Let’s be practical about Shamima Begum │ Jake Scott
British media has blown up over the last few days about the revelation of Shamima Begum, the London schoolgirl who, at the age of 15, fled the UK to join ISIS in their murderous...
Author: Jake Scott
Have we reached peak hysteria yet? | Jake Scott
“There will be a food shortage” – unfeasible, but forgivable. “The NHS will run out of key pharmaceuticals” – extraordinarily unlikely. “The buses will grind to a halt” – absurd, yet a welcome relief...
The Conservative Party’s dilemma on economical & social liberalism with young people | Chris Rose
In the latest YouGov survey, Jeremy Corbyn’s popularity has plummeted by 45 points in the last 18 months, fueled by his ambiguous stance on Brexit. It was inevitable after a year on ineffective opposition...
Macron, Theresa May and the time of reckoning for elitism │ Tom Colsy
London, United Kingdom – Prime Minister Theresa May survives a no confidence vote; led by the free-market Eurosceptic and internationalist Remain wings of her party – both she has polarised and neither she has...
“The Third Reich wasn’t real Fascism anyway” │ Marc James Beaton
Think, for a moment, about the modern day internet troll. You may well instantly conjure up an image of some twenty-something neckbeard who still lives with his parents who spends all day online, every...
Populism and the “People’s Vote” | Jake Scott
We all know the official story: Brexit was a “populist revolt”, a rare moment when the “silent majority” finally expressed their anger at the political changes they felt were beyond their grasp yet influenced...
Nobody has monopoly over decency; so why do Corbynites wrongly assume that they do? | Chris Rose
As the festive Christmas season has come to an end, with leftover turkey and remaining bottles of Prosecco being included into every meal, we’ve endured family gatherings with the subject Brexit thankfully not popping...
A no-deal Brexit is exactly what we’ve been heading towards │Louis Jacques
In 2009, the BBC television series The Thick of It introduced a brand-new word to the political vocabulary: “omnishambles”. It’s defined as ‘a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterised by a string of...
The NHS is a tool of authoritarianism │ Jake Scott
Provocative title aside, I like the NHS in principle. The desire to care for our fellow citizens is extraordinarily commendable, and it is one of the ultimate expressions of our Judeo-Christian heritage – but...
Christianity, conservatism and the populist tide│ Jason Reed
Five years ago, who could have predicted that Britain would today be in the process of disentangling itself from the EU, that right-wing parties would have sprung out of nowhere across Europe and that...
