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Image Description: A badge with the words ‘stay sane’ and a protestor holding a sign with the words ‘Covid 1984’ Way back when, in the first lockdown, I was added to a fringe Facebook group for lockdown skeptics as a joke. Lockdown scepticism was the realm of only a few, mainly those who held extreme […]
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Image Description: Nigel Farage, Leader of Brexit Party The evening of 29th March was one of the greatest anti-climaxes in our history. The champagne remained unopened as the realisation dawned that after two and a half years of incompetent negotiation on the part of the government, Britain would not be leaving the European Union. As […]
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“This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle… This other Eden… This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, dear for her reputation through the world, is now leased out… England, bound in with the triumphant sea whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege of watery Neptune, is now bound in with […]
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And they’re off! Cue years of leaflets in the letterbox, knocks on the door, and people approaching you on the streets. What do they want to talk about? They’ll be asking you how you’ll be voting in the upcoming referendum on the EU. After you give them the wrong answer, you’ll have to stand there […]
Continue ReadingOver the Easter vacation I, like many of you, tuned in to the Europe debates between Nigel Farage and Nick Clegg. I did this for two main reasons, the first being that it’s great to see politicians making their trade more about the battle of ideas than any of the media circus of posing we […]
Continue ReadingGeorgia Luscombe tells us why Godfrey Bloom’s ‘Bongo Bongo’ comments were not only insensitive, they also demonstrated how naive the UKIP mindset is when it comes to foreign aid.
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