Starmer’s “new chapter” speech will only further his critics’ concerns

Starmer’s “new chapter” speech will only further his critics’ concerns

Today Keir Starmer took to the podium (yet again) to prove to the electorate why he should become the UK’s next Prime Minister. His speech was titled “A New Chapter for Britain” and had been talked up as a “major policy blitz” for Labour, in which its leader would dazzle voters with a new vision…

Pregnant Women: Beware of COVID Shots, by Michelle Malkin

Pregnant Women: Beware of COVID Shots, by Michelle Malkin

(Related: Brooklyn Woman Fired From Job After Not Getting Vaccine Because She Wanted to Wait For More Data on Pregnancy Effects) Twenty years ago, when I was pregnant with my first child, I transformed into a total health nut. A lifelong couch potato, I started exercising, enrolled in Lamaze classes and even took vitamins for……

Our next live event: Truss on ‘Global Britain – navigating the post-Brexit world’

Our next live event: Truss on ‘Global Britain – navigating the post-Brexit world’

We are very pleased to invite you to ConservativeHome’s next free online event: a timely discussion on “Global Britain – navigating the post-Brexit world“. At 7pm on Monday 1st March, we’ll be joined (via Zoom) by: Liz Truss MP, Secretary of State for International Trade Professor Anand Menon, Director of UK in a Changing Europe…

Garvan Walshe: We can be sure that those who have been vaccinated won’t die of Covid. So the case for lockdowns is vanishing fast.

Garvan Walshe: We can be sure that those who have been vaccinated won’t die of Covid. So the case for lockdowns is vanishing fast.

Garvan Walshe is a former National and International Security Policy Adviser to the Conservative Party. Having detected three cases of Covid-19, Melbourne has been put into lockdown. The European Centre for Disease Control suggests it might have to be maintained until the summer. Germany is getting increasingly jumpy about new variants, despite never exceeding 300…

Caroline Ffiske: How non-crime hate incidents came into force.  And why they should be reformed – or scrapped altogether.

Caroline Ffiske: How non-crime hate incidents came into force. And why they should be reformed – or scrapped altogether.

Caroline Ffiske is a former adviser to the New Zealand Government and Conservative councillor in Hammersmith & Fulham. Sir William Macpherson, who led the damning report into the Metropolitan Police following the murder of Stephen Lawrence, has died, aged 94. Tributes have poured in for his groundbreaking work in naming and tackling institutional racism. However,…

Rush Limbaugh’s Rare Voice Extolled Individual Liberty and Limited Government
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Rush Limbaugh’s Rare Voice Extolled Individual Liberty and Limited Government

It was news that talk radio devotees, among whom I long have counted myself, had been anticipating—make that dreading—for months. But when the news broke Wednesday shortly after noon EST, that didn’t make it any less hurtful. When a Limbaugh came on the radio at the usual time and it was not Rush but instead…

The mass testing ‘blitz’. Cummings’ Operation Moonshot strategy returns.

The mass testing ‘blitz’. Cummings’ Operation Moonshot strategy returns.

Before his dramatic departure from Downing Street, Dominic Cummings had taken the lead on one of the Government’s most ambitious strategies to manage the Coronavirus pandemic; the “Operation Moonshot” mass-swabbing project. This was the Government’s “game-changer” in the Coronavirus wars – particularly at a time when there was uncertainty over whether a vaccine would be…