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The BBC Are Lying to You Again

The BBC Are Lying to You Again

There’s a reason my First Law of the Media is: Never Believe a Headline. Don’t just skim a legacy media headline and lede and think you’ve got the truth. Always read the whole article, because, too often, the headline is starkly opposite to what the article is

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A Crass Lockdown Tactic That Worked

David McGrogan brownstone.org David McGrogan is Associate Professor of Law at Northumbria Law School. Warning Long read. 2010 words. During the hot, wild spring of 2020, it seemed that Boris Johnson could barely open his mouth without saying something about the UK government’s intentions to “put its arms

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They Won’t Take ‘No’ for an Answer

They Won’t Take ‘No’ for an Answer

What is it about the left that they just won’t take “sod off” for an answer? Like tantrum-throwing toddlers, every time they’re told “No”, the left scream and yell, throw their toys and slam their doors, and pester and badger until they get their way. Because, bad parents

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Can’t Ship Them off Fast Enough

Can’t Ship Them off Fast Enough

Now, call me crazy, but if I was being persecuted so badly that I had to flee my country, I’d be happy to go anywhere I’d be safe. Strangely, though, millions of “migrants” — or what, in more honest times, we once called “illegal immigrants” — aren’t content with

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The Cheap Tartans of the British Isles

The Cheap Tartans of the British Isles

The Scottish National Party are a weird bunch. Which shouldn’t be a surprise, really: they are, as Theodore Dalrymple says, nationalists and socialists – national socialists, to coin a phrase. Which may explain their Euro-boner: the last lot of national socialists were also committed to founding a “United States of

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Don’t Say Her Name

Don’t Say Her Name

“I think within my lifetime I think it is a likelihood we will transition [to a republic]” Jacinda Ardern March 2018 Overseas media have a better grasp of Jacinda Ardern than our own bought and paid for NZ media. British columnist Sarah Vine, a writer for the Daily Mail since

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Miracle Baby Born Two Weeks after the Abortion Limit

Miracle Baby Born Two Weeks after the Abortion Limit

righttolife.org.uk A mum from Harrogate has given birth to her ‘miracle’ baby Ava while on holiday in Lanzarote, just two weeks after the abortion limit in the UK. Hairdresser Kim Ellis gave birth to her daughter three months early, at just 26 weeks’ gestation. Baby Ava weighed just

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Letter from the North

June 2nd, 2022. In glorious sunshine, the Jubilee celebrations started today, the only gloom being the performance of the New Zealand batsmen at Lords. The trooping of the colour on Horseguards Parade went off in spectacular fashion showing that the British are unsurpassed when it comes to organising state celebrations.

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The Lesser of Two Evils

righttolife.org.uk An abortion clinic in Birmingham has been found to be storing foetal remains in a utility room. An inspection was undertaken by the CQC into the abortion clinic in Sandwell, Birmingham, run by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), which is the UK’s largest abortion provider.

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Food for Thought

May 31st, 2022. Interesting facts were released in the UK today as we prepare for the stupendous Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. There are 16,000 street parties planned for Sunday 5 June. Hundreds of thousands of informal street lunches and picnics are scheduled (no, I don’t know the difference

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Lessons for New Zealand from the UK?

Information Opinion May 25th, 2022. The Sue Gray report into the shenanigans in Downing Street during the early days of Covid was presented to Boris Johnson today and was released to the public this morning, and the Prime Minister made a statement to the House at 12:30, after Prime

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UK Economy Going Down the Toilet

Information Opinion May 19th, 2022. I will start with my usual disclaimer about immigration advice. I am not an immigration/emigration advisor so nothing I say should be interpreted as giving advice. What I can do is provide facts and my interpretation of them as to how they affect me

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Some Things Even Inflation Cannot Touch

Some Things Even Inflation Cannot Touch

Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,

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