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2 days ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Glover
Let’s assume Sir Keir Starmer wants to win the next election. Let’s also assume he has no desire to be replaced as Prime Minister in the next year or so by Wes Streeting or Angela Rayner or anyone else. He’s a politician, after all, and politicians relish power – Starmer more than most, I would think. I also suggest that he’s at least averagely intelligent, and should be able to weigh up the chances of any policy succeeding.
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2 days ago | 
the-tls.co.uk | Joan Williams |Nicola Shulman |Stephen Glover |James Robins
Sarah Wynn-Williams’s Careless People is a compulsively readable account of the effects of social media on democracy. Facebook’s former director of global public policy, Wynn-Williams left the company in 2017. This is an addictive exposé of her time there, filled with explosive allegations.
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4 days ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Glover
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could one day genuinely praise Sir Keir Starmer. How I would love to say that, yes, for once our stodgy Prime Minister has shown a smidgen of vision and inspiration.
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1 week ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Glover
Nigel Farage is the most significant Right-wing politician since Margaret Thatcher, whom he idolised. He left the Tory Party not long after she was jettisoned, and kept her candle burning bright over many years. Will he, as his heroine triumphantly did, save this country from economic decline, ever higher taxes, bolshy trade unions, and a bloated and often inefficient state? I used to think he was our best, perhaps our only, hope to rescue us from the mess we’re in. Now I am less sure.
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1 week ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Glover
There is a long standing convention that democratic leaders shouldn’t lecture other democratic leaders about how to run their countries. That precept has been torn up by Donald Trump. The man who may be the most immoral and mendacious president in American history – which is saying something – has taken it upon himself to lecture the British Government about free speech.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Glover
What a wonderful thing it is to have such an honest Government and a Prime Minister whose priority is always to tell the absolute truth!For many months, until a couple of weeks ago, Sir Keir Starmer and senior ministers have been reassuring us time and again that they had ‘no plans’ to introduce ‘a youth mobility scheme’, which would allow young Europeans to work, study or just lounge about in the UK for up to three years. No plans, declared Sir Keir last September.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Glover
Nigel Farage famously declared that June 23, 2016 – the day of the EU referendum – would go down in history as ‘independence day’. I wonder how the history books are going to remember Monday, May 19, 2025. Will they conclude that this was the day when Sir Keir Starmer began to hand back the independence for which the British people voted nearly nine years ago?
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3 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Glover
We all know that the BBC is biased over Gaza. It can’t bring itself to describe Hamas as a terrorist organisation, which it obviously is. The Corporation has sometimes been too quick to blame the Israeli Defence Forces. In November 2023 it claimed an IDF missile had caused the deaths of dozens of people in a hospital before it transpired that a Hamas rocket had gone astray.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Glover
By far the most interesting thing about today’s White Paper on immigration is that it is happening at all. Labour is the midwife of the mass migration experienced by this country during the past quarter century. Tony Blair’s administration released the floodgates, and the Tories later rashly opened them even wider. For many years Labour not only applauded the unprecedentedly large numbers of people entering this country.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Glover
Will the Conservatives survive as a major political force? I can hardly believe I have asked that question. They are the most successful party in human history. They’ve been around since 1834 – longer if we include an earlier faction known as the Tories. Could they really go the way of the dodo, fax machines and floppy disks? After last week’s local elections – in which the Conservatives lost every council they had controlled – their possible extinction no longer seems an idle thought.
