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Laurie Wastell

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Labour’s shameful response to the Manchester Airport attack

31.07.2025 6

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The state will do anything but fix the migrant crisis

28.07.2025 7

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Essex Police / Two-tier policing has arrived in Epping

23.07.2025 3

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

20.07.2025 20

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The people of Epping are fed up of being ignored

19.07.2025 10

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Arrests over speech are the real danger, not Glastonbury lefties

29.06.2025 4

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Demographics is the new dividing line on the right

28.06.2025 20

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Lord Hermer and the political prosecution of Lucy Connolly

04.06.2025 4

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America is coming for Britain’s social media censors

30.05.2025 8

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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 4

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The state’s Southport narrative is crumbling

12.05.2025 3

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Justice / The punishment of Lucy Connolly

08.04.2025 10

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How Kemi Badenoch can stop being trounced on immigration

At yesterday Prime Minister’s Questions, for the second week running, Kemi Badenoch was savaged by Sir Keir Starmer on the key issue of...

12.12.2024 10

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Private Eye’s shameful attack on Allison Pearson

What is the purpose of Private Eye? I know it’s supposed to be some kind of anti-establishment satirical magazine, boldly holding power to account...

27.11.2024 4

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Don’t blame the police for our sinister free speech laws

The shocking police doorstepping of Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson last week has rightly sparked grave concern about the parlous state of...

19.11.2024 4

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Kemi Badenoch should stop being woke

The Tory leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch has long argued against the Labour party and the left’s ‘divisive agenda of identity politics’....

19.10.2024 7

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Brwa Shorsh and the failure of Britain’s asylum system

Postman Tadeusz Potoczek had completed his deliveries for the day. At around 3 p.m. on 3 February, the 60-year-old was returning from work via the...

14.10.2024 10

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Why the ‘two-tier Keir’ jibe isn’t going away

Popping champagne, skulking off to smoke a spliff and pledging to become a life-long Labour voter. Anyone concerned about criminal justice in...

15.09.2024 10

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The real reason Keir Starmer keeps forgetting he’s prime minister

When Sir Keir Starmer faced off against Rishi Sunak at the despatch box today, in the first Prime Minister’s Questions after the parliamentary...

04.09.2024 5

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