Has the American Constitution survived? Yes. It is intact after four years of Donald Trump, and can surely endure a few days more of this sleazy, shameless, self-obsessed fantasist. Trump himself has belatedly changed his tune, declaring on Thursday evening: “My...
Andrew Rossindell: How close we came to waking up in the backstop
Andrew Rosindell is the MP for Romford. How close we came to waking up on January 1 trapped in the backstop. That misery would have been quickly overtaken by the new national lockdown announced on Monday night. But this would in no way have diminished in the...
Iain Dale: The social media companies claim that they aren’t publishers. But their ban on the President proves that they are.
Iain Dale presents the evening show on LBC Radio and the For the Many podcast with Jacqui Smith. Just when you think Donald Trump can’t sink any lower, he does just that. His speech to his unholy bunch of supporters on Wednesday afternoon in Washington can’t be...
Peel increased the burden of taxation on the rich – perhaps Sunak and Johnson will too
The Prime Ministers: 55 Leaders, 55 Authors, 300 Years of History edited by Iain Dale The brief life can be one of the most delightful of all literary forms. While putting off the awkward task of writing this review, I turned for purposes of comparison to Alan...
Sarah Elliott: Trump is acting unconstitutionally now – and is damaging our Republican Party – but has achieved much in office
Sarah Elliott is Chair of Republicans Overseas UK. As Chair of Republicans Overseas UK for the last four years, I have regularly defended Donald Trump for his conservative agenda, his massive tax cuts and deregulatory efforts to stimulate the economy, being tough on...
Gareth Lyon: We need a Public Sector Neutrality Act to rein in politicisation
Gareth Lyon is a former councillor in Rushmoor and the Chairman of the Aldershot and North Hants Conservative Association. The institutions which we fund through our taxes, and the people who work in them, should be politically neutral. No one should be required to...
Vaccine strategies in Europe. France battles anti-vaxxers, while Merkel is blamed for procurement failures.
With the Government under enormous pressure to accelerate its vaccine programme, it’s easy to believe that the UK is unique in the difficulties it faces in upscaling quickly. But across Europe, and indeed the world, many others are facing similar operational...
David Snoxell: A simple solution for resolving the Chagos dispute is to give Mauritius responsibility
David Snoxell is Co-Ordinator of the Chagos Islands (BIOT) APPG. The Chagos Archipelago of 54 islands, formerly administered as a dependency of the British Colony of Mauritius, was excised by Britain in 1965, three years before Mauritius was granted independence. It...
Henry Hill: Johnson suggests 40-year wait for the next Scottish independence vote
Johnson calls for decades-long wait for second independence vote Last month, I wrote that there was unease in parts of the Government about an alleged “appease-the-SNP mentality” on the part of some of those charged with setting its strategy for combatting...
Newslinks for Thursday 7th January 2021
America 1) Woman dies as Trump mob storms Senate “Thousands of President Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol to bring a violent halt to the formal confirmation of his election defeat yesterday after he urged them to “take back the country”. The mob overran...
