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A lot of replies to this saying there was never a "sensible Brexit": it's an oxymoron; a fantasy. In other words, in effect, there is no practical/safe means to exit

Re-reading Hayek on Conservatism, one wonders if he'd interpret this period as Conservatives finally snapping: "Enough of this progressive drift!" while demanding deregulation and a 'return to free trade' (that

So I commuted into London from Bucks today, on business. Impressions... Amersham station car park was very quiet - at 8.30am. The platform had one other person on it. And

This is very well explained - well done, sir.However for me, it inadvertently surfaces why the phrase "White Privilege" is problematic. It *needs* explaining *and* softening, because by default it

COVID-19 is an attack on vulnerability: the elderly & frail; others with health weaknesses; ethnic minorities; precarious jobs; the low paid; the homeless; front line jobs; blue collar jobs; new

OK, I'll have a stab at Black Lives Matter vs White Lives Matter (and All Lives Matter). "BLM" has 'landed' across society because BLs still don't seem to matter as

Grimes appealing to reason, "thinking for yourself and not following the online mob" is the height of irony. This is however how Brexiters see themselves - considered sceptics who cut

A 'hidden history' of COVID-19 kicks off....https://twitter.com/toadmeister/status/1253241261483528192 It always comes to this: despite the wealth of info and expert opinion available, the small revelatory 'fact' is spotted amongst th

The emerging problem with this argument is with those making it e.g. Brendan O'Neill, James Delingpole, Paul Embery, Hitchins....I see a pattern.https://twitter.com/rolandmcs/status/1241603205773082624 Godfrey Bloom, Tim Martin.... Trump.....http

"It's time to start loosening the lockdown"."We have more ventilators, more hospital beds, more protective gear. Our doctors, nurses and ancillary staff are facing their test with unfussy heroism" Elsewhere

Not sure that the virus really cares if you're "a fighter" or not. I think I also heard Will Walden's message to Boris Johnson as "Come on old boy, sort

I suspect Mr 5% was trying to argue that the top 5% of the *salaried* is not the same as the top 5% of people (some of whom will have