Richard Ritchie is Enoch Powell’s archivist and is a former Conservative Parliamentary Candidate. He was BP’s director of UK Political Affairs. During the twelve days of Christmas, people like to play games in order to pass the time. One such game this year, for...
Our survey. The advent of the new Covid strain and the vaccine sees a swing towards maintaining lockdown
Last month, Conservative members still reported significant unease about the Government’s approach to combating Covid-19. Whilst there was a swing away from support for the ‘Swedish model’ as an alternative (in favour of a more effective...
SAGE scientists urge PM to impose an even stricter third national lockdown including closing schools
Advertisements The government’s SAGE scientists have urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to impose an even stricter third national lockdown that would include keeping all schools closed throughout January as a means of curbing the ‘new’ mutant coronavirus strain. This...
New study found Coronavirus may have been in the US in December. Would you even know you have had it?
Advertisements On 2nd December CNN reported on a newly published study suggesting the novel coronavirus was infecting people across the US as early as December. The first person known to have been infected arrived in the US from China on 15th January 2020....
Shanker Singham: Let’s use the freedoms that this trade deal gives us to create wealth – not destroy it
Shanker Singham is CEO of Competere. He is a former adviser to Liam Fox when he was Secretary of State for International Trade, and to the Office of the United States Trade Representative. When the founding fathers of the emerging United States of America declared...
Speech of the year: Kemi Badenoch on critical race theory
With 40.52 per cent of the vote, Kemi Badenoch’s Commons speech on critical race theory is the favourite among our panelists. Many will remember in October Badenoch declared the theory a “dangerous trend in race relations… an ideology that sees my...
Scott Benton: We are right to reform the UK’s gambling laws – but we must not drive punters into the arms of the black market
Scott Benton is the MP for for Blackpool South. This is a sponsored post by the Betting and Gaming Council. A year ago, I was proud to stand for election on a Conservative Party manifesto which pledged to review the UK’s gambling laws. The 2005 Gambling Act, the...
Met Police charge woman after 4 year old boy found dead in London
Advertisements Detectives are investigating the death of a four-year-old boy in Plumstead. Police were called by London Ambulance Service at 0749hrs on Sunday, 27 December, to a report of the death of a child at a flat in Invermore Place, SE18. The boy was found...
Professor Neil Ferguson claims lockdown may need to last until at least Easter
Advertisements The man dubbed ‘Professor Lockdown’ Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London epidemiologist who resigned his role as a Government adviser after breaking rules to see his married lover is now predicting that tier 4 rules could ‘possibly’ have to stay...
Stanley Johnson: Next year’s climate change conference should take its lead on carbon pricing from this Agreement
Stanley Johnson is an environmentalist, author, former Conservative MEP and parliamentary candidate. His new novel, The Warming, will be published next year. With fellow environmentalists Bill Oddie, Baroness Young and Laura Sandys, I was a founder-member of a...
