March 5th 2023. The latest polls were released last week, showing Labour with 50% support from those polled and 22% supporting the Conservatives. Bringing up the rear were the Liberals (9%), Reform (7%) which is formed from the Brexit movement, Green 6%, Scottish Nationalist 4%. As preferred Prime Minister, Keir
Uta Staiger Executive Director, UCL European Institute UCL For years, the EU-UK relationship has been bruised by the seemingly impossible puzzle of post-Brexit, Northern Ireland trade arrangements. Yet, after just four months of talks led by Rishi Sunak’s government, we now have a new deal. The “Windsor framework” was
Daniella McCahey Assistant Professor of History Texas Tech University When the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition ended on March 2, 1958, it marked what many called the last great adventure possible on Earth: an overland crossing of the Antarctic continent. Sixty-five years later, it’s remembered in New Zealand chiefly for Sir
It’s a time-honoured tradition for oldies to look down on the Yoof of Today, but it’s rarely anything more than geriatric grousing. Most recently, it’s been the fashion for elderly Boomers to sneer at the “snowflake generation”, and especially their ovine obedience to “progressive” nostrums about everything,
Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk Last week, the BBC aired an episode of the investigative documentary series, Panorama, titled ‘Crisis Pregnancy Centres Uncovered’, which investigated pregnancy centres that offer advice and support to pregnant women facing unplanned pregnancies. The episode of Panorama followed an episode of EastEnders that
Alex Klaushofer mercatornet.com Alex Klaushofer is an author and journalist who has written extensively on social affairs, religion and politics in Britain and Middle East. She writes on Substack at Ways of Seeing. Something strange is happening in the United Kingdom. An innocuous idea, not particularly original and not
Just lie back and think of diversity, girls. That’s the obvious message to Western women from government, media, police, civil service and even schools. The rights of women to be safe and unmolested take a very, very distant back seat to the rights of certain men to brutalise women
Is “progressivism” a pathology? After all, “progressives” are nothing if not convinced of their own moral unimpeachability. Yet, as the authors of Pathological Altruism argued, people who are utterly convinced that they are “doing good” can in fact be doing a great deal of harm. Orwell was onto these self-righteous
Many moons ago, I wrote that Jacinda Ardern, Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron were the Hermione, Harry and Ron of globalism. Why Is It, When Something Happens, It Is Always You Three? I pondered whom would be the first of the three to be expelled, as it were. Well, we
Murray Leith Professor of Political Science University of the West of Scotland When Jacinda Ardern resigned as New Zealand’s prime minister a few weeks ago, Nicola Sturgeon assured voters she still had plenty left in the tank. Yet apparently, Scotland’s first minister had been thinking about her own
Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk Speaking at a meeting in the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, hosted by the Republic of Korea Government’s Ministry of Reunification, a British member of the House of Lords said “without (the) right to life…all other rights are worthless”
Veteran journalist Glenn Greenwald recently took aim at the current establishment mania over “disinformation”. Anyone, Greenwald said, “who claims to be: a ‘disinformation expert’, an ‘anti-extremist expert’, an ‘online safety expert’ is a fraud”. Greenwald probably hasn’t heard of the likes of Siouxsie Wiles, Kate Hannah or Byron Clark,
There’s a wonderful exchange in the Coen brothers’ classic O Brother, Where Art Thou, when the trio of escaped convicts seek shelter with one’s brother. Who promptly betrays them to the police. But Pete Hogwallop (John Turturro) is less enraged by his brother’s betrayal, than by the
February 15th 2023. Nicola Sturgeon resigned today as First Minister of Scotland. The little piece below is suddenly doing the rounds! Nicola Sturgeon resigned at 11 am today and gave her main reason as burnout. Meanwhile, an SNP official told Politico: ‘It’s a Jacinda Ardern moment. Better to leave
Last Thursday my inlaws and the rest of the ‘far now’ – turned up at our house. They heard the warnings of Cyclone Gabrielle bearing down on them, decided “stuff this” and fled the Hokianga for more pleasant surroundings: Taieri Plains, the “Capitalist Command Centre” (ie: my house) and normal people.
Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk A priest has been charged for breaching buffer zone rules by praying silently and holding a sign with the words “praying for freedom of speech” near a closed abortion clinic in Birmingham. He also faces a further charge for an “Unborn Lives Matter”
