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Build Baby Build? More like Bluff Baby Bluff

Build Baby Build? More like Bluff Baby Bluff

Labour’s housing pledge is drowning in slogans, excuses and red caps while the numbers tell a very different story.

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The soul of the nation, fought over IDs and immigration

The soul of the nation, fought over IDs and immigration

Blair’s billion-pound machine + Reform’s insurgent surge

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The Starkey Thesis: Why Britain can’t move on until it undoes 1997

The Starkey Thesis: Why Britain can’t move on until it undoes 1997

From Peel to Blair and back again. Inside David Starkey’s battle to define Conservatism.

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Digital ID: Starmer’s gamble

Digital ID: Starmer’s gamble

The government wants to track us all. Will Britain consent?

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The Beeb can’t compete, so Ofcom will cheat

The Beeb can’t compete, so Ofcom will cheat

The franchise economy and how to reclaim it + the secret state vs the public mood

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HMRC lectures staff on “guilt of being British”

HMRC lectures staff on “guilt of being British”

Britain’s tax office can’t answer your call, but it can teach its staff to feel ashamed of their country.

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Labour’s Savile smear shows just how far they’ve fallen

Labour’s Savile smear shows just how far they’ve fallen

To defend a bad law, Labour resorts to the ugliest smear in politics and sacrifices free speech along the way.

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Strategic autonomy on American terms

Strategic autonomy on American terms

Welcome to Pyromania-on-Avon + Britain's prison crisis of foreigners

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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Why the Online Safety Act must be repealed

Why the Online Safety Act must be repealed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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