Kiwis Sean Topham and Ben Guerin have emerged as two of the heroes of Boris Johnson’s victory. They came up with the social media campaign that included the infamous Boris Johnson ‘Love actually’ parody. They have been dubbed the ’24 hour meme machines’ and have been described as young
Watching the UK election and how it unfolded induced something of a longing to a return to the FPP system of voting. Whether it has appeal or not, what the UK election showed is that it is easier to get the desired result if enough people want it. It avoids
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Boris Johnson’s win is a warning to the National Party. Simon Bridges is more like Jeremy Corbyn than he is Boris Johnson. Parties only win when people like their leaders. No one liked Corbyn and no one likes Bridges. To clarify, they may like him as a person and
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World describes a future “World State” where children are inculcated with lessons on sex and class consciousness, where “erotic play between children” is a core component of their education. Huxley intended his work as satire, but in the Clown World of 2019, it’s becoming
Yet another one from the “Truth is Stranger Than Fiction” file. According to Radio Today “No introduction to the track was broadcast, or any other content discussing it to justify its context.” “In making a decision about the complaints, Ofcom considered the demographic of the station’s audience as set
Frederick Forsyth, a writer and author whose name you may be familiar with, writes a weekly opinion piece in the Express newspaper. The Express is available here in a weekly edition and there’s more reading in that than there is in a week’s worth of a local rag.
Robin Simcox PA Pundits – International Robin Simcox is the Margaret Thatcher Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. It was a matter of when, not if, the United Kingdom would be attacked by terrorists again. The when ended up being Friday. The perpetrator this time was British citizen Usman Khan, 28, who
After his trainwreck interview, you’d think Jeremy Corbyn would have acted to halt the over-riding impression he is a nasty little anti-Semite. YouGov has released a poll in the UK that suggests the problem for Labour is bigger than just having a Jew-hating leader. Loyal supporters
Britain seems to be belatedly waking up to the fact that it faces a critical choice in the next few weeks. The choice is between a divided, dysfunctional Tory party and a party of anti-Semitic left extremists led by the nastiest piece of work thrown up by British democracy
I have a friend who is a card-carrying Labour supporter. When she went through a divorce, a decade or so ago, she started dating men and had only one rule. She would not date anyone who was not a Labour voter. I thought it was a bit odd at
