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Reparations for Reform
This week Reform announced that they would halt visas for nationals of countries demanding slavery reparations from the UK. In response, a number of Commonwealth politicians claimed that attempting to "punish" countries seeking "justice" for slavery would "harm and isolate"…
Birds of a feather flock together
Last week the saga of Sino-British relations took yet another twist as The Telegraph revealed that Labour deliberately scuppered an investigation into two civil servants accused of spying for the Chinese Communist Party. Christopher Cash, 30, a former Parliamentary researcher,…
Illiberal Democrats
Ed Davey took to the stage at the Liberal Democrat conference yesterday, waxing lyrical about “British values” – citing tolerance, decency, the rule of law, and individual liberty. Yet this sermon on freedom comes in the very same week his party proposed dropping their…
Whitehall’s New Overlords: A Cabinet of Control
With the dust beginning to settle on the latest reshuffle, it’s time to take a closer look at our new—and not so new—overlords in the Whitehall bureaucracy. David Lammy – Deputy Prime Minister & Justice Secretary In David Lammy we now find the roles of Deputy PM and Justice…
Ethnicity and migration
Yesterday the Commons heard about the “collective failure” to address concerns about the ethnicity of grooming-gang members. Casey’s report states: “Child sexual exploitation is horrendous whoever commits it, but there have been enough convictions across the country of groups of…
The rallying cry of the fascist
Earlier this month, a group of Labour MPs—backed by "Labour Together"—publicly endorsed the introduction of a smartphone-based “BritCard.” On Saturday, reports indicated that the government, influenced by Starmer and Yvette Cooper, is “exploring” adopting the BritCard plan to…
Starmer's Brexit "deal"
First May, now Starmer. Whenever a Remainer strikes a "deal" with the EU, history shows the only winner is Brussels. As Boris was quick to tweet today, ‘T𝘸𝘰-𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘒𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭-𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘨𝘪𝘮𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘴.’ In…
The Workshy Pandemic
Taxation is theft. As Libertarians, we knew that the moment income tax or NI “contributions” were taken out of our first pay packets. There has however, at times, been some sense of “we’re all in it together,” a degree of trauma-bonding knowing that our neighbours and colleagues…