And Finally…
August 30, 2022 11:32 pm 1 CommentIn this week’s London Calling the talking points are grouse shooting, the temptations of joining the Establishment, Meghan Markle’s latest warblings and House of Dragons.
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Hard Left Unions Barons Plot Strike to Bring Britain to its Knees
August 28, 2022 12:55 pm 35 CommentsMilitant trade unionists are planning to bring the country to its knees in the hope of destroying the Conservative Government. Have they forgotten that the last Winter of Discontent led to a massive Tory majority?
Lord Sumption: The Truth About Lockdown is Becoming Impossible to Deny – It Was a Disaster
August 28, 2022 10:45 am 50 CommentsLord Sumption has written about the gradually dawning realisation that the lockdown policy was a disastrous mistake. It could be called ‘I Told You So’ – or, since some anger is justified, ‘I F***ing Told You So.’
NHS Hiring Diversity Managers Despite ‘War on Wokery’
August 28, 2022 9:00 am 7 CommentsA Taxpayers‘ Alliance investigation has found over a dozen NHS trusts are still advertising for diversity managers for upwards of £77,000 a year in spite of NHS chiefs blaming its current problems on inadequate funding.
British Public Falls Out of Love With the NHS
August 27, 2022 6:59 pm 29 CommentsAccording to a new Sunday Times poll, support for the NHS is cratering. 58% are not confident they’d receive timely treatment if they fill ill tomorrow and 45% believe the service has got worse in the last 12 months.
Wall St Journal Editorial: Net Zero Bankrupts Britain
August 27, 2022 4:00 pm 18 CommentsThe Wall St Journal has written a pithy editorial in which it argues that the underlying causes of Britain’s energy misery is our fixation with achieving Net Zero emissions by 2050.
Nicola Sturgeon’s Reign of Error
August 27, 2022 2:00 pm 6 CommentsTom Harris has written a blistering piece about Nicola Sturgeon’s reign of error as Scotland’s First Minister. The sheer scale of the SNP Government’s incompetence is breathtaking.
With the British State Unable to Perform Basic Functions, it is Time For a New Approach
August 27, 2022 11:57 am 35 CommentsAris Roussinos has written an essay in UnHerd in which he lays bare the full extent of the omni-crisis that is about to engulf us. But his attractive-sounding solution ignores one critical fact: we’ve run out of money.
Climate Change Hand-Wringer Prince Harry Took Private Jet to Polo Match
August 27, 2022 9:00 am 19 CommentsClimate Change hand-wringer Prince Harry arrived in an electric car to board a private jet to take him to a polo match, but forgot his kit so kept the jet idling on the tarmac until the kit arrived in a gas-guzzling SUV.
Is the Lockdown Dam About to Break?
August 27, 2022 7:00 am 79 CommentsA leader in today’s Telegraph says the question the Covid inquiry must ask is whether we should have locked down at all. People are beginning to conclude it was a calamitous mistake.