Fraser Myers

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Deputy Editor at Spiked

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Articles

The disgraceful denial of two-tier policing

1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Fraser Myers

The criminal-justice system has become corrupted by multiculturalism. How can MPs still deny this? Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. A report by UK MPs into the policing of last summer’s riots claims to have found no evidence of ‘two-tier policing’.
Labour will bury British Steel, not save it

1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Fraser Myers

Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. In a rare Saturday sitting of parliament, MPs voted this weekend to allow the UK government to assume operational control of British Steel. The emergency legislation will be used to block the firm’s Chinese owner, Jingye, from closing down its two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. Full nationalisation is likely on the way.
‘Reverts’? The BBC is spouting Islamist talking points

2 weeks ago | spiked-online.com | Fraser Myers

There is now a staggering blindspot for Islamic fundamentalism. Share Topics Identity Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. We have become accustomed to the BBC adopting the language of trans activists.
This is no Liberation Day

3 weeks ago | spiked-online.com | Fraser Myers

These rash tariffs are not the way to challenge our failed globalist order. Share Topics Politics UK USA Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. When America’s ‘Liberation Day’ finally arrived yesterday, Donald Trump hailed it as a great moment for America. Still, he struck a strangely dark tone.
Why Rachel from Accounts cannot deliver growth

4 weeks ago | spiked-online.com | Fraser Myers |Brendan O'Neill

Labour is constitutionally incapable of unleashing Britain’s economic potential. Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Rachel Reeves has delivered an ‘emergency budget’ in all but name. The scale of the spending cuts set out in the UK chancellor’s spring statement today was itself a tacit admission of failure.
‘The war in Ukraine has been fought in soundbites’

4 weeks ago | spiked-online.com | Fraser Myers |Matt Ridley

Mark Galeotti on Trump, Putin and what peace in Ukraine might look like. Share Topics World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. ‘Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.’ ‘Putin must fail.’ Ukraine’s path to NATO is ‘irreversible’. These are just some of the soundbites we’ve heard from Western leaders since Russia’s 2022 invasion.
Lockdown: a reckoning

1 month ago | spiked-online.com | Fraser Myers

Share Topics Covid-19 Long-reads Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. ‘You must stay at home.’ Five years ago today, on 23 March 2020, then prime minister Boris Johnson uttered those five words in a televised address to the nation, ushering in the first ever lockdown in the UK. During the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdowns were presented as a sensible, necessary precaution to slow the spread of this deadly, novel virus by reducing human contact.
Kemi is right to rip up the Net Zero target

1 month ago | spiked-online.com | Fraser Myers

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has called for the UK to scrap its Net Zero target. In a speech earlier today, she branded the drive to decarbonise the economy in the next 25 years ‘impossible’ and warned that it poses a ‘threat to living standards’. Badenoch’s basic point is inarguable. Even just in terms of energy policy, the mounting costs of Net Zero are now unignorable.
Mark Carney is wrong about everything

1 month ago | spiked-online.com | Fraser Myers

Canadians have a new prime minister. After a leadership election in the ruling Liberal Party, it’s out with the woke globalist, Justin Trudeau, and in with the woke globalist, Mark Carney. Extraordinarily, in an age where justified populist rage against an out-of-touch establishment is spreading across the globe, Canadians have ended up with a leader who embodies that very establishment. In many ways, Carney is the technocrat’s technocrat. A bone fide citizen of nowhere.
A coup against Romanian democracy

1 month ago | spiked-online.com | Fraser Myers

The exclusion of the frontrunner from the presidential elections is an outrage. Share Topics Politics World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. So this is what passes for democracy in Europe nowadays. The frontrunner in Romania’s presidential elections has been banned from participating.