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Niall Gooch

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Farewell to alms / Can the social contract survive in Britain?

Farewell to alms /					 													 						Can the social contract survive in Britain?
19.03.2025 10

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Niall Gooch

Britain is failing Gen Z

11.02.2025 10

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Niall Gooch

How parliament has fallen

Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill passed its Second Reading in the Commons on Friday, which means that it is considerably...

02.12.2024 30

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Niall Gooch

Midlife vices / The rise of the reckless divorce columnist

It is now 20 years since I left university. Two pints in an evening and I feel groggy the next morning. My oldest child is in his last year at...

26.11.2024 4

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Niall Gooch

The cowardice of the Chris Kaba case

Since 2010, British police have shot dead 30 people. This works out at an average of around 2.1 people per year. In two consecutive years – 2012-13...

22.10.2024 10

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Niall Gooch

Stop trying to make ‘weird’ happen

Where American left-liberal rhetoric leads, British left-liberal rhetoric invariably follows. Hate speech, reparations, decolonisation, white...

04.09.2024 2

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Niall Gooch

The problem with the Downing Street cat

There is, reportedly, an official plan in place for the demise of Larry the Downing Street Cat, aka the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. Old...

02.09.2024 7

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Niall Gooch