Is This All Rather Futile?
Peter Morris November 18, 2024 Those who follow me on X, formerly twitter, know me pretty well, and I write quite prolifically,...
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Peter Morris
Nov 117 min read
Something I know a Bit About
Peter Morris November 12, 2024 Steel Making in the UK. I’ve spent much my working life (except the very early days) working with and...
Peter Morris
Oct 315 min read
The Black Hole
Peter Morris November 1, 2024 I do wonder why successive Governments are consistently under the illusion that throwing more and more...
KJM Today
Oct 264 min read
Older Drivers Facing Compulsory Fitness Tests
Felix Reeves October 26, 2024 Elderly drivers facing compulsory fitness tests before renewing licence could see 'whole generation cut...
Peter Morris
Oct 256 min read
Government: What Went Wrong?
Peter Morris October 25, 2024 We’re all well aware of the Conservatives’ shortcomings. Promises made, promises broken. Manifesto...
Lord Ashcroft/Kevan James
Oct 225 min read
Wanted - A Leader of Rare Quality
Lord Ashcroft October 22, 2024 The Conservatives need a leader of rare quality – for me that’s Kemi Writing today for ConservativeHome, i...
Peter Morris
Oct 164 min read
Make The Bed - Light The Light
Peter Morris October 16, 2024. We all know that men are not ‘domestic’ creatures. Creatures perhaps, but not exactly domesticated. I...
Kevan James
Oct 163 min read
Must The Conservative Party Die?
Kevan James October 16, 2024 Many people on social media express the view that the Conservatives have had their day and should be...
Sam Cramer
Oct 114 min read
The Big Debate - The ECHR; Leave or Stay?
Sam Cramer 11 October, 2024 There’s been a lot of talk about the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) recently and it seems...
Peter Morris
Oct 114 min read
Coping – and how Social media can help
Peter Morris October 11, 2024 Social Media has, in some quarters, a poor reputation, particularly those who move in government...
Kevan James
Oct 23 min read
A Question of Change
Kevan James October 2, 2024 Conservative leadership hopeful Tom Tugendhat has been quoted as using the word 'change' several times...
Peter Morris and Kevan James
Sep 283 min read
Honesty and Integrity in UK Politics
Peter Morris and Kevan James September 28, 2025 Peter Morris asks the most relevant political questions of the era: Seems to me pretty...
KJM Today
Sep 264 min read
UN Pact on Global Governance
Kevan James September 26, 2024 United Nations adopts ground-breaking Pact for the Future to transform global governance New York, 22...
The Northern Variant/Kevan James
Aug 123 min read
Multiculturalism Has Failed
The Northern Variant August 12, 2024. The issue at hand is that multiculturalism has comprehensively failed. Labour cannot admit this,...
PC Reed
Aug 114 min read
Deserved Thanks
PC Reed August 11, 2024 There has been a lot of criticism of the Police in recent times but what is often forgotten is that officers have...
The Northern Variant
Aug 113 min read
An Unreasonable Assumption?
The Northern Variant August 11, 2024 The government's enthusiasm for censorship comes in the wake of what has been described as a...
Zoe Crowther / Kevan James
Aug 109 min read
Can the UK Government Control Social Media?
Zoe Crowther and Kevan James Zoe Crowther August 10, 2024 The violent disorder across many UK towns and cities in the past few weeks...
Harvey Jones
Aug 43 min read
Labour - Bullying Pensioners But Letting Benefit Fraudsters Off
Harvey Jones August 5, 2024 Labour defends its move to scrap the winter fuel allowance for 10million pensioners by arguing that many are...
Peter Morris
Jul 173 min read
Labour Hitting The Ground Running
Peter Morris July 17, 2024 I can fully get my head around a new Government wanting to make an immediate impact. New broom and all that....
The Northern Variant
Jul 133 min read
Miliband's Fantasy
The Northern Variant July 13, 2024. When Ed Miliband talks about decarbonising the grid he's talking about replacing something that more...
Ruby Lott-Lavigna
Jun 236 min read
Cutting To The Heart of the UK’s Rental Housing Crisis
Ruby Lott-Lavigna June 24, 2024. Why were we evicted? I had to ask the new tenant to find out – and the reason cuts to the heart of the...
The Northern Variant
Jun 63 min read
D-Day - The Cause of War
The Northern Variant June 6, 2024. The lesson that technocrats took from the horrors of the second world war was that nationalism was the...
KJM Today
Jun 51 min read
Nigel Farage -What The Papers Said
June 5, 2024 Nigel Farage's 'Emergency Press Conference' on Monday June 3 unsurprisingly grabbed print and broadcast media attention,...
Pete North
Feb 72 min read
I Am Not A Populist
Pete North February 7, 2024. I am not a populist for thinking failed asylum seekers should be thrown out of the country instead of being...
The Rt Hon Suella Braverman MP
Nov 16, 20235 min read
Braverman's Resignation Letter
The Rt Hon Suella Braverman MP November 15, 2023. Dear Prime Minister, Thank you for your phone call yesterday morning in which you asked...
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