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The Assisted Dying Bill: Compassion Is Not a Blank Cheque for the State to Decide Who Lives
Crime & Justice

The Assisted Dying Bill: Compassion Is Not a Blank Cheque for the State to Decide Who Lives

As MPs prepare to vote on legalising assisted dying, the real question isn't about compassion—it's about whether we trust the state with the ultimate power over life and death. Evidence from abroad suggests we shouldn't.

Degrees in Decline: Why the University Conveyor Belt Is Failing British Youth — and Who Profits From the Lie
Media & Politics

Degrees in Decline: Why the University Conveyor Belt Is Failing British Youth — and Who Profits From the Lie

Half of British school-leavers now attend university, saddling themselves with debt for qualifications that often lead nowhere. It's time to expose the higher education racket for what it is—a wealth transfer from young people to bloated institutions.

The Grooming Gangs Inquiry: Why Labour's Refusal of a National Statutory Inquiry Is a Betrayal of Every Victim
Crime & Justice

The Grooming Gangs Inquiry: Why Labour's Refusal of a National Statutory Inquiry Is a Betrayal of Every Victim

Keir Starmer's government has rejected calls for a full national statutory inquiry into organised grooming gangs, despite mounting pressure from victims' groups and even Labour backbenchers. This refusal prioritises political sensitivity over justice and represents a fundamental betrayal of the vulnerable children these gangs targeted.

Britain's Defence Dependency: Why We Can No Longer Afford to Shelter Under America's Umbrella
Media & Politics

Britain's Defence Dependency: Why We Can No Longer Afford to Shelter Under America's Umbrella

With Trump demanding NATO allies exceed 2% GDP defence spending and Russian aggression reshaping European security, Britain must urgently rebuild its depleted armed forces. Decades of underspending have left us dangerously exposed and dependent on American protection.

Surrender Culture: Why Britain Keeps Apologising for an Empire That Built the Modern World
Media & Politics

Surrender Culture: Why Britain Keeps Apologising for an Empire That Built the Modern World

From curriculum changes to statue removals, Britain's institutionalised self-flagellation has replaced honest history with weaponised guilt. A healthy nation requires balanced historical understanding, not ideological self-hatred.

The Great British Housing Scandal: How Planning Laws Became the Left's Secret Weapon Against Home Ownership
Environment & Energy

The Great British Housing Scandal: How Planning Laws Became the Left's Secret Weapon Against Home Ownership

Decades of restrictive planning regulations and green belt dogma have priced an entire generation out of home ownership. The planning system, not the free market, is destroying Britain's property-owning democracy.

The Two-Child Benefit Cap: The One Welfare Reform Worth Keeping — and Why Labour Scrapping It Would Be a Catastrophic Mistake
Media & Politics

The Two-Child Benefit Cap: The One Welfare Reform Worth Keeping — and Why Labour Scrapping It Would Be a Catastrophic Mistake

Labour faces mounting pressure to scrap the two-child benefit limit, but this rare Conservative welfare reform represents a vital principle: the state cannot be an unlimited underwriter of personal choices. Abolishing it would signal a return to the failed policies that created Britain's welfare dependency crisis.

Grammar Schools: The Left Closed the Door to Social Mobility and Called It Equality
Crime & Justice

Grammar Schools: The Left Closed the Door to Social Mobility and Called It Equality

Britain's progressive consensus against selective education has systematically destroyed opportunities for bright working-class children while protecting middle-class privilege. The evidence from high-performing selective systems worldwide shows grammar schools remain our best hope for genuine social mobility.

The BBC Licence Fee Is a Victorian Tax on a Streaming Age — It's Time to Pull the Plug
Media & Politics

The BBC Licence Fee Is a Victorian Tax on a Streaming Age — It's Time to Pull the Plug

Forcing every British household to pay £169.50 annually to fund a broadcaster that increasingly reflects the values of a narrow metropolitan elite is indefensible in 2026. The BBC's founding Reithian mission has been replaced by editorial drift that alienates the very taxpayers forced to fund it.

Small Boats, Big Lies: Why Every 'New Plan' to Stop Channel Crossings Has Failed — and What Would Actually Work
Crime & Justice

Small Boats, Big Lies: Why Every 'New Plan' to Stop Channel Crossings Has Failed — and What Would Actually Work

Despite years of government pledges and headline-grabbing schemes, illegal Channel crossings remain stubbornly high. Without genuine offshore processing, swift deportation agreements, and treaty renegotiation with France, Britain's border remains fiction rather than fact.

The Net Zero Delusion: How Britain's Green Obsession Is Bankrupting Families and Crippling Our Industry
Environment & Energy

The Net Zero Delusion: How Britain's Green Obsession Is Bankrupting Families and Crippling Our Industry

Britain's legally binding net zero targets are destroying working-class livelihoods whilst enriching green technocrats. The time has come to prioritise energy security and affordability over virtue signalling to international elites.

Stop and Search Works — So Why Does the Establishment Keep Trying to Kill It?
Crime & Justice

Stop and Search Works — So Why Does the Establishment Keep Trying to Kill It?

Despite overwhelming evidence of its effectiveness in reducing knife crime, stop and search faces relentless attack from progressive activists. The real victims of this campaign are the young lives lost to violence in Britain's cities.