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The City That Forgot It Was Free

Jim Chimirie November 5, 2025 There's a sickness in New York's soul. The city that once rose from the dust of 9/11 has elected a man who excuses the very slogans that glorify its killers. Zohran Mamdani's victory isn't democracy at work; it's decadence in plain sight – a civilisation so numbed by guilt that it now mistakes its enemies for reformers. He calls himself a socialist, but his creed runs deeper than class. It's a blend of Marx and Muhammad – economic envy fused with

Reform UK Drops Promise To Cut Taxes

Harriet Symonds November 3, 2025. Reform leader Nigel Farage has abandoned plans for tax cuts, breaking from Reform UK’s previous manifesto commitments. Farage has declared that a Reform government would not be able to deliver “substantial” tax cuts at the moment as he attempts to build his party's economic credibility. “We want to cut taxes, of course we do, but we understand substantial tax cuts given the dire state of debt and our finances are not realistic at this curren

Should Reeves Go?

Kemi Badenoch November 3, 2025 Whatever one might think about Rachel Reeves’ misdemeanours, the real scandal is that property owners have to pay off the council to rent out their own homes. Unlike Reeves, who had been tweeting in support of this legislation at the same time she wasn’t complying with it, I’d hardly heard of the landlords licence she should have acquired. It turns out neither had many landlords, who I suspect will be furious to learn that they owe even more mon

A Train To Nowhere

Jim Chimirie November 3, 2025. Multiple People Stabbed On A Train In Cambridgeshire. "Every time a citizen is maimed or killed in a preventable attack, it is not just a failure of policing – it is a failure of philosophy. The political class no longer believes in order. It believes in optics. It prefers the illusion of virtue to the reality of safety." A man boards a train in England expecting to reach his intended destination. He ends up fighting for his life instead. Severa

Has Badenoch Steadied the Tories - Or Not?

Henry Hill October 31, 2025 A couple of days ago, John Rentoul of the Independent website highlighted this handy chart from Wikipedia, a sort of progress bar for the current Parliament combined with a polling summary: His point, and certainly the most striking takeaway from the most recent months, is that there has been a clear and substantial shift from Labour to the Greens since the summer – one large enough to put the latter within touching distance of pushing the Libera

Britain's Deadly Open Door

Jim Chimirie October 30, 2025 Britain's Open-Border Delusion Has Turned Deadly - The UK is being punished for its decency. We opened our doors to the desperate, and the ruthless walked through. The BBC went to Buxton this week – a quiet Derbyshire town of little drama and few outsiders – to ask why so many locals plan to vote Reform. The reporters were baffled. Buxton has no migrant hotels, no small boats, no asylum camps. Why, then, are its people worried about immigration?

Reforming the ECHR Has Begun

Pete North October 15, 2025 No, not the Party - the ECHR. Pete North updates the present situation regarding possibly reforming relevant parts of the ECHR. ECHR: the wheels of reform are starting to turn According to The Times, British ministers have won the backing of more than a dozen countries to reform the European Convention of Human Rights as governments across the continent search for ways to curb illegal migration. More than 16 countries are understood to support UK m