BY JAMES BICKERTON It is, I regret to say, entirely plausible that in a little over one week Jeremy Corbyn will be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Should our country be led by a man who rarely met a terror group he wouldn’t befriend, nor an anti-Semite he declined Read more…
BY CHARLOTTE GILL Last week, Ucas released some fairly shocking statistics. But these went largely unacknowledged by the media. The admissions service announced that 49 percent of 18-year-olds were given a university place in 2019 despite having grades lower than the advertised requirements. Ucas also said that a record 541,000 Read more…
BY TOM HARWOOD The Labour Party has been more shameless than usual with their healthscare lies this election. Far beyond any figure exaggeration or dodgy bar chart, their scaremongering is a new level of political dishonesty – one that lacks even a scintilla of truth behind it. After spending the Read more…
BY TIM DAWSON Hugh Grant is doing it again. Fresh from speaking out against Labour anti-semitism, he was back on the campaign trail, pitching up in Woodford Green to campaign for Faiza Shaheen. Perhaps I’d missed his conversion to Marxism – I thought the only red activity he concerned himself Read more…
BY SUSAN HALL What is the bare minimum we might expect from a potential Prime Minister? A fairly low bar is that any potential Prime Minister should love the country that they aspire to lead. Every single leader of a major UK political Party has, to the best of my Read more…
BY TOM HARWOOD Britain’s broadcasting landscape is broken. The small number of channels that hold a throttling oligopoly over the airwaves have successfully limited authoritative voices to a narrow, left wing, ideological range. The three or four major players are at best left-liberal and at worst nakedly socialist, with no Read more…
BY TOBY YOUNG I’m in the process of setting up a new organization to defend, promote and secure free speech so I’m interested in what the two main political parties have to say about it. No prizes for guessing which one comes out best. Let’s start with the Conservative manifesto. Read more…
BY TIM DAWSON In a way, what Corbyn and McDonnell have achieved is remarkable. When Jeremy Corbyn was elected, he vowed to fundamentally change the Labour Party. The old, moderate centre-left party which all of us had become used to would be entirely reformed. Centrists would be muzzled or removed. Read more…
BY HARRY PHIBBS Critics of the free market focus on claiming that while such policies might benefit the strong, healthy and rich the victims are the weak, the sick and poor. It is a system of “greed not need”, the “law of the jungle”, “the Devil take the hindmost”. The Read more…
BY SHABNAM NASIMI We saw two different worlds, or at least two different value systems when me and my family migrated to the UK from Afghanistan in 1991 – where the worlds most wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laden was in hiding. On one side, there was a welcoming British society, Read more…
BY JIM BARRINGTON “Conservatives set to ditch fox-hunting pledge in manifesto.” – the headline seemed to be a gift for animal rightists. It’s odd how a piece of legislation that curbs the natural actions of dogs is often referred to in the narrowest of terms. The Hunting Act generally prohibits Read more…
BY TIM DAWSON Labour’s manifesto has landed and it’s worse than we expected. As the BBC’s Laura Keunssberg noted yesterday, it feels like the political programme Corbyn has always wanted to offer. And that should scare everyone. It is worth reminding ourselves of the wing of the Labour Party Corbyn Read more…
BY CHARLOTTE GILL Let’s face it, over the last few years most of us have become sick to death of being lectured on politics by celebrities. From their awful sermons on climate change to feminism to Brexit, we’ve just had enough! But thankfully this week, an anti-woke hero the world Read more…
BY TED YARBROUGH The United Kingdom stands at a pivotal crossroads in its history. To one side is the path of freedom, led by Boris Johnson and the Conservatives. To the other is a dark journey into diminution and decay under Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party. The choices could Read more…
BY TOM HARWOOD Buoyed by hubris, the Labour Party has revealed its true deep red colours. Unlike the surprising lack of unadulterated Marxism from the unadulterated Marxists who wrote Labour’s 2017 offering, the party are now going all out on spending and nationalisation policies that would make Clement Attlee wince. Read more…
BY SHABNAM NASIMI As I watched the infamous interview between Piers Morgan and Ash Sarkar on Good Morning Britain that is being shared on Twitter, I felt anger and disappointment. What has become of the left-wing millennials who feel a such distaste for British national symbols? This Remembrance Sunday, we Read more…
BY MO METCALF-FISHER Another week, another attack on farming communities and freedom of choice. This time we head over to East Anglia. It was revealed that a tiny number of students at the University of East Anglia (UEA) had voted in their council meeting to ban beef on campus. I Read more…
BY SUSAN HALL David Gauke has made a huge mistake. Actually – scratch that – he has made at least six of them. In September he was wrong to argue (and to vote) to try and take ‘No Deal’ off the table. I wrote at the time that Boris Johnson Read more…
BY TOBY YOUNG Only 39 per cent of British university students who support Brexit say they would be comfortable expressing their views in class compared to 89 per cent of Remain-supporting students. That is one of many depressing findings made by two academics who’ve just published a report for Policy Read more…
BY TIM DAWSON “Jezza Corbz for the win!” scream Jeremy Corbyn’s white-walkers, as they wave their placards – literally, during his increasingly lousy personal appearances, or metaphorically online. “We will rise up!” The truth is, there is going to be no great rising up in this election – no hidden Read more…