WHEN 103,000 people signed a petition to end the UK’s membership of the World Health Organization (Leave WHO) they reasonably expected a debate and were shocked to be told it would not happen. But even surpassing the 100,000-signature mark is no guarantee of a Westminster Hall sideshow as Andrew Bridgen MP made clear in his intervention in Parliament yesterday. This morning, […]
DURING the Blair years, the journalist Richard Littlejohn brilliantly riffed on the Del Amitri song Nothing Ever Happens to describe the political era of weightless vapidity we then appeared to be living in. (Of course, behind all the spin and deflection, the revolt of the elites first identified by Christopher Lasch was gathering pace, but it wasn’t widely […]
SUPERMARKETS are creating a crisis that is devastating family farms. Research shows that due to unfair business practices, nearly half of British fruit and vegetable producers believe they will need to give up their farms in the next 12 months. Organic farmer Guy Singh-Watson, who founded the Riverford veg box delivery company, said the future […]
A GENERATION ago, almost none of us would have balked at the phrase ‘our precious democracy’. The differing approaches from Labour in the 1970s through Thatcher, Blair and Brown proved that those in power had levers to pull and enact change. We might not have liked some of the results, but to say there was […]
READERS may not be familiar with Professor Paul Krugman. Most will probably be unaware of his exemplary, world-class, innovative thinking and writing as an economist who discovered my former scholarly field, economic geography. His books such as Geography and Trade in the 1990s changed debates, and for the better. He was smart and a heavy hitter. A Nobel Prize winner, no […]
THERE was a time when black drivers complained they were stopped by police so frequently that they felt as if they were guilty of being at the wheel while black. But with critical race theory marching through the institutions, white people can be forgiven for feeling the same – guilty of driving while white. This came to […]
STEPHEN Flynn, the SNP’s leader at Westminster, is a tough listen at the best of times but last week he added another dimension to the pain he inflicts on his audience. Along with the standard protestations of outrage about the contemptuous treatment of Scotland and the SNP, he so corrupted the language in his address […]
THE digital era exposes citizens to a dizzying range of sources of information and evidence. The old days when public information was vetted by a few prominent newspapers and TV and radio stations are over. Under these circumstances, censorship and expert control can seem like an efficient way to bring order, coherence, and predictability into […]
WE ARE being led by fools, wrote Professor Matt Goodwin, the author of best seller Values, Voice and Virtue, an investigation into the growing chasm between an unaccountable and sanctimonious self-proclaimed elite and the working people of this country who pay their salaries. As Goodwin notes, one side sees the world as flat, borderless and culture-free, while the […]
HAVE you ever met someone who wanted another layer of government or extra politicians funded through taxation? This is the easiest question you have ever been asked, for we all know the answer. So, how did we end up with Metro Mayors in our big cities? I am standing for Mayor of Greater Manchester, but not […]
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