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Shades of the William Pulteney Era

Shades of the William Pulteney Era

Information Opinion In February 1746, various political heavyweights threw a massive tantrum with King George II. One thing led to another and the entire cabinet, including Prime Minister Pelham, resigned en masse. The King, scratching his head as to what he should do next, asked William Pulteney, Lord Bath, to

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Food Labels Showing You How Much Exercise You Need

Justin Roberts Anglia Ruskin University Henry Chung University of Essex Justin is an Associate Professor in Health and Exercise Nutrition with a focus on applied and health-based nutrition. Henry Chung’s background is in Sport & Exercise Sciences, where he completed his Sports Science BSc (2012 – 2015) and Sport &

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Knock, Knock – It’s the Thought Police

Knock, Knock – It’s the Thought Police

Now it is 1984 Knock knock at your front door It’s the suede/denim secret police The Dead Kennedys, “California Uber Alles” It’s taken nearly 40 years since the calendar ticked over to 1984, but we’re finally arriving at the panopticon authoritarian surveillance state that Orwell warned

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Comedy Greats Unite for Free Speech

Comedy Greats Unite for Free Speech

One of the few delights of social media is watching parody Twitter accounts dupe the gullible and perpetually outraged. Pioneer of the art form, Godfrey Elfwick, is long gone under the banhammer, but the likes of RPGuy continue the fine tradition of satirising the Twitter left so effectively that it’

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Knock Knock, Who’s There? It’s the Police

Knock Knock, Who’s There? It’s the Police

Ann Farmer mercatornet.com Ann Farmer, mother of three, grandmother of five and permanently disabled, is based in Woodford Green, Essex. She is a poet, illustrator, writer and pro-life feminist devoted to defending the natural family and the weakest in society from abortion and euthanasia. She has published a number

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Sounds Like a Social Credit Score to Me

Peter Imanuelsen petersweden.substack.com Do you remember when people were called crazy conspiracy theorists for suggesting that we were heading in the direction of social credit scores? Surely that could never happen in free Western democratic countries, right? Just like we would never have police patrolling the streets and

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Where Did He Go Wrong?

Where Did He Go Wrong?

Every day, I breathe a sigh of relief that our kids made it through 12 years of public education and, in one case, a university degree, without being brainwashed into climate’n’gender zealotry. You can say that the fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree, but I wouldn’

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The Thin Blue Ransom Note

The Thin Blue Ransom Note

The police are supposed to be the thin blue line that stands between law-abiding citizens and criminal anarchy. In Australia, though, it’s become the thin blue protection racket standing between the Establishment Left and anyone who dares challenge them. In Wellington, too, police filmed themselves exchanging triumphant high-fives after

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Teacher Sacked for Backing Parents Rights

Teacher Sacked for Backing Parents Rights

As reported recently on the BFD, an Irish teacher has been sentenced to jail in a dispute over “preferred pronouns”. This is the sort of brutal authoritarianism that Jordan Peterson tried to warn us would inevitably follow in the wake of enforced “pronoun” speech. Now, another victim is feeling the

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Feel the Vibrant, Diverse Cultural Tapestry!

Feel the Vibrant, Diverse Cultural Tapestry!

Once again, Britain is experiencing the vibrant tapestry of diversity that is capital-M Multiculturalism. This time, it’s not organised gangs of Pakistani Muslims perpetrating industrial-scale rape of white and Sikh girls — and getting away with it for years, thanks to the willful blindness of “racially sensitive” officials. It’s

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NHS Cardiologist’s Call to Stop the Vax

NHS Cardiologist’s Call to Stop the Vax

NZDSOS Renowned British cardiologist, evidence-based Medicine academic and strong vaccine proponent, Dr Aseem Malhotra is calling for the suspension of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine rollout following the publication of his latest research paper. Dr Malhotra has recently released peer-reviewed papers in the Journal of Insulin Resistance. The two- part document

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World’s Largest Trial in the UK

Kontrast.at scoop.me The social democratic magazine Kontrast.at covers current political events, both in Austria and in the rest of the world. We view society, state and economy from a progressive, emancipatory point of view. Kontrast casts the gaze of social justice on the world. The world’s

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This Is What ‘Gender Neutral’ Means

This Is What ‘Gender Neutral’ Means

Apparently nobody ever explained to Charlotte Kirby of Cambridge what “unisex” means. The British event manager was, she says, shocked — shocked! — when she used a unisex change room in an outlet of fashion retailer Primark, and two men walked in. The event manager, 25, took to her TikTok @charlottemkirby to

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The Queen Encouraged Dialogue between Different Faiths

Joanne M. Pierce mercatornet.com Joanne Pierce is a professor emerita in the Department of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, in Massachusetts. Her research interests include liturgical studies, medieval Christianity, ritual studies, ecumenical theology, theology and speculative/science fiction. Thousands of Christian cathedrals and churches rang

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Who Wants to Be a Republic, Now?

Who Wants to Be a Republic, Now?

It would take a heart of stone not to have been moved by Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral. Even my son, who recently shrugged at the fuss over the monarch’s death, because “it’s such an outdated system”, sat glued to the ceremony for hours. From the touching personal

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The Sins of Phillip Schofield

The Sins of Phillip Schofield

Jack thecommoner.substack.com As many late-80s babies like me who grew up watching 90s children’s television will surely relate, Phillip Schofield is a face ingrained upon our early childhood memory. Paired with the ever-present Gordon the Gopher on BBC’s Going Live! between 1987 and 1993, the fresh-faced

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