BY STEWART SLATER It has been about 15 years since I last saw my children. A prolonged separation (undertaken for what I perceived to be the greater good) led the court to conclude that too much water had flowed under the bridge and later, by the time they were re-located after a move overseas, age meant the legal options were limited to almost nil. I … Continue reading A Question of Justice
BY ALEX STORY The Sentencing Council’s recent guidance asking the courts to consider the ethnic, cultural, and religious minority status of offenders as potential mitigating factors when pronouncing a judgement is the modern equivalent of the passing of the Nuremberg Laws of 1935. Crime, according to our quangocrats, is no longer a function of a person’s sovereignty, it becomes the mechanical corollary of the arbitrary … Continue reading The Shamelessness of Evil
BY FRANK HAVILAND A letter from our friend Frank Haviland, Editor of the New Conservative UPDATE: Shortly after the court appearance referred to in this letter, Frank was jailed for contempt for 15 days. Dear Readers of The New Conservative, Please forgive my self-indulgence, but I write this brief note mainly in my capacity as editor to let you know what may be about to … Continue reading A Letter from the Heart
A Cautionary Tale of Free Speech and Misinformation Bernadette ‘Bernie’ Spofforth, the highly successful businesswoman, was among the first to use X (formerly Twitter) to falsely identify the suspect in the tragic killing of three girls outside a Taylor Swift dance class as a Muslim asylum seeker who had recently arrived in the UK by boat. As a result, Bernie was arrested and held in … Continue reading Bernie Banged Up
BY DANIEL JUPP One of the oddest things that has been accepted with little real challenge is the notion that there is such a thing as a ‘hate crime’. Throughout the western world we have seen legislative changes and judicial advice that embeds the new notion that a crime is particularly heinous if it is motivated by an entirely subjective interpretation of whether it was … Continue reading The Subjective Nature of ‘Hate’
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN According to the later versions of the Brothers Grimm tales, when Rumpelstiltskin – the imp who spun straw into gold in exchange for a girl’s firstborn – was rebuffed: “He in his rage drove his right foot so far into the ground that it sank in up to his waist; then in a passion he seized the left foot with both hands … Continue reading Social Currency – Fool’s Gold
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that my weekly article finds You well and healthy. I hope that Your families are fine and that You are not too badly hit by recent events. I know of families who have lost everything over the Covid lock-down and others who have thrived. Life is not fair but God is good. This week I would … Continue reading A Prayer for Justice
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are keeping well and that You and Your families are doing OK during these strange days. As I said yesterday to a neighbour I have not seen since March, it is lovely seeing humans again. Only in separation do we appreciate that We are social animals and, approaching three months on, even those with … Continue reading A Prayer for Justice
BY THE EDITOR & NIGEL BEAN The Bobby Roberts case involving Elephant Anne, as we have written about, is full of holes and replete with numerous red flags. Nicolae Nitu, who beat elephant Anne – he is now on the run from British justice and back in his homeland, Romania – was part of an animal rights’ group set up. Take the dodgy photograph of … Continue reading Bobby Roberts Was Set Up
