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Digital ID: Starmer’s gamble

Digital ID: Starmer’s gamble

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

Major Gerbil
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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

Major Gerbil
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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.

Major Gerbil
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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.

Major Gerbil
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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

Major Gerbil
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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.

Major Gerbil
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Why the Online Safety Act must be repealed

Why the Online Safety Act must be repealed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.

Major Gerbil
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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.

Major Gerbil
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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.

Major Gerbil
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The Islamophobia law trap

The Islamophobia law trap

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

Major Gerbil
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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

Major Gerbil
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France's shallow commitment

France's shallow commitment

Britain pays. Migrants sail. Paris shrugs.

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