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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.

Stephen &nbsp
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.

Stephen &nbsp
Digital ID: Starmer’s gamble

Digital ID: Starmer’s gamble

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

Stephen &nbsp
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.

Stephen &nbsp
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.

Stephen &nbsp
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.

Stephen &nbsp
Why the Online Safety Act must be repealed

Why the Online Safety Act must be repealed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.

Stephen &nbsp
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.

Stephen &nbsp
France's shallow commitment

France's shallow commitment

Britain pays. Migrants sail. Paris shrugs.

Jenrick vs the fare-dodgers

Jenrick vs the fare-dodgers

When the real scandal is doing something.

Starmer names his enemy

Starmer names his enemy

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

Stephen &nbsp
Cummings signals collapse

Cummings signals collapse

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

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

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

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