Richard Holden: Scottish nationalists and their Strasbourg Syndrome
Richard Holden is MP for North West Durham. Low Barnes Nature Reserve, Witton-Le-Wear, North West Durham. If you grow up in the Pennines, memories of mid-winter have a magic of their own. Christmas holidays where you crunched across moors of snow dotted with hardy...
Ros Altmann: The end of free TV licences for older people offers a chance to boost the take-up of Pension Credit
Baroness Altmann is a Conservative peer. Whilst there is an understandable focus on child and in-work poverty in the current pandemic, we should not forget there are around two million pensioners in poverty. As we recover from this difficult year, politicians must...
Bristol stabbings: Police “keeping an open mind” whether two stabbings are related
Advertisements Police have said they are keeping an open mind over whether two stabbing attacks are related, on New Year’s Day a 15-year-old boy was stabbed several times in Fishponds, Bristol. The incident happened the day after a 17-year-old was attacked in the city...
Most Read Stories of 2020
Our articles were read over 61 million times in 2020 and these seven stories were the most read: #1 SS Nazi Uniform Shame of Piers Morgan No doubt this will be a bitter-sweet victory for Piers. It was number one because it was suppressed, follow-ups didn’t run in...
The Deal in Detail 7) Health
Robert Ede is a Senior Research Fellow in Health and Social Care at Policy Exchange. In April 2016, the UK Government sent every household in the UK a leaflet entitled: Why the Government believes that voting to remain in the European Union is the best decision for...
George Galloway SLAMs ‘hypocritical’ Sturgeon who ‘joined SNP when it fought for Brexit’
Advertisements George Galloway has accused the SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon of “hypocritical opportunism” after she marked Britain’s departure from the EU with a vow to return to the bloc with an independent Scotland – despite the fact Scotland would not be a fully...
Nativity scene petrol-bombed on Christmas Eve
Advertisements A £2,500 reward has been offered up following a nativity scene being petrol-bombed on Christmas Eve. The scene was erected in Raglan, Monmouthshire and was set up in a bus shelter for local families to enjoy over Christmas. The fire destroyed all of the...
Newslinks for Saturday 2nd January 2020
Two million Oxford jabs will be made every week… “Two million doses of the Oxford vaccine are due to be supplied each week by the middle of this month as pressure builds on the government to speed up immunisations. Concerns are growing over the rate...
2021 and the race to normality. Post-vaccine hospitalisation and transmission data are key to reopening the economy.
With the advent of 2021 (happy new year!) and the Oxford vaccine finally receiving approval, many of us are wondering a simple – but difficult to answer – question: how soon until life gets back to normal? Boris Johnson has said that Britain will “open up”...
Mario Laghos: Johnson must chuck free market ideology and double down on levelling up Britain
Mario Laghos is a political analyst and the editor of Just Debate. During the 2019 election, Boris Johnson seemed a true pragmatist. He saw a gap in the market, and set about titillating the hankering for a politics which melded social conservatism with a far more...
