Rory Stewart’s Ruritanian Vision of Britain
9 October 2023
by J. Sorel
Post-Lockdown Idleness Means Britain May Soon be Bankrupt
9 October 2023
by Luke Johnson
An NHS medic, Dr Mennah Elwan, mocked Israeli festival-goers for fleeing Hamas gunmen, claiming on X that "there are no civilians in Israel" and calling for the UK to forcibly remove the whole Israeli population.
The former head of Interpol, Björn Eriksson says his chief security concern now is the erasure of cash, as worries grow about the vulnerability of electronic payment systems to attack.
TV naturalist Chris Packham is threatening legal action to prevent Rishi Sunak's watering down of Net Zero. But the Climate Change Act is so vague that this is highly unlikely to succeed, says Dr David McGrogan.
A teacher has been sacked from a Church of England school after she refused to teach "extreme" LGBT lessons as part of religious education.
At the U.K. Covid Inquiry last week the Lead Counsel, Hugo Keith KC, claimed Covid would have grown "exponentially" without lockdown while the British Medical Association called for earlier, harder restrictions.
J Sorel is perplexed by Rory Stewart’s memoir. The presence of an overbearing, rampant Civil Service is mentioned throughout, but Rory’s solution to 'Broken Britain' is a massive reduction in Parliament's powers.
Entrepreneur Luke Johnson worries that furlough and working from home have fed into a culture of entitlement that could end up bankrupting the entire welfare state.
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