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Britain’s buried treasure and why Labour wants to leave it in the ground

Britain’s buried treasure and why Labour wants to leave it in the ground

Labour wants to tax it, bury it and import the rest. Trump says: drill it.

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Why the Online Safety Act must be repealed

Why the Online Safety Act must be repealed

Britain doesn't do firewalls. Or at least, it didn't.

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The left is splintering

The left is splintering

A country that polices its people but not its borders & Dominic Cummings on the fake system.

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Churchill wouldn't have joined Strasburg

Churchill wouldn't have joined Strasburg

The UK’s ECHR membership wasn’t born of noble idealism, but of post-war sleight of hand. Now it paralyses government, invents laws, and corrodes democracy.

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The Islamophobia law trap

The Islamophobia law trap

Britain's doomed economic logic + The broken asylum system for Christians

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The Afghan scandal that broke the regime

The Afghan scandal that broke the regime

Plus Farage goes hard on crime & the new British political tribes

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France's shallow commitment

France's shallow commitment

Britain pays. Migrants sail. Paris shrugs.

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Jenrick vs the fare-dodgers

Jenrick vs the fare-dodgers

When the real scandal is doing something.

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Starmer names his enemy

Starmer names his enemy

By singling out Reform, Labour confirms them as the main act.

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Cummings signals collapse

Cummings signals collapse

The man who once engineered political insurgency now warns it may be too late to fix the system.

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The lanyard state

The lanyard state

Badges of virtue, imported panics and the rituals of elite submission.

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Farage makes his move

Farage makes his move

Nigel Farage launched a policy platform this week and issued a death certificate for the Conservative Party.

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A counter to consensus - curating the overlooked, reframing the misreported and sharpening the argument.

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