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The tyranny of Pride is coming to an end

June is a month most people anticipate for various reasons, it heralding the Isle of Wight Festival, the Summer Solstice and Wimbledon. It’s also a...

08.06.2026 10

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Money trouble / Putting wildlife on British banknotes ignores the elephant in the room

The issue of what images to put on new banknotes, and specifically of whom, has become one of the great battlegrounds of the culture wars in this...

06.06.2026 10

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Money trouble / Putting wildlife on British banknotes ignores the elephant in the room

The issue of what images to put on new banknotes, and specifically of whom, has become one of the great battlegrounds of the culture wars in this...

06.06.2026 10

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Patrick West

Putting wildlife on British banknotes ignores the elephant in the room

The issue of what images to put on new banknotes, and specifically of whom, has become one of the great battlegrounds of the culture wars in this...

06.06.2026 10

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What’s the real reason Nigel Farage has never been on Desert Island Discs?

Long gone is the time, towards the end of the last decade, when we all laughed off ‘safe spaces’ as the latest, neurotic fad confined to...

01.06.2026 9

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Put Orwell back on the syllabus!

It’s been an unrelenting dynamic of hyperliberalism that when it comes to the teaching of history and literature, it’s imperative that the works...

30.05.2026 10

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Politics / You don’t need AI to tell you if an asylum seeker is lying

How can you tell when an asylum seeker professing to be child is lying? Often, it’s because he has crow’s feet, a receding hair-line and a beard....

30.05.2026 10

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You don’t need AI to tell you if an asylum seeker is lying

How can you tell when an asylum seeker professing to be child is lying? Often, it’s because he has crow’s feet, a receding hair-line and a beard....

29.05.2026 20

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Q Manivannan is perfect for the modern Green party

A whole raft of new terminology has emerged since the Great Awokening ten years ago. Much of it suggests that politics has become increasingly...

26.05.2026 10

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The irony of the woke war on GCSE French

Not content to degrade and mangle the English language in their mission to make it conform to their progressive ideology, the forces of...

11.05.2026 10

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Reform can thank Starmer for its success

The foremost question Labour party members should be asking themselves this morning, following yesterday’s predicted disastrous showing in the...

08.05.2026 20

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It’s hardly surprising so many drivers are traffic light dodgers

The signs that civic society in this country is disintegrating grow more apparent by the week. In a year which has witnessed the arrival in earnest of...

05.05.2026 10

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Mental health is an inauthentic crisis

When it reaches the stage when everyone in the entire country is diagnosed as having mental health problems, will we have to accept that being...

02.05.2026 20

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Mental health is an inauthentic crisis

When it reaches the stage when everyone in the entire country is diagnosed as having mental health problems, will we have to accept that being...

02.05.2026 10

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Finland’s sad secret to happiness

In recent years it’s become a hackneyed truism that Nordic nations have found the key to happiness. The Danes, who often take first place in global...

30.04.2026 20

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Finland’s sad secret to happiness

In recent years it’s become a hackneyed truism that Nordic nations have found the key to happiness. The Danes, who often take first place in global...

28.04.2026 20

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What the St George’s flag really stands for

Every year it’s the same old story, and it’s always inaugurated by the usual collection of technocratic mediocrities and simple-minded leftists....

24.04.2026 20

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The curious tale of the quiet Englishman who helped make Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant, who was born on 22 April 1722, is perhaps best known for two things: writing The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) – one of the most...

19.04.2026 30

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The Green Party is mad, bad and dangerous

Much has been written in recent days about the outlandish proposals and deplorable opinions of the Green Party candidates standing for the forthcoming...

18.04.2026 20

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Christopher Eccleston is right about young white men

It’s not often that actors talk sense or deviate from liberal-left orthodoxies when speaking on politics, so when they do so, we ought to take...

15.04.2026 20

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Why even Ferrari drivers are stealing petrol

It’s a long-standing and cherished belief of left-liberals that most theft is caused by poverty and desperation, and that a rise in prices will...

13.04.2026 20

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KCL / Why are our universities dumbing down?

It’s strange and ironic that higher education establishments in Britain, institutions which ostensibly exist to broaden minds and deepen thought,...

08.04.2026 20

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Why the Met police went soft on crime

After months, years and even decades of dismay about the state of law and order in this country, a leader of one of Britain’s most renowned...

03.04.2026 30

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The Labour party’s shameless self-interest

While many people have been dissecting the power struggles and growing fissures within the Labour party, it might instead be timely to concentrate on...

20.03.2026 30

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Smartphones are making us stupid

For some years now Private Eye’s ‘Dumb Britain’ section has been regaling its readers with examples of contestants giving ridiculous and...

17.03.2026 30

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Stop crying wolf about World War Three

You sometimes wonder if people who put together newspapers these days have ever heard the story about the boy who cried wolf. This was one of...

16.03.2026 30

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‘Blasphemous’ drawings and the myth of tolerance

It’s often assumed and frequently stated that the biggest threat to British society these days comes from cultures which are alien and inimical to...

12.03.2026 50

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Why do Britain's councils hate patriotism so much?

The war waged by those in authority on those who make overt displays of patriotism shows no sign of relenting. This campaign against Englishness and...

11.03.2026 30

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Who cares if Britain’s Eurovision entry has German lyrics?

What with the prospect of further resets with the European Union, and with British culture seemingly in a constant battle with those who would degrade...

09.03.2026 30

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The real reason Greens are gaining ground

It was only a matter of time before an ultra-progressive, hard-left party with a fondness for voguish identity politics, enthusiasm for...

06.03.2026 40

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Were fans wrong to boo the Ramadan fast-breaking footballers?

So much of what is commonly understood to mean multiculturalism has in truth been class warfare by other means. A great deal of it has entailed...

02.03.2026 30

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‘Family voting’ allegations cannot be ignored

If allegations of ‘family voting’ taking place at Thursday’s Gorton and Denton by-election prove substantiated, the incidents will not only mark...

28.02.2026 40

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What Esther Rantzen needs to know about ‘religious people’

In politics, there has always been an assumption held by atheists, humanists and many liberals in general that those of a modern, secular persuasion...

27.02.2026 20

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How Britain learnt to turn a blind eye to shariah

The more excitable and less well-educated elements of the liberal left are forever apt to observe that politics today resemble those of the 1930s,...

23.02.2026 150

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What Louis Theroux’s Netflix show won't tell you about the ‘Manosphere’

13.02.2026 20

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Would you be friends with a Reform voter?

11.02.2026 20

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Christianity / Why Gen Z is troubled by Jesus

08.02.2026 40

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Why Gen Z is troubled by Jesus

08.02.2026 40

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Keep out / The British countryside isn’t racist

03.02.2026 30

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Woke language obviously doesn't change the way we think

02.02.2026 50

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Woke TV / Stop shoehorning diversity into BBC dramas

31.01.2026 30

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Will the BBC stop shoehorning diversity into its drama?

31.01.2026 30

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Labour is the nasty party now

30.01.2026 20

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Will the new Mock the Week focus on being funny?

14.01.2026 40

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Why are teachers so obsessed with the 'far right'?

12.01.2026 50

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Cadavers will always captivate. Museums need to chill out

08.01.2026 30

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Colour blind / Woke isn't dead – and here's the proof

06.01.2026 50

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Politics / Reform and the real populist threat

04.01.2026 40

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Reform and the real populist threat

04.01.2026 30

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Music / Iron Maiden at 50: how heavy metal became mainstream

26.12.2025 30

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