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Political Commentary Is Now a Subscription Business
Political commentary increasingly runs on the same mechanics as a content farm: a provocative social post drives clicks to a paid platform, and the strength of the argument matters less than whether it converts. Matt Goodwin’s Facebook post about the murders of Jo Cox and Ann Widdecombe raises a fair question about double standards on…
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The British State Has Become the Enemy of the People
I’ve just finished watching Rupert Lowe’s latest sit-down, and frankly, it’s a bloody disgrace that we’ve let things get this far. Lowe is one of the few people in that God-forsaken building in Westminster actually telling the truth: the British state has become a parasitic tumour on the back of the hard-working public. This video…
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Why I Legally Stopped Paying The TV Licence Fee
Is there a tax in the UK more universally grumbled about than the TV Licence? It feels like a relic from a different era, yet the pressure to pay it remains as aggressive as ever. Recently, the conversation’s heated up again. With the government proposing to give free licences to those on benefits – subsidised…
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They’ll Tell You VAT Isn’t Rising. They’re Lying.
In Summary: UPDATE: This didn’t happen (yet) but I’ll leave this here as a reminder of what could still happen one day when Rachel Reeves (or a future holder of the red briefcase) fumbles with the budget calculator. The November 2025 budget could see the VAT registration threshold slashed from £90,000 to around £30,000, forcing…
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Digital ID – Sleepwalking Into a Totalitarian State?
In Summary: The UK government is pushing through a Digital ID scheme by 2028 that becomes mandatory for Right to Work checks, meaning you won’t get a new job without one. They’re calling it optional whilst making it compulsory for employment, spinning it as a convenient timesaver when it’s actually surveillance infrastructure that links your…
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Silence, Excuses, and a Met Police Left Picking Up the Pieces
London’s grooming scandal isn’t new. It’s just been ignored. Shamefully ignored! The latest announcement by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley confirms that more than 9,000 cases of suspected child sexual exploitation (that’s the left leaning way of saying it but let’s call it what it is: grooming and rape gangs!) stretching back over 15…
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When Policy, Prisons and Public Safety All Cock-up
On Friday morning, staff at HMP Chelmsford handed Hadush Kebatu, a 38-year-old Ethiopian asylum seeker convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, a £76 discharge grant and opened the door. They sent him home. Except he had no business going home. He was scheduled for immediate transfer to an immigration removal centre ahead of deportation to Ethiopia,…
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Shabana Mahmood Isn’t the Answer – Rhetoric Means Sod All
Westminster is buzzing about Shabana Mahmood. She’s being touted as Labour’s next Prime Minister, a straight-talker who’ll finally get tough on immigration. In Summary: Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is being talked up as Labour’s next Prime Minister based on confident speeches and tough-sounding policy announcements. But the actual numbers tell a brutally different story. More…
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The Online Hate That Killed Caroline Flack
We’ve heard of suicides before. But Caroline Flack’s death hit different. Not because I knew her, I didn’t. But because it laid bare something we all know is happening but choose to ignore: the absolute poison that social media has become. The keyboard warriors don’t give a shit about the damage they cause. If you…
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Agenda 21 – Why I’m Not Cheering Loudly as Many Are
Four years on from Rio, the summit’s 40 chapters of aspirations are still being worked through council chambers up and down the country, and that’s precisely what unsettles me. Nobody objects to cleaner rivers or better forestry management in principle. What I object to is the mechanism: a non-binding UN structure that nonetheless expects local…