Georgia L Gilholy is a journalist. In another cheerful turn of events, the government is encouraging the British public to stockpile food in case of a Russian cyber-attack. While some on the Right will no doubt accuse Downing Street of scaremongering, the issue is a live one. Moscow is already engaged in extensive “grey zone” warfare across…
GUIDO FAWKES Andy Burnham has hired a former director of leftist campaigning outfit Hope Not Hate as his new head of political strategy in No10, according to Sam Coates. Buckle up… Matthew McGregor was Director of Campaigns & Communications for Hope Not Hate from January 2018 to October 2021, after which he was appointed CEO of activist…
The Quango Chamber Starmer could not abolish the House of Lords, so he has settled for abolishing its reputation instead GAWAIN TOWLER There is more than one way to burn down a house. You can put a torch to it, which takes nerve, or you can let it out to tenants so dreary that the…
In short, the Home Office desires a three-tier police service, loosely modelled on the continental system What then, is the Home Office seeking to deliver? And why are the reforms especially attractive to a Labour government? In short, the Home Office desires a three-tier police service, loosely modelled on the continental system. This involves establishing…
BEN PILE It has been quite warm. And on some people’s views, this is a sign of things to come – slightly warmer weather means that Britain is going to be torn from her foundations by the elements that made her. Yet the heatwave, which, after all, as far as most people are concerned, is…
The corridors of Westminster are haunted by a quiet, bureaucratic coup that has successfully decoupled the act of law-making from the nuisance of democracy. For decades, we have comforted ourselves with the textbook fiction of parliamentary sovereignty—the grand idea that no law can bind the British public unless it has been weighed, debated, and voted…
