Culture Wars

Is Shapps softening us up for a Global Defence Reset?

LAST week’s dire warnings from Defence Secretary Grant Shapps prompt the question of whether this is another Project Fear in the making and a dangerous ploy to condition us to accept a Global Defence Reset.  Shapps asserted that in the next five years we could be at war with China, which has a military force  of […]

The struggle for the C of E’s soul

JUSTIN Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury and captain of the good ship Anglican, having steered on to the rocks, is bailing furiously in an attempt to stop the vessel from sinking. His officers meanwhile can give only one order: ‘Full steam ahead.’ Most of the deckhands have taken to the lifeboats or jumped into the icy water, […]

Sinead O’Connor and the death of free speech

OVER the Christmas break I watched a documentary on the late Sinead O’Connor, or Saint Sinead if you live in Ireland.   O’Connor is best known for her haunting voice on Nothing Compares 2 U and for ripping up a photo of the then Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live in 1992. She was arguably one of […]

Rebuffing the riff-raff: A masterclass from Dame Norma

EVERY MP and councillor has experienced the irritation of receiving letters from disgruntled people who refuse to accept that their representative knows what is best for them. A good many of these unwelcome communications concern climate change and the Net Zero agenda. Aspirants to public office may be wondering how to deal with such correspondence without becoming embroiled in […]

A world under the spell of pseudo science

IN HIS seminal 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn argued that science is not an objective form of knowledge by which scientists reveal the laws of the natural world, rather it could be thought of as a social institution, where scientific discourse emerges through the dynamics of the personalities involved, the influence of social […]

Governments and media – the useful idiots for Hamas

AFTER Hamas’s terror spree inside Israel on October 7, Western cities have had several months of Islamic extremists and their leftist fellow travellers brazenly parading through the streets calling for the destruction of the world’s only Jewish state. As Mark Steyn so accurately points out, those pro-Jihad marches are indicative of the effect of mass […]

Dominic Cummings, and other useless gurus

‘People in this country have had enough of experts from organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong’. In one of his rare insights, Michael Gove nailed the experts predicting economic disaster after Brexit, with words that are just as true for climate change and Covid scaremongering. But there’s […]

Putting matters right – The Conservative Woman

THE western world will be facing an unprecedented challenge over the next 12 months, with the rise of right-wing parties in many countries holding elections. Democracy warriors such as America’s Joe Biden and Poland’s Donald Tusk are in the vanguard of those who stand between unbridled fascism and the free world. For many impartial observers, […]

Getting council housing is like winning the lottery

OUR nation is in slow motion economic collapse, edging ever closer to recession. As long term interest rates move lower, they signal that our land faces more of the same bitter medicine of the 2010s: unmanaged slump and worse living standards. Inquiring minds seek the truth about the cause of the UK’s dire economic performance. […]