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The election is over; Joe Biden is in the White House; and Donald Trump has returned to his home in Florida. While vocally unhappy with the outcome, Trump didn’t refuse to leave Washington, which was suggested as a remote possibility by Forbes senior contributor Jack Kelly. In the wake of the election, Trump has been…
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof recently penned a column titled “A Letter to My Conservative Friends,” with the subheading “Hold us accountable, but please do the same for the charlatans who deceive you, use you, and cheat you.” Kristof doesn’t name any conservative friends, so we can’t be sure he has any. It’s fascinating…
This time last year, the concept of a “vaccine passport” would have sounded utterly bizarre to most people; dystopian, even. And yet, here we are. Today The Times reports that the Government is developing “Covid vaccine passports to allow foreign holidays”. Currently anyone who has been vaccinated is given a rather primitive record card. But…
Robert Goodwill is MP for Scarborough and Whitby, and a former Home Office and Education Minister. We have all been shocked and appalled by reports of homeowners being unfairly targeted by a combination of unscrupulous developers and incompetent solicitors where escalating ground rents have made their dream home unsellable. The Government has rightly said that…
Nick Maughan is an investor and philanthropist. All young people have been dealt a bad hand by the indirect effects of the pandemic – school closures, disrupted social lives, stifled educations, scuppered paths to university, the looming prospect of insurmountable debt, and diminished prospects for gainful employment. However, some young people are more equal than…
Eight years ago, the TaxPayers’ Alliance reported that “in the last year, five times more Labour people were appointed to public bodies than Tories”. It currently reports that almost half of avowedly political appointees last year owed their allegiance to Labour Party, compared to less than a third for the Conservatives. Despite the selection of…
Government plans Covid vaccine passports to allow foreign holidays “British officials have started work on a “vaccine passport” as Greece prepares to waive quarantine rules for tourists who can prove that they have been inoculated against coronavirus. A certification system is being planned, The Times has learnt. The Foreign Office, Department for Transport and Department…
Iain Dale presents the evening show on LBC Radio and the For the Many podcast with Jacqui Smith. Keir Starmer hasn’t had a good week. He had to apologise for saying at PMQs that he had never argued we should remain within the orbit of the European Medicines Agency. Footage then emerged of him saying he would…
Sir Roger Gale is MP for North Thanet. A great deal has changed in the US since the election of President Biden. After just a couple of weeks in office he has made sweeping changes to both US domestic and foreign policy, from suspending the construction of the US-Mexico border wall to rejoining the Paris…
