Over the weekend I sat down to watch Hillbilly Elegy, the controversial film currently available on Netflix, expecting it to be terrible. The reviews are almost universally bad – scathingly bad – pointing to this true personal story of one man’s escape from poverty as wrong, wrong, wrong. I was Read more…
It was announced last week that the actor, Laurence Fox, and London Assembly Member, David Kurten, are launching new political parties. Mr Fox’s ‘Reclaim’ party, launched on the back of £5 million of donations, while Mr Kurten’s ‘Heritage Party’ is said to have attracted substantial investment too. That two political Read more…
The concept has been laughed off by some as a vanity project, yet it reflects the inability of the right-wing mainstream to produce a viable challenge to wokeness and identity politics. Actor and singer-songwriter Laurence Fox is forming a new political party. Fox, best known for his performance as Detective Hathaway on Lewis, Read more…
BY JAKE SCOTT President Reagan famously remarked that the most chilling words in the English language were, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”. I was broadly in favour of the lockdown measures at the beginning of this year, but now that they have turned us into a Read more…
BY HENRY HILL After a month and a bit of sweet freedom, the nation is gearing up for what looks increasingly like a return to lockdown in the months ahead. Whilst it’s unlikely to be the full-fat, don’t-leave-your-home version we saw in the first few weeks, the grim messaging from Read more…
BY JIM BARRINGTON In the minds of many people, certain BBC presenters have overstepped the mark on numerous occasions. Social media has allowed such individuals to express personal opinions and, because of their high profiles, gain considerable numbers of followers. Things, however, may be about to change. The BBC’s new Read more…
BY CHRIS ROSE Like him or loathe him, Tony Blair was the last Labour leader with sufficient charm to appeal to ordinary members of the public. Yes, his lines were often rehearsed, and there was a terrific glint-eyed cynicism to it all, but he had an easy manner which impressed Read more…
BY RAMSHA KHAN Barely a day goes by without an attempt by the woke left to cancel another person, event, or thing. J K Rowling. Rule Britannia. Charles Darwin. Our society and culture is under constant assault from people who don’t respect history, don’t respect freedom of speech and thought, Read more…
BY SERENA LIT It is a quintessential British bonding experience to enjoy a joke at the expense of our quasi-sometimes-maybe allies stationed across the English Channel. It has become a somewhat entrenched part of our national identity. Nevertheless, even the truly gallophobic among us couldn’t possibly sustain the argument that Read more…
BY SIR JOHN REDWOOD The BBC are their own worst opponents. Their recent cancellation of a couple of much loved old songs that are famous worldwide and have not before caused protests led many of their former BBC news/Radio 4 audience to anger or despair. They are so dominated by Read more…
BY HARRY WILKINSON The furore over the downgrading of predicted A Level grades has disguised a far more important issue. That is, what exactly are our students learning? The answer, according to the latest figures is increasingly Psychology, Sociology and Media Studies. On Monday, I posted what I had thought, Read more…
BY ETHAN THOBURN As the furlough scheme comes to an end this autumn, it is paramount that we get the economy back up and running, especially after it was announced that the British economy had shrunk, in terms of GDP, more than any other developed nation in the West. Boris Read more…
BY MO METCALF-FISHER From the title of this piece, you might be wondering what I mean by churches having an anti- social behaviour problem. It might be hard to imagine anyone wanting to carry out criminal damage at your local church; a place where many gather in prayer, reflect, exchange Read more…
BY DR ROB SUTTON An ageing population with an increasing disease burden, combined with ever more expensive treatments, continues to stretch funding for the NHS, where costs which have far outpaced income growth. For decades, governments have taken the same approach: throw more money at the problem and hope whoever wins the Read more…
BY EMMA WEBB Over the last few days Twitter has been awash with those wanting to point out what they see as hypocrisy of the ‘all lives matter’ crowd. #AllLivesMatter except for those crossing the channel in rubber dinghies, right? Unfortunately, with this kind of shallow point scoring rhetoric, what Read more…
BY CALVIN ROBINSON It’s outrageous and, therefore, to be expected. As of this month, the BBC will be charging over 75s the full cost of their licence fee. Who would have thought they’d stoop so low? Well, actually – many of us. As more and more people are coming to Read more…
BY SERENA LIT The growing intolerance of right-wing values at British schools and on university campuses is well-documented. Perhaps this is yet another problem imported from our American cousins, where the bias is so prominent there are now multiple groups campaigning to end it. Irrespective of the reason why educators Read more…
BY SERENA LIT August 1st was a date that women across this country have had marked in their calendars since big man Boris’ grand announcement that beauticians will be allowed to perform all services thereafter. The sense of euphoria many felt at this long overdue verdict has been incredibly short lived, Read more…
BY MAX YOUNG Any major crisis tests the major constituent parts of society – their ability to adapt, plan, maintain key functions, and emerge intact. Unfortunately for Britain, our public sector has failed this test across the board. Whitehall departments remain largely deserted as their infrastructure and services grind almost Read more…
BY LEO KEARSE I’m one of the UK’s few openly right wing comedians. I say “openly” because comedians are some of the most inherently right wing people I’ve met – they’re all self-starting Thatcherite entrepreneurs hustling for work in a free market, they all stuff cash under the mattress where Read more…