Julian Gallant: Politics can support the arts without disturbing the artist

Julian Gallant: Politics can support the arts without disturbing the artist

Jullian Gallent is a conductor, composer, pianist, impresario and Treasurer at Conservative Friends of The Arts (Instagram; Facebook). I’ve been actively involved in Conservative campaigning since 2013, fought the 2019 GE as candidate for Ealing Central and Acton and am currently a Londonwide candidate for the GLA. My profession, though, is music and I’ve never quite…

Profile: Nadhim Zahawi, vaccines minister and a rising star who also knows what it is like to fall

Profile: Nadhim Zahawi, vaccines minister and a rising star who also knows what it is like to fall

Nadhim Zahawi is a rising star who has taken a long time to rise. By making him Minister for Vaccine Deployment, Boris Johnson has at last given him a tremendous opportunity to show what he can do. Robert Halfon, who chairs the Education Select Committee and knows Zahawi well, says of him: “He’d get you…

Ryan Shorthouse and Phoebe Arslanagic-Wakefield: Domestic abuse is everyone’s business

Ryan Shorthouse and Phoebe Arslanagic-Wakefield: Domestic abuse is everyone’s business

Ryan Shorthouse is the Founder and Chief Executive of Bright Blue and Phoebe Arslanagic-Wakefield is a Researcher there, whose work focuses on the inequalities of remote work, and integration and immigration. The necessary national response to the threat of Coronavirus has come at high cost in myriad different ways. However, among those paying the highest…

4 Takeaways From Democrats’ Second Full Day of Arguments to Disqualify Trump
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4 Takeaways From Democrats’ Second Full Day of Arguments to Disqualify Trump

In a second full day of making their case for disqualifying Donald Trump from running again for president, House Democrats reminded the Senate of the Charlottesville riot in 2017 and a plot last year to kidnap Michigan’s governor.  The nine House impeachment managers, or prosecutors, kept most of the focus Thursday on a mob’s Jan. 6 …

Call Transportation Bailouts What They Are: More Welfare for Labor Unions
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Call Transportation Bailouts What They Are: More Welfare for Labor Unions

Congress is moving full steam ahead on ramming through a bloated, wasteful, and debt-exploding $1.9 trillion legislative package. Although it’s supposedly justified by the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the spending is designed to appease progressive ideological causes and politically connected interest groups. A prime example is the $57.5 billion currently earmarked for various parts of…

Damian Flanagan: Manchester has a central role to play in preserving the UK

Damian Flanagan: Manchester has a central role to play in preserving the UK

Damian Flanagan is Chair of Manchester Conservatives. While we are all busy trying to make our way – maintaining life and livelihoods as best as we can – through the long ordeal of the Coronavirus pandemic, we might also be grimly aware that our very nation seems to be intractably moving apart. Calls from the…

The Great Reset (of property)

The Great Reset (of property)

In recent times, newspapers have been filled with stories about the enormous changes to the property market brought about by the Covid pandemic. “London falling”, reads one headline, warning that the “magnetism of living in the capital is losing its power“. Other articles echo this sentiment, highlighting the rise in demand elsewhere. There have been…