ANOTHER depressing article on the state of our youth: Britain has a boy problem, according to the Telegraph, as male educational attainment lags well behind female. And not just a boy problem, either. The same article states that since covid, men have been working fewer hours and have been dropping out of the workforce, whereas women […]
“Let me say for the billionth time: Reporters don’t root for any side. Period!” – Chris Cillizza, CNN Image Credit: Canva By William Haupt III [Tennessee Watchdog Journalist, Columnist, Author, and Citizen Legislator via The Center Square] – There was a time when gum shoe beat reporters patrolled the halls of smoke filled meeting rooms […]
‘I don’t do portfolio politics. I don’t take the line that because I think something about issue X I’ve got to think something about some unrelated issue Y. I try to look at each problem on its merits.’ Former Supreme Court Justice Lord Sumption, UnHerd podcast, February 2024 IT’S NOT common for us commoners to hear […]
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said in an interview on Monday that Joe Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than Donald Trump. Kennedy told CNN’s Erin Burnett that President Biden is more of a threat to democracy because of how Biden has encouraged social media platforms to block him during his administration. Kennedy said Biden […]
TWO is a coincidence, three is a trend. First Brexit, then the Indigenous Voice referendum in Australia, now the defenestration of Leo Varadkar in Ireland: his attempt to change the Irish constitution on woke lines crashed and burned in a defeat so humiliating it seems to have led to his shock resignation last week. Apparently, […]
GB NEWS is upsetting Britain’s delicate ‘broadcast ecology’ and should be shut down, Sky’s Adam Boulton whined just over six months ago. An unfortunate phrase to use in the circumstances, given that the process most associated with ecosystems is Charles Darwin’s survival of the fittest through natural selection. No doubt, to extend the biological metaphor, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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