A young man is dead, a murderer is jailed, and a police force is under investigation — but the rush to blame an entire faith community is as wrong as it is dangerous. This tragedy demands clarity, restraint and reform, not scapegoating says Pat Harrington. What Happened on Belmont Road Shortly before midnight on 3 … Continue reading
There is a Tony Blair problem. Not because the former Prime Minister still wields real power, but because too many in the political class continue to treat him as a sage rather than as the architect of a settlement that collapsed under its own contradictions. The Morning Star’s description of him as a “cadaverous incarnation … Continue reading
Nearly 60,000 warrants issued. Tens of thousands still outstanding. Victims waiting years. Defendants vanishing abroad. Channel 4’s Dispatches investigation into Britain’s fugitive problem arrives not as a curiosity from the margins of criminal justice but as a warning from its centre. What happens to public faith when appearing for trial begins to look less like an obligation … Continue reading
The British state pension has always been a curious hybrid—part social contract, part political theatre, part actuarial puzzle. It is sold to the public as a simple guarantee: pay in across a working life, and the state will ensure a basic income in old age. Yet the reality, as 2026 unfolds, is a system straining … Continue reading
There are moments in the life of a nation when the mask slips and the truth becomes unavoidable. Britain has spent forty years pretending that ownership is irrelevant, that global markets will provide, and that strategic industries can be traded away without consequence. Today’s announcement — that British Steel is set to return to public … Continue reading
How the UK Can Build Real Energy Sovereignty in an Age of Global Fragility If the global oil crunch marks the beginning of the age of energy fragility, then the UK faces a question it has spent decades avoiding: what does sovereignty mean when energy becomes the organising principle of global power? The country that … Continue reading