GOVERNMENT
Wrestling With Realignment
Wrestling with realignment Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules OWEN POLLEY Unless you live in Northern Ireland, you might not have heard much about the […]
2026
COMMENTARY
Protocol for Social Division and Control: Camps 1, 2 and 3
Protocol for social division and control: camps 1, 2 and 3 Confidential UK government briefing paper (draft)* NIALL MCCRAE During the Covid-19 pandemic, society divided into two groups. The vast majority believed our messages on […]
COMMENTARY
Reviewing the Casey Review of the Metropolitan Police Service
The Baroness has no clothes PIMLICO JOURNAL Last year, Pimlico Journal credited Baroness Louise Casey for her Report on the Pakistani grooming gangs — the ‘National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse’ — for identifying […]
GOVERNMENT
Juristocracy
Lawyers, politicians and hubris DOMINIC ADLER Hermer and Starmer. The trouble with lawyers made flesh. An ex-policeman writing about lawyers? As the hard-boiled crime author Reed Farrel Coleman wrote, “When cops are on the job […]
GOVERNMENT
The Folly of Just Stop Oil: Ignorant Cranks Demanding Civilisational Suicide
CHARLIE HOWDEN Just Stop Oil protestors are not brave environmental warriors but ignorant cranks and self-regarding fools whose theatrical stunts reveal a profound detachment from reality. Gluing themselves to roads, hurling soup at priceless paintings, […]
COMMENTARY
Welcome to the Post-Literate World
Welcome to the post-literate world The shift from reading to video clips is rotting our brains NEIL O’BRIEN Reading is in decline. Instead, people spend more and more time staring at video. And more and […]
COMMENTARY
For the Health of the Country, the BBC Must Be Defunded
For the health of the country, the BBC must be defunded JOE BARON The TV license burdens hard-pressed households – struggling to meet inflated energy, food and council tax bills – with a compulsory charge […]
GOVERNMENT
Has Britain Entered a Political Death Spiral?
PETE NORTH Occasionally I will tune out of politics, especially when it goes quiet. It’s really not healthy to expose yourself to the daily torrent of miserable news without a break. The basic gist of […]
GOVERNMENT
The Sovietisation of Britain, Part II: From Five-Year Plans to Five-Year Waiting Lists
EDDIE CHALONER AND MICHAEL RAINSBOROUGH In an earlier piece for the Daily Sceptic, the case was made for the creeping Sovietisation of modern Britain across its social, cultural and institutional life: the management of speech, the bureaucratisation […]
ENVIRONMENT/CLIMATE HOAX
Net Zero – the Art of Believing 10 Impossible Things Before Breakfast
The global economy is battling another global energy crisis but Ed Miliband refuses to be shaken in his convictions. STEVE DAVISON Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ ‘I […]