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Twitter pretended to care about free speech – now with Elon Musk at the helm it’s set free from the woke left
“THE bird is freed”. That is what Elon Musk tweeted yesterday on the news that he has finally taken over Twitter, the emblem of which is a little blue bird.

Trevor Noah has to invent a racist backlash because liberals can’t stand color-blind societies
Trevor Noah used a whole segment to talk about the “racist backlash” that he claimed had followed Rishi Sunak’s appointment as this week’s British Prime Minister.

Rishi Sunak has been a consistent voice of sanity – now he needs to battle lunacy of our ballooning welfare state
SEVERAL times over the past 1,000 years of our history, we have had a year of the three kings. Well, 2022 turns out to be the year of the three Prime Ministers.

How to protest the protestors
I have been able to find a great deal of consolation over recent days in watching members of the public confronting protestors from the Just Stop Oil movement.

Our pathetic Government and rotten MPs are world-class at promoting themselves – how about thinking of us now?
WELL I guess the lesson of our politics is that things can always get worse. And worse they did get.

Liz Truss’ warning to America: You can’t just keep spending and ignoring voters
The joke in Britain is that the country is becoming like Italy – but without the weather. In other words – ungovernable.

Is what Conor Burns did really so appalling?
It wasn’t even a case of wham, bam, thank you man. It was just thigh touch – bam. Which is the sort of justice you can come up with only because there is such a mad sexual counter-revolution under way.

GOP should leave the empty-headed celebrities to the liberals
For years the political left has made fools of themselves by sucking up to celebrities. Both in election season and out of it, always it’s the same story.

Why are lazy MPs putting migrants who break our laws up in castles while law-abiding citizens scramble for a living?
The historic Camelot Castle Hotel in Tintage, Cornwall has been asked to provide rooms for illegal migrants under a £1million deal.

Things can always get worse
I want the Conservative party to be punished, and yet the instruments of punishment are unappealing.

No, Biden, the discussion about climate change hasn’t ‘ended’
President Biden insists the devastating impact of Hurricane Ian was a result of climate change.

I’m in trouble with the police
It is much easier to criticise anyone identifying a problem than it is to deal with the problem. If the chief constable of West Midlands Police was as threatening towards various Islamists as he is to me then I suspect he wouldn’t have all of the issues he does in his area.