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Gilding the Lily
40+ min ago (1051+ words) Supporting small income tax cuts is gilding the lily if bracket creep and investment taxes reverse those cuts. It is gilding the lily to say investment will not be affected by increased taxes on investment. The problem remains a big…...
Why won't you take a knee for Nowak?
1+ hour ago (191+ words) Southampton is seething; some might even suggest that the "Tiber is foaming" " and the average punter has decided to hold the police, the state"s muscle, to account. Three simple words " "I can"t breathe" " have highlighted a glaring double…...
I have sympathy with Peter Murrell's toilet paper panic buying
8+ hour, 40+ min ago (264+ words) Let's leave aside for one moment Nicola Sturgeon's claim of ingenuous innocence in the matter of her husband Peter Murrell's splurging sprees " because apparently this savvy, forensically-minded stickler of a woman, the foremost politician of our age, is a ditzy…...
Trump is hollowing out America's intelligence agencies
2+ hour, 59+ min ago (801+ words) The Spectator Australia Trump is hollowing out America's intelligence agencies Donald Trump never loses the ability to astonish. Many people will have breathed a sigh of relief last month when the United States Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, announced…...
France's hidden immigration reality
3+ hour, 57+ min ago (302+ words) A people was there, stable, occupying the same territory for fifteen or twenty centuries. And suddenly, very quickly, in one or two generations, one or more other peoples substitute themselves for it. It is replaced, it is no longer itself....
Has America been hacking the phones of Kremlin officials?
8+ hour, 42+ min ago (288+ words) Using the technical capabilities of large international IT corporations and mobile communications, representatives of foreign intelligence agencies carried out the covert, unauthorized collection of various types of information from the devices of cyberattack targets. This is likely another chapter in…...
Aid cuts didn't cause ebola
8+ hour, 44+ min ago (1168+ words) The Spectator Australia Aid cuts didn't cause ebola Ebola is a very scary disease, the sort of nightmarish plague seen in a Hollywood disaster movie with gruesome symptoms and terrifying death rates. It starts with a fever and headache, confusingly…...
MP assisted dying hopes on life support
8+ hour, 46+ min ago (221+ words) A co-sponsor of Kim Leadbeater's failed assisted suicide Bill has privately admitted to constituents that MPs trying to ram through similar legislation are likely to fail. Peter Bedford was a leading cheerleader for euthanasia in the last parliamentary session. But…...
Vickrum Digwa is no Sikh
8+ hour, 42+ min ago (476+ words) British Sikhs have long been considered a model minority and an integration success story. The core teachings of Sikhism promote equality for all human beings. This is not merely in word, but deed. Go to any'gurdwara'anywhere in the world and…...
Henry Nowak and the problem with "anti-racism
8+ hour, 43+ min ago (954+ words) The Spectator Australia Henry Nowak and the problem with "anti-racism" To determine the proper response to the murder of Henry Nowak we must first dismiss those courses of action that would be in error. The establishment line, the one voiced…...