The high street you knew has gone forever Clamping down on bookies and vape shops is not going to save it CHRISTOPHER SNOWDON Bad news for all the people queuing up to open a betting shop in Burnham’s Britain. The Prime Minister is going to give local authorities more power to stop bookies and amusement…
UK imports record amounts of electricity (costing £2 bn?) so far this year – because wind and solar don’t generate power in a heat wave! Expect the UK price cap for energy bills to climb another £200 in October and easily breach the £2,000 mark? PETER HALLIGAN From here: Drought forces Britain to pay more…
Sir John, Lord Redwood is a former MP for Wokingham and a former Secretary of State for Wales. Polling says that rail and water nationalisation are popular. Labour is rediscovering its inner drive for state control, throwing away the Blair years when free enterprise was largely accepted. However, Ministers and their advisers should pause and…
The Left is finally paying the price for its idiotic belief in open borders Middle-class progressives love to welcome illegal immigrants into Britain, right up until they land on their own doorsteps MICHAEL DEACON [Burnham] announced that, when it comes to accommodating asylum seekers, “all parts of the country” must “play their part”. And when…
The current drought is, predictably, attracting the usual hyperbole: unprecedented; the hottest; the driest summer ever or, ‘since records began’. It is, of course utter nonsense, and the immediate response to hosepipe bans an indication of the utter irresponsibility of the ruling class to provide adequate infrastructure for this woefully governed country. We all know…
Fear, favour and failure: the crisis in British policing After high-profile cases where forces have failed to protect the public or overstepped the mark in relation to free speech and journalism, read Claire Fox’s speech on problems with the police today. CLAIRE FOX Reading this account from the BBC of how a sexual predator, Simon Levy –…
