BY MO METCALF-FISHER Wanting to slash the carbon footprint is laudable. However, the recent war on meat on UK campuses- sparked at first by Cambridge University and most recently, Goldsmiths University in London, is entirely the wrong approach and sets a dangerous precedent for others to follow. Banning beef and Read more…
BY CHARLOTTE GILL This week the UK had something of a shock when it was revealed that the economy had grown at its fastest pace in six months. It shouldn’t be a big surprise that Britain is doing well, of course, as we have one of the most successful economies Read more…
BY SUSAN HALL What’s your favourite argument for why we should ignore 2016’s EU Referendum? Is it the delightful claim that “Lots of Leave voters will have died by now”? Or perhaps the smug “People didn’t know what they were voting for”? How about “People didn’t vote to be poorer”? Read more…
BY TOM HARWOOD Former-Chancellor Philip Hammond took to Twitter today to lambast his old Cabinet colleagues and allege that their party is somehow being taken over by “entryists” and an “extreme right-wing faction”. He goes on to claim that “this is not the party I joined.” This is a particularly Read more…
BY TIM DAWSON They don’t get it. They just do not get it. Three years of indolence, chicanery, frustration and delay. Three years of foot-dragging, consternation and collaboration. Hammond. Grieve. Rudd. The whole holier-than-though, self-indulgent, anti-British, anti-Democratic, sopping Wet, totally untrustworthy, arrogant-as-hell morass – the British public are absolutely sick Read more…
Britain’s membership of the EU has caused many constitutional anomalies, the most recent being the legislature’s usurpation of the executive power of government. The Benn-Burt Bill passed by Parliament is a power grab by the legislature. It compels the Prime Minister to seek an extension of our membership of the Read more…
BY JOEL RODRIGUES A total of 21 Conservative MPs defied the government’s warning Wednesday night that the vote was a confidence issue, and any deviation from the party whip would result in immediate withdrawal of it. Many believed that it was an empty threat – after all, the government had Read more…
BY IAIN DUNCAN SMITH, DAVID CAMPBELL BANNERMAN, MARTIN HOWE QC, JON MOYNIHAN AND REBECCA RYAN It was supposed to be a “gotcha” moment. During the Conservative leadership election, Andrew Neil sought to ambush Boris Johnson, challenging him on his claim that a World Trade Organisation (WTO) deal called GATT Article Read more…
BY TIM DAWSON The mask has slipped. Behold, the true face of Remain Tantrums. Protests. Legal challenges. Tears. Even death threats. The mask has well and truly come off the Remain campaign. And what lurks beneath is worse than many of us imagined. The true face of Remain – smug, Read more…
BY ALICIA KEARNS To be a citizen of a country is to recognise and respect the rights and responsibilities you have a constituent member. It is a privilege to hold British citizenship, and to enjoy its protections. If you unlawfully harm your community, you will be sentenced and hopefully rehabilitated. Read more…
BY MOLLY GILES If the Conservative Party is able to come out of the Brexit situation in tact, a political renaissance will be necessary. The general public will be crying out for an entirely fresh, new politics. This will entail significant reform: greater grassroots power and broader participation in political Read more…
BY TIM DAWSON Dominic Grieve was close to tears. With voice cracking, he rambled to Nicky Campbell on Radio 5 Live this morning about this “unconstitutional” Conservative Prime Minister. He sounded on the verge of a breakdown. It was half funny, half tragic. Ok, more 70:30. Across twitter, the celebrity Read more…
BY JIM BARRINGTON When Jeremy Hunt said, during the Conservative leadership contest, that he would vote in favour of repealing the Hunting Act, no doubt there was a collective sigh of despair from some Tory MPs and activists. It wasn’t so much that they had changed their minds about hunting, Read more…
BY CHARLOTTE GILL Here we go again. In a speech yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn deployed the Left’s favourite two words whenever it wants to harm the opposition: “hard right”. Addressing a crowd in Corby, he proclaimed: “The Tories have lurched to the hard right under Boris Johnson, Britain’s Trump, the fake Read more…
BY KEITH PRINCE Last Tuesday I visited the Olympic Park to partake in an illegal activity. Actually, to be strictly accurate, it’s an activity that was and is legal within the park but that is currently banned on every public road in the UK. I am referring to riding on Read more…
BY REBECCA RYAN A Government of National Unity. A government of all the talents. God help us. Just the candidates tipped for leading this government are enough to make the blood run cold. Caroline Lucas. Heidi Allen. Jeremy Corbyn. They may as well go the whole hog and stick Greta Read more…
BY REBECCA RYAN It’s the latest absurd measure. At Theresa May’s initiative, it was announced that all police officers would need to have a degree, or to study for one during their first years of training. The move will add a new set of academic requirements to police training, and Read more…
BY SUSAN HALL What does business want from the Mayor of London? There are two schools of thought. If you subscribe to the Reaganite view that “the most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help”, then you might hope for a Read more…
Whilst the Remain establishment have been doing everything they can to frustrate Brexit, our financial contribution to the EU continues to go up. New government figures released yesterday show the UK’s payments to Brussels have risen by an eye-popping 20.4%. The figures, which were tucked away on page 23 of Read more…