During times of crisis in Britain the Prime Minister and senior officials – police, military, and senior civil servants – meet in what is known as COBR, the cabinet office briefing room; popularly known as Cobra (as in the snake). Why they require such a silly acronym rather than simply saying “cabinet
Racism, Thomas Sowell observes, is not quite dead. That’s because certain people desperately need to keep it alive. Politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists’, are keeping racism (so-called) “on life support”, because a problem solved is an existential
Ann Farmer 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 of
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Britain’s Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for the abolition of the unelected House of Lords. From what I can discern this has attracted widespread support, not that Starmer needs it as his Party will bolt home in the next election. The House
November 17th, 2022. The only chance the conservatives have electorally is if the electorate thinks that the measures are fair and the pain is shared. It is 2 budgets in one, 1 for today’s issues and one for election year 2025. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) needed to
November 16th, 2022. Following on from the revelations in my last letter about Albanians entering the UK, the next day the BBC broadcast a detailed investigative piece about the Albanians’ criminal activity and the links to the “boat” people. It’s nice to see that the BFD got the news
Jess Gill fee.org Jess Gill is a fellow with FEE’s Henry Hazlitt Project for Educational Journalism. A resident of Manchester in the United Kingdom, she is the host and director of Reasoned UK where she makes daily videos on British politics from a libertarian perspective. She is also
righttolife.org.uk A teenage activist with Down’s syndrome from Berkshire is campaigning to change the abortion law in the UK after learning that a baby can be aborted up to birth if diagnosed with a disability. Millie Prelogar, 18, was “shocked” and “offended” when she discovered that, whilst
Patrick Barron mises.org Patrick Barron is a private consultant to the banking industry. He has taught an introductory course in Austrian economics for several years at the University of Iowa. He has also taught at the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin for over 25 years
Truth in advertising is officially forbidden in Britain, now, if it ‘offends’ someone. Which should be no surprise, really: Britain has banned and criminalised the truth for years. You’re not allowed to tell the truth about Islamic terror, and you’re certainly not allowed to tell the truth about
November 3rd 2022. I occasionally compare the UK to Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the looking glass. I can’t do that anymore as real life in the UK surpasses satire. We have had over 40,000 people arrive by boat on the Southern Coast. I hesitate to select
Joanne Nova cfact.org A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was
Paul Whiteley University of Essex Paul Whiteley obtained Masters and Doctoral degrees at the University of Essex. His first academic post was as lectureship in Politics and Statistics at Kingston Polytechnic in West London before moving to the University of Bristol as a lecturer in Politics where he stayed for
familyfirst.org.nz At last, some common sense based on biological facts. Medical experts at the UK’s National Health Service have now admitted that: “most children who think they are transgender are going through a ‘transient phase’ and will grow out of it.” Is this ‘transient phase’ the result
righttolife.org.uk Today marks the 55th anniversary of the Abortion Act receiving Royal Assent. Since then, a staggering 10,021,618* unborn babies have lost their lives to abortion across England, Wales and Scotland. In 2021, more than one baby was lost to abortion every two and a half
A few years ago I took part in an online discussion with various political junkies, mostly psephologists from British universities including a couple of well known ‘election experts’ from Nuffield College, Oxford, and I gained a certain reputation when I pointed out where they were mistaken. Typically for left wingers
