BY STEWART SLATER People, Lee Kuan Yew argued, always vote for people who look like themselves. It is one of his lesser noted, but more praiseworthy achievements that the country he built disproves his dictum. Cross the causeway into Malaysia and you will find Malay parties, Indian parties and Chinese parties, but in Singapore, there is only really the People’s Action Party which squats across … Continue reading Transnational Tribalism
BY ALEX STORY Alastair Campbell has graced our TV studios a great deal of late. As the seventh anniversary of the vote on leaving the European Union came and went, he was the de facto cheerleader for the struggling institution. His main line of argument was and is that the people who campaigned for Brexit lied to a gullible and mostly ill-educated electorate. Because the … Continue reading Context Matters
BY ROBERT KIMBELL Has anyone asked a Remain politician recently why they’re still so dedicated to wedding the UK to the EU when it’s a bloc that forces us to pay tens of billions to be involved with it yet doesn’t import enough of our goods or services to enable us to have an equitable balance of trade with it? Almost inevitably, a Remain politician … Continue reading And Then They’ll Be Gone
BY JAMIE FOSTER Boris Johnson faces what must be a completely vexatious private prosecution by businessman Marcus Ball for misconduct in public office over the £350 million per week claim made during the referendum campaign. It is timed to come just as his leadership bid is being made. It is clearly a political stunt by a Remain campaigner that has no proper basis in law. … Continue reading Boris On Trial
BY SAM WHITE I thought things were going well. We were in the EU and Britain was being drained of its troublesome sovereignty as I, through my subscription to Everyday Feminism, was being radically unchained from my toxic masculinity. Brussels knows best. Who needs to know the names of the suits in charge anyway? They’re European, nice shoes, brandy on tap. They’re just better at … Continue reading Brexiteers Are Neanderthals
