The case against the Equality Act Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, author of a new report, argues that, while seeming benign, this landmark legislation has reduced us from being equals before the law to ‘protected characteristics on legs’. ALKA SEHGAL CUTHBERT The Telegraph reported this week that more than a dozen Oxbridge scholarships, bursaries and financial aid schemes have…
Rochdale Rape Gang Leader is Released from Prison After Just 14 Years as No. 10 Insists it is Powerless to Deport Him WILL JONES The leader of the notorious Rochdale grooming gang – convicted of 30 child rapes – has been released from prison today after serving just 14 years – less than six months per rape…
Global initiatives promise justice through economic restraint. In practice, they would make societies poorer and opportunity scarcer. VANCE GINN The latest attack on economic growth comes wrapped in moral language. Its advocates promise less poverty, greater equality, and a safer climate. Their policies would deliver less production, less investment, and fewer opportunities. That is managed…
IJOHN SURTEES Many of us can feel it in our bones, that sickening feeling that, because of government policy, we are sliding towards some sort of civil war. We don’t want it, we hope we are wrong, but almost everyday brings fresh evidence that it is, possibly, inescapable. Worryingly, it’s not just far right thuggish…
There is a problem with British politics. Dark money from abroad is being funnelled into our system. A complex web of interlocking charities, thinktanks, advocacy groups and campaign outfits is being bank-rolled to push a policy agenda onto the public that makes us poorer, puts us in hock to hostile powers and undermines working people….
