Latest power grab aims to silence independent voices by artificially boosting state-backed media on the world’s biggest video platform STEVE WATSON In a brazen move that reeks of authoritarian control, the UK government is pushing plans to seize influence over YouTube’s recommendation system. Their goal is to prioritise content from the BBC, and other state…
The Cause of England’s auto-immune disease: The Public Order Act (1986) MICHAEL REINERS Initially published in Conservative Home in March 2025 in April 2025, as “Michael Reiners: A Thatcher-era law now all but compels journalists to omit ethnicity details from crime stories”. My interview on the subject of The Public Order Act (1986), with Laurie Wastell,…
What’s in a name? Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed CHARLOTTE CHOLEY The assisted suicide Bill is back before Parliament. So, too, is the elite insistence on not calling it assisted suicide. In Britain, the campaign for legalisation has settled on the euphemism “assisted dying”: a phrase…
Who is Andy Burnham and what is he about? The PM-in-waiting gave a speech last week setting out his ideas about devolution, and has made some other interventions setting out his stall. Labour do have one big, consistent idea: raise tax and spend more. Burnham will do that for sure. But beyond that it is very,…
Another punch in the face for UK manufacturing CATHERINE MCBRIDE The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is not about the environment. It is just another tax. This time, it is an additional import tariff based on the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions per unit weight when the item was produced. And unlike regular tariffs, there are…
Andy Burnham, the clear frontrunner to become Britain’s next Prime Minister, has pledged to deliver the biggest council house-building programme since the post-war period as part of his “No 10 North” devolution agenda. It is a fine ambition. It is also, on the construction industry’s own arithmetic, somewhere between heroic and fictional — not because…
