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Britain: A Lost Cause?

Kevan James November 3, 2025 Is The United Kingdom of Great Britain a lost cause? One can see comments to this effect quite frequently on social media; "The UK is finished," they say. What does that mean? Since none of these posts ever expand on their point, we can only surmise they mean the country native Brits once knew. A country that was known around the world for being essentially decent in many ways. But that country ceased to exist in the way many knew it decades ago,

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