September 2025: The month the dystopias came true
6 OCTOBER 2025 | OPINION
Orwell warned of surveillance, Huxley of control through comfort, Kafka of faceless justice, Bradbury of thought turned into crime. In...
First, they came for the citizens…
26 SEPTEMBER 2025 | OPINION
Digital ID cards – the so-called ‘BritCard’ – will be an unmitigated, nationwide disaster. A disaster for the freedom of...
Unbiased news is our bulwark against chaos
25 SEPTEMBER 2025 | OPINION
On 8 September, BBC1 breakfast time news headlines referred to the two men who machine-gunned six people at a bus...
Collaborator: How Starmer, in your name, made you an accomplice to...
23 SEPTEMBER 2025 | OPINION
I. The Betrayal
I was on GB News the morning Britain recognised Palestine, and by accident I went viral. That in...
Ambackador – PMQs 10th September 2025
11 SEPTEMBER 2025 | OPINION
News just in (11am on 11 September): Lord Mandelson has been sacked from his post as Ambassador to the USA.
Some...
The disaster we need? – PMQs 3 September 2025
3 SEPTEMBER 2025 | OPINION
Before we begin…
We need a new approach to Prime Minister’s Prevarications.
According to Dominic Cummings, Sir Keir can’t do the job...
Starmer’s reshuffle: Reeves frozen out?
2 SEPTEMBER 2025 | OPINION
Yesterday, the Prime Minister announced a personnel reshuffle in Number 10. Darren Jones, previously Reeves’ deputy at the Treasury, has...
ROUND-UP: From Pol Roger to White Lightning – how migrant hotels...
26 AUGUST 2025 | OPINION
August was sold as a vintage for Westminster: migrant hotels closing, Lucy Connolly finally silenced, and Trump’s Alaska summit setting...
Are we really lawless, or do we just think we are?
20 AUGUST 2025 | OPINION
Probably among the most basic and reasonable human desires is to live in safety. Ever since we’ve been bashing rocks...
July wasn’t a dream – that happened
7 AUGUST 2025 | OPINION
Votes for kids. Trains to Berlin. Corbyn’s comeback. Trump outshining Starmer. If you thought you were hallucinating, you weren’t. July...