One of the stories that managed to sink to the bottom of the news cycle this weekend was Downing Street hinting that the UK could be open to taking in…
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Last week, the ONS figures for April came in. They were, to put an inadequate word to the crisis, terrible. We now have the highest level of unemployment claimants for…
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The EU should beware Russians and Chinese bearing gifts in the Balkans
by Enver Hoxhajby Enver HoxhajThe Western Balkans has never triumphed without strategic clarity from Europe. After the culmination of the Kosovan war, EU leaders and the Western Balkan states met at a summit, in…
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“Lord, make me chaste – but not yet,” St Augustine famously said, as he sought to postpone his appointment with Christ’s demanding moral code. Much the same can be said…
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We are now into the start of the period where seasonal migrants come into the country in their tens of thousands to help farmers harvest their crops. It is estimated…
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The fight against the virus does not require a worldwide government. Experience has taught us that these battles take place on a local level. Governments or local authorities lock down…
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In 2019, I was lucky enough to be selected as the Conservative candidate for the East London seat of Leyton and Wanstead. One thing that occurred to me while talking…
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The battle of Waterloo was ‘won on the playing fields of Eton’ according to the Duke of Wellington. How fortunate we are to have a sports-mad, old Etonian for a…
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Boris Johnson faces another date with destiny. In a few months, the poor man has already seen off Jeremy Corbyn, the EU and its massed ranks of domestic fifth columnists,…
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Lockdown has inevitably changed how we look at work and may well have accelerated the possibility of remote working becoming the norm for many people. It is not a stretch…
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