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Laurie Wastell

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Multicultural Britain is becoming harder to defend

‘Britain’s most precious asset is our diverse and cohesive democracy’, trilled the opening of a government social cohesion plan just two years...

11.03.2026 10

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Why the Equality Act has to go

If the Equality Act 2010 made discrimination illegal, then why we have seen the rise of persistent and widespread discrimination against white males...

19.02.2026 30

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The public keep being kept in the dark about asylum crime

28.01.2026 10

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The Blob doesn’t want the police to use data

21.01.2026 10

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Is Reform really becoming the Tory party 2.0?

13.01.2026 20

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Why weren’t the grooming gangs treated as race-hate crimes?

21.12.2025 30

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What the Blob doesn’t want you to know about ethnicity and crime

03.12.2025 10

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The Guardian’s Matthew Goodwin hit job doesn’t add up

14.11.2025 10

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The deluded liberalism of Michael Heseltine

31.10.2025 10

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Labour’s attack on Sarah Pochin reeks of desperation

27.10.2025 10

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The real reason Birmingham isn’t safe for Jews

20.10.2025 10

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Oxford / Students shouldn’t be arrested for speech 

18.10.2025 40

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Students shouldn’t be arrested for speech 

17.10.2025 7

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The Hamit Coskun appeal is a victory for free speech

10.10.2025 8

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Nigel Farage has a point about migrants eating swans

26.09.2025 7

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Labour is gunning for GB News

15.09.2025 10

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Labour can’t be trusted to protect free speech

04.09.2025 8

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Politics / What the Bell Hotel case reveals about two-tier Labour

30.08.2025 10

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What the Bell Hotel case reveals about two-tier Labour

29.08.2025 10

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Labour’s shameful response to the Manchester Airport attack

31.07.2025 10

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The state will do anything but fix the migrant crisis

28.07.2025 10

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Essex Police / Two-tier policing has arrived in Epping

23.07.2025 7

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Asylum protests / The people of Epping are fed up with being ignored

20.07.2025 10

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The people of Epping are fed up of being ignored

19.07.2025 9

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Arrests over speech are the real danger, not Glastonbury lefties

29.06.2025 6

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Demographics is the new dividing line on the right

28.06.2025 6

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Lord Hermer and the political prosecution of Lucy Connolly

04.06.2025 6

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America is coming for Britain’s social media censors

30.05.2025 9

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The public have a right to know about the Liverpool car suspect

27.05.2025 9

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How Labour ended up taking on the Boriswave

15.05.2025 5

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The state’s Southport narrative is crumbling

12.05.2025 4

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Justice / The punishment of Lucy Connolly

08.04.2025 10

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