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The corruption of the Renaissance Church prompted the Reformation, which in turn sparked a Counter-Reformation of reformist, and more zealous, Catholics. The cultural excesses and economic recklessness of the Roaring ’20s were followed by the bleak, dour, and impoverished years of the Great Depression. The 1960s counterculture led to Richard Nixon’s landslide victory in 1972,…
“Clearly they are at greater risk.” Mayor of Greater Manchester @AndyBurnhamGM says more vaccines should go to areas with lower life expectancy and calls for “greater flexibility” for those such as bus and taxi drivers to get vaccinated earlier#Ridge https://t.co/xW4OhsCzyj pic.twitter.com/vNEsdqKDzj — Sophy Ridge on Sunday (@RidgeOnSunday) February 7, 2021 Originally found on Conservative Home…
Oxford Vaccine lead researcher Prof Sarah Gilbert tells #Marr the #CoronavirusVaccine has a “reduction in efficacy” against the South African variant but “there is still protection against deaths, hospitalisations and severe disease”https://t.co/bQfOn3vEfS pic.twitter.com/g7dX4oO7D6 — BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) February 7, 2021 Originally found on Conservative Home Read More
This site will weep no tears for the Lansley reforms. Parts of them were good, parts of them were bad, and all of them were worse once they had been showboated by the Liberal Democrats. Tim Montgomerie ran an outspoken campaign against them when editor of this site – and he was right. But the…
David Davis is a former Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, and is MP for Haltemprice and Howden. Neil Parish is Chairman of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee, and is MP for Tiverton and Honiton. This week, MPs have the opportunity to vote on two important amendments to the Trade…
Amanda Milling is co-Chairman of the Conservative Party and is MP for Cannock Chase. Elections are the cornerstone of our democracy: they give you the opportunity to have your say on everything from your bin collections to the number of police on your streets. However, last year saw our democracy delayed – as we took…
The adviser who first quit and then stayed reveals in a resignation note that Ministers believe the over-50s will be vaccinated by the end of April “The great majority of adults will have received a coronavirus jab by the end of May, a senior government adviser has revealed, after an official announcement that all the…
“I’m sorry,” I said, “I can’t spend the rest of the morning talking about this idiotic mistake.” Generally speaking, I try not to be rude to people who ring me on official business. They have a living to earn, and cannot be held responsible for the scripts which they are required to read out, before…
The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism by Peter Oborne Boris Johnson is a liar. This charge is often made by the Prime Minister’s critics, and Peter Oborne makes it with tremendous vehemence: “Standards of truth telling, I will prove, collapsed at the precise moment Boris…
