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Death by Padel

In the first six months of 2025, over 200 pubs in England and Wales closed their doors. This can by overwhelmingly attributed to the Labour government’s tax raid on the hospitality industry. For every £3 spent on pints and food in a pub, approximately £1 now goes to the taxman (British Beer and Pub Association […]

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God: The Political Animal

Winston Churchill’s address to the House of Commons on June 4, 1940 is widely considered the most important speech of the 20th century. The most well-known extract – “we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in […]

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Beware the Simple Solution

As I scavenged Gary Stevenson’s brash rhetoric on the internet for a deeper insight into his views, it dawned upon me that he was something I had not really come across before: a left-wing populist. The signs were clear; Stevenson thrives off of polarising language, extreme abstractions and one-size-fits-all solutions. Like his counterparts on the […]