EVERY day is a bank holiday in the East Sussex town of Bexhill-on-Sea. That’s because every major bank branch has closed. A friend who distributes posters to retail outlets in the town, stating ‘cash welcome here’, often writes to any businesses that decide to accept card payments only. Last week he received this rationale from […]
RACHEL Reeves, Labour’s shadow chancellor, has described today’s Britain as reminiscent of 1979. For younger readers, in 1979 the UK was broke, inflation was rampant, nationalised industries were on strike, militant unions weren’t collecting rubbish or burying the dead, there was no investment and there were three million unemployed. The Labour Prime Minister was James Callaghan, […]
THE UK economy remains on its knees, and day after day you see reports that don’t just make slightly grim reading but should fill the public with dread for the state we find ourselves in. Is unemployment on the rise still? Yes. Are wages falling again? Yes. While it is easy to lament the lack […]
I KNOW the Metropolitan Police get a lot of stick these days but sometimes you do wonder why they bother. A report in the Times a few days ago proved, once again, that they are not on your side. I’ll explain that concept in a minute, but write it down: they are not on your side. The Times reported that Myglor […]
HERE are some astonishing figures. Woking council’s borrowing for the 24/25 year totals around £2billion, equivalent to £18,000 for every resident. Spelthorne, a Surrey town of around 100,000 souls, owes £1billion, Warrington £1.8billion and Thurrock in Essex £1.5billion. There are others. How do they do it, you might be asking, where does all this come […]
WITHOUT the protection of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officers, an angry crowd of pro-abortionists would have successfully disrupted the inaugural meeting of the Manchester University Pro-Life Society. This video on Manchester free speech platform Tke Media shows the incident on February 29: The small group of pro-lifers was hugely outnumbered by the pro-abortionists who would almost certainly have […]
THOUGH politicians and the political twitterati obsess about the date, timing and outcome of the general election, most ordinary citizens remain comatose at the prospect; barely 65 per cent of them are likely to vote for their respective red or blue donkey. This is understandable, given that in many respects the outcome is almost certainly […]
IN THE historic case of Entick v Carrington in 1765, Lord Camden famously stated: ‘By the laws of England, every invasion into private property, be it ever so minute, is a trespass.’ By that measure the Renters Reform Bill, now in its final stages in Parliament, can best be described as a wholesale and fundamental invasion into […]
BEGINNINGS and origins are important. They shed light on what comes later. If we take, for example, the book of Beginnings called Genesis in the Bible, we see human nature in the raw: political machination and the lust for power are there from the start. People prepared to kill other people . . . I […]
WHEN I came to Europe from the United States in 2015 to walk the Camino (the 500-mile ancient pilgrimage route through northern Spain), I had the good fortune to fall in with a group of genial Brits. I was planning to visit the UK after my pilgrimage to finish a novel and explore the world […]
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