Through training, new investments and technologies we can demonstrate why counties across the UK can and will benefit from being part of our national mission to rebuild our defences, strengthen our resilience and create a renewed sense of unity. We can stop talking about what “Britishness” is and get on with living it.
Reducing the argument down to a binary decision seems to me to be a mistake. It really doesn’t need to be one or the other, and yet we have convinced ourselves that it must be so. Total abolition is not the only path forward, nor is keeping IHT exactly the way it is.
If Farage goes – and it remains an ‘if’ – the threat to the Conservative Party from its right will be diminished. It is a great opportunity but also creates a crucial strategic dilemma. The Conservatives can either attempt to fill the space Farage has left behind, or set out a platform with a broad appeal based on economic competence.
We cannot waste a moment more. Every day that passes is another day where thousands of low-skilled migrants become eligible for ILR. Time is of the essence. We must increase the ILR qualifying period for everyone in our country to 10 years and require low-skilled, low-wage immigrants to go home once their temporary work visas expire.
A mature society understands the difference between use and misuse, enjoyment and dependency, risk and recklessness. An increasingly paternalistic strain of campaigning refuses to acknowledge those distinctions.
Right now, we are a leading player in design and frontier technology in this area, partly because of our excellent education, culture, and historical inheritance, and partly because Net-Zero gave us a first-movers advantage. If we let these sectors wither, we are consigning ourselves to irrelevance and faster decline.
Conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean must defend a living culture; however, much retreating from the world and dismantling what’s left of our civilisation may seem desirable. There is still much to be conserved in America and Britain.
Burnham may have morphed the concept of “we talked right and governed left” into “we’re talking different, and governing the same”. It’s also possible we have the question he might try to pose in any 2027 election: ‘These are the things I want to do, and haven’t, yet. Now give me the mandate to keep spending on them’
Gove exposed the openly Marxist personal views and agitation of the “enemies of promise” shortly after taking office, and was hammered by 100 teacher trainers, including Cremin, I started reading their websites and found that he was telling the truth.
Ridership across the capital’s buses fell by a whopping 70 million journeys during 2025 alone. The amount that TfL has to spend to subsidise the bus network to compensate for a shortfall at the farebox has almost doubled an eye-watering annual £1.19 billion.
The Commons no longer has the time required to educate future premiers, which is one reason why they last such a short time in office.
There is a myth which is widely propagated by the Liberal-Left that the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is the pinnacle of human rights and is essential to protect us from such things as detention without trial and even torture.
If Labour wants victims to have the courage to report domestic abuse, it must give them something more than encouragement. It must give them confidence that when they finally speak, the state will stand between them and their abuser, and remain there when the prison gates open.
It is time the Tories just came out and defended the rich properly from the plunder they have constantly experienced since the end of the Second World War, speaking boldly in favour of largely inviolable private property rights. Will Badenoch do so? Probably not.