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On the Epstein conspiracy theories
Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York Since the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, there is a body of opinion that will not accept that his death was indeed suicide and that others must have been...
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The fork-tongued “devil dog” defenders
Kimbo (left) and his son Nico, who fatally attacked his owner’s four-year-old daughter Last weekend a video circulated of a terrier dog attacking people in a busy street in Birmingham, one of the...
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Boris Johnson: goodbye, and good riddance
A Spectator front page from 2005, edited by Boris Johnson, prompted by riots in Europe prompted by police brutality in France Last weekend, the former prime minister Boris Johnson stepped down from...
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Shamima Begum, ‘grooming’ and responsibility
Shamima Begum Last week it was revealed (or rather, re-reported, as this matter had been known for some time) that the man who helped Shamima Begum and her two friends over the Turkish-Syrian border...
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Rushdie, Khomeini and Muslims here and there
I was a child, and a long way from becoming Muslim, when the Rushdie affair happened. My mother was in college going through teacher training, and one of her college friends had a sister who was...
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Why the Tories broke the Covid rules
Boris Johnson This past two weeks or more, the news here has been dominated by revelations about the behaviour of Boris Johnson and his friends during the two lockdowns in Spring 2020 and Winter 2021...
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What is and what isn’t eugenics?
A nurse receives a Covid-19 vaccination As more and more of the British population has received vaccination against Covid-19, it has been reported that most of the people who are still becoming very...
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On imposing medical treatment without consent
A girl receiving an oral polio vaccine in Egypt (source) The other day the Muslim scholar and blogger Musa Furber published a brief article on his blog answering claims from some Muslims that Muslim...
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Relaxing drivers’ hours is a bad idea
Last week the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, announced that the government were going to be temporarily relaxing the maximum daily driving hours for truck drivers in the UK by an hour. Normally...
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The wrong time to end the mask mandate
The Sun’s front page, 6th July 2021 Yesterday, the government announced that most if not all the current rules and restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of Coronavirus, including the requirement...
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Dad names his child after his nana. World goes wild.
Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Sandringham, 2017 Last week Prince Harry’s and his wife Meghan’s second child was born, and they named her Lilibet Diana. The second name refers to Harry’s...
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National mourning?
Prince Philip’s coat of arms (explained here) Today Prince Philip died. Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark was the Queen’s husband and had the title Prince Consort and was known as the Duke of...
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Did Anthony Williams get lucky?
Ruth Williams Last Thursday a man who throttled his wife to death last March, shortly after the initial Coronavirus lockdown was imposed, received a five-year jail sentence after a jury accepted his...
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Zero Covid: totalitarian? A cult?
A small demonstration for Zero Covid in Britain outside Downing Street. (Source) I saw a piece by Freddie Sayers (former editor-in-chief of YouGov, now at UnHerd) billed as a look “inside the Zero...
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Where did Captain Tom’s money go?
Tom Moore as a second lieutenant during World War II. Earlier this week Captain Sir Tom Moore, a World War II veteran who raised £33million for NHS-related charities by walking miles in the form of...
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Vaccine ‘scepticism’ is not about religion
A Birmingham mosque being used as a Covid vaccination centre. Sneering scientists won’t win over anti-vaxxers by Giles Fraser (UnHerd) This article is sub-headed “Public intellectuals risk alienating...
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Subsidise eating in, not eating out
An Eat Out to Help Out poster from August 2020, Sheffield There was talk yesterday that the “Eat Out to Help Out” scheme, which ran through August and saw restaurants subsidised to offer a substantial...
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Why use Hermes?
An angry Hermes driver throwing parcels into the back of the company’s van This week a video appeared on social media and in some newspapers of a Hermes van driver picking up a cage full of parcels and...
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Expanded congestion charge is just an unjust tax
A map of the North and South Circular Roads within London (click for expanded map) It’s been reported over the last week or so that, in exchange for a government bail-out of Transport for London, the...
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A tax on progress
Outdated statues of the extinct iguanadon at Crystal Palace Park, London Today it was announced that the chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, was considering introducing an online sales tax,...
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