmed to string together fashionable words in sequence.
Ed West has written a searing criticism of the modern obsession with 'values' and the twee ephemera of popular culture as the supposed foundation of British identity.
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