Jethro Elsden: By how much will we gain by choosing our own vaccination programme, not the EU’s? Let’s start at GBP100 billion.

Jethro Elsden: By how much will we gain by choosing our own vaccination programme, not the EU’s? Let’s start at GBP100 billion.

is a Data Analyst and Researcher at the Centre for Policy Studies. The most important thing about the success of the UK’s vaccination rollout is that it will save lives. Not only will the vaccines cut the numbers dying of this horrible disease, but they will mean that – as the pandemic eases – the…

Plea for phone canvassing for local elections – before a “short, sharp and cheerful” doorstep campaign

Plea for phone canvassing for local elections – before a “short, sharp and cheerful” doorstep campaign

There has been widespread concern that the bumper crop of local elections due to take place on May 6th might be postponed due to the pandemic. Just over a week ago, a survey, by the Local Government Information Unit, was released. Of more than 350 chief executives and other council officials surveyed, only 11 per…

Black History Month and Republican Support for Civil Rights in 1960s
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Black History Month and Republican Support for Civil Rights in 1960s

Conservatives are labeled constantly as racist both in the radical liberal media and within the black community. Some of the accusations are justified, but many aren’t supported by facts. But because conservatives are incompetent in messaging, especially when it comes to the black community, oft-repeated radical liberal lies have become the truth. These perceptions will…

Labour’s vaccine know-it-alls risk derailing a sensible system

Labour’s vaccine know-it-alls risk derailing a sensible system

As a paradoxical consequence of the UK’s vaccination success, politicians are now arguing about who should come next in the inoculation queue. Currently there are nine groups prioritised for Phase 1 of the vaccine roll out, with over 70s, care home residents and healthcare workers in the first four categories, and expected to be immunised…

Trump Names New Lead Lawyers for Impeachment Defense Team

Trump Names New Lead Lawyers for Impeachment Defense Team

Former President Donald Trump on Sunday named two attorneys who will lead his impeachment defense legal team. The two lawyers who will represent the former president in the upcoming Senate trial are David Schoen, an attorney from Alabama, and Bruce Castor Jr., a former prosecutor in Pennsylvania. This comes a day after media reports, citing anonymous…

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: The comedian has learned how to play tragedy

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: The comedian has learned how to play tragedy

The pandemic has changed Boris Johnson. He is better than he was a year ago at being the sombre bearer of bad tidings, the leader who expresses the nation’s grief. Both at yesterday afternoon’s Downing Street press conference, and today at PMQs and in his Commons statement, he struck the right note of unadorned sorrow….

Benedict Rogers: The Government urgently needs an integration plan for those fleeing oppression in Hong Kong

Benedict Rogers: The Government urgently needs an integration plan for those fleeing oppression in Hong Kong

Benedict Rogers is a human rights activist and writer and a former parliamentary candidate. He is the co-founder and Chief Executive of Hong Kong Watch, co-founder and Deputy Chair of the UK Conservative Party Human Rights Commission and a member of the advisory group of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC). On July 1 last…

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Biden Orders End to Private Prisons in Package to Achieve ‘Racial Equity’

Denouncing what he called “systemic racism that has plagued our nation for far, far too long,” President Joe Biden signed executive actions Tuesday aimed at “racial equity,” including a measure to end the use of private prisons to hold federal inmates.  “We are in a battle for the soul of this nation and the simple…