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'libdemmery': Britain's Progressive Cult
For three decades ‘libdemmery’ has set the political and policy agenda in the UK, moderating the worst excesses of socialists and greens while indulging…
May 6
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Reclaiming England's May Day - an anticipation
Let’s have back the festival Cromwell’s puritan work ethic tried to kill. Let’s celebrate life and growth, nature and land, good things, fine people and…
May 1
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Reclaiming England's May Day - an anticipation
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April 2025
Springtime in Yorkshire and time for talk of revolution in the polling booth
There will be no political earthquakes on Thursday, just a few disgruntled voters voicing their irritation and annoyance at the Westminster parties. And…
Apr 27
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Springtime in Yorkshire and time for talk of revolution in the polling booth
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How the political right lost its way (and why Frank Bruno is an Englishman)
The right is lost. It embraced the woke identity politics of the left as its new ideology. And people tell Frank Bruno he isn't English. Which, if you…
Apr 24
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Simon Cooke
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How the political right lost its way (and why Frank Bruno is an Englishman)
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The Myth of Britain makes our identity, we must make sure the story is passed on
It isn’t enough to celebrate the Britain of today, we need to celebrate 400 years of the United Kingdom and over a thousand years of England. And that…
Apr 15
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Simon Cooke
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The Myth of Britain makes our identity, we must make sure the story is passed on
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Liberty isn't the opposite of security, it's the basis for a safe, strong and successful country
The best security doesn't come from any sort of benign authoritarianism, from a sort of cuddly fascism, but from living in a world where we see out…
Apr 6
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Liberty isn't the opposite of security, it's the basis for a safe, strong and successful country
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March 2025
The pub is not the heart of the community. It is just where the beer is...
We need to save pubs, not for a myth of roaring fires and the welcoming light across a dark street, not for a lie about the heart of the community, but…
Mar 29
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The system works as designed but the system also doesn't work
It will be a long haul to recover from the error of 1988, which took twenty years to implement, but we need to start if we want a better and more…
Mar 21
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The system works as designed but the system also doesn't work
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Bradford's urban environment needs more greenery, parks and pleasantness not another grand development
Bettering Bradford will need a dramatic improvement in the economic realities of the city but rather than push water uphill focus on greening urban…
Mar 10
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Simon Cooke
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Bradford's urban environment needs more greenery, parks and pleasantness not another grand development
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My London is suburban, and none the worse for that
There used to be three Londons. The London of work, the tourists’ London, and the London of life. I was brought up in the last of these.
Mar 7
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My London is suburban, and none the worse for that
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February 2025
What 'Conservative YIMBY' should say (starting with we're not YIMBYs)
The Conservative Party is the party of the suburbs and it should simply say “we want to build a new suburbia and here’s how we’re going to do that”.
Feb 25
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What 'Conservative YIMBY' should say (starting with we're not YIMBYs)
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Englishness. Who gets to win life's lottery?
This is my idea of England and responds to a podcast where Konstantin Kison and Fraser Nelson, a Russian and a Scot, discussed how you get to be English
Feb 21
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Englishness. Who gets to win life's lottery?
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