Opinion
Should all drugs be legalised now?
Most certainly drugs should be legalised, because prohibition causes far more devastation than the drugs themselves. It pushes the production and distribution of these compounds into the hands of criminal cartels. It endangers users and obstructs scientific research and the careful creation of policies created to protect the health of citizens and generates vast untaxed profits which leads to corruption, violence and avoidable human suffering. The 50-year war on drugs has been a disaster. It was obviously doomed from the...
What if Jeremy Corbyn had crashed his car?
Picture this. Jeremy Corbyn is driving through Islington on constituency business. He pulls out of a side road too fast and collides with another car, carrying a woman and a nine-month-old baby. The woman suffers a broken wrist, but Corbyn and the baby are unharmed. When Corbyn is pulled from the car, he says “I’m such a fool” and tells police he was ‘dazzled by the Sun.’ Two days later, Corbyn is seen driving a new car and not wearing...
The Tories have been trying to scrap the Human Rights Act for years – now they have their chance
This weekend’s revelations that Theresa May is considering axeing the Human Rights Act after Brexit should come as no surprise. The party responsible for the Windrush scandal and other hostile immigration policies have been hamstrung by compassionate elements of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) for years. Proposals to reform human rights law were included in the Conservative party manifesto in 2015, putting in writing age-old promises to “break” the link between the British court and the European court...
Bojo proves we are simply switching control from Europe to Eton
So much of the European Union referendum was about “taking back control”. Today, now fallacies around money for the NHS, economic freedom and immigration have been cast aside it is one of the few arguments Brexiteers have left in their armoury when defending their rationale for voting out. But if we are indeed to take back control when we leave the EU, then who are we giving it to? Well, if today’s speech from Boris Johnson is anything to go...
The next time you’re told to respect the referendum result, show them this
Theresa May reiterated once again that she will “respect the result of the referendum” this week as she took questions from Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs. The Prime Minister reverted back to her default position amidst mounting pressure from politicians to hold a second referendum. According to the latest polls the UK would vote to stay in the European Union by a huge 12 percentage points if it was given another vote. It is the highest level since the Brexit referendum...
No one can really have confidence in this Government
Faith is a fickle thing in politics, but few of a sound mind could say they have confidence in this Government anymore. In the space of just a month the Conservatives have faced two confidence votes, been found in contempt of parliament for the first time ever and lost a meaningful vote on their flagship policy by the biggest margin in history. The government also managed to award a $17.5 million contract to provide ferry services to a company with...
It’s time for May to face up to the white elephant in the room
Theresa May was left staring into the abyss last night after more than two-thirds of MPs voted against her Withdrawal Agreement with the European Union. It was an unprecedented moment in British political history and one that leaves the Prime Minister in a precarious position. Even if she manages to survive today's no confidence vote - the second tabled in just over a month - she will be left trying to unite the same divided party in order to deliver...
Brexit’s radical agenda should horrify conservatives
What exactly is so conservative about Brexit? That’s ‘small c’ conservative. And it’s a question that’s rarely been asked over the last three years. Most people, on both sides of the debate, seem to take for granted that conservatives are and ought to be in favour of leaving the European Union. This has led to extraordinary attacks on ‘big c’ Conservatives like Anna Soubry, whose opposition to Brexit has been painted as a betrayal of Tory values. But is that...
It’s time to bust the biggest Brexit myth – that the UK holds all of the cards
Ever since the campaign to leave the European Union began the British public have been subjected to a barrage of fabrications, myths and downright falsehoods in a bid to drum-up anti-EU sentiment. Misinformation has become almost synonymous with the Leave Campaign, whose own director even admitted that they won by lying to the public. They lied about the NHS, they said striking a free-trade deal with the EU will be “the easiest thing in human history”, they fuelled anti-immigrant rhetoric...