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🏗️ Bulldozing bureaucracy? 🏡 Our out-of-control planning laws are bats🦇, warns Michael Binyon from The Times. Can the Government really bring the wrecking ball to red tape?. Listen to The Capitalist wherever you get your podcasts #TheCapitalist #ukhousing
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The UK needs to wake up to the fact that the Chinese Communist Party is now directly attempting to corrupt British democratic traditions and systems, constrain our journalists, and limit academic freedom of expression.
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Hong Kong's National Security Law means MPs are at risk of imprisonment for what they say in Parliament.
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No Chinese court has ever ruled against the Chinese Communist Party. Are we really meant to believe that, if lent on by the might of the Chinese state, Huawei would stand firm and risk everything it had to challenge them?.
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Press freedom is a litmus test for freedom itself - when it's under attack, the last vestiges of liberty are at stake. And in Hong Kong, it's just been killed. @benedictrogers.
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Whoever gets to build this system will have tremendous power, tremendous responsibility and potentially tremendous leverage over the UK: if you’ve built it, you know how to break it. Can we trust China with this critical infrastructure? .
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COMING UP SOON! . The @CPSThinkTank Margaret Thatcher Conference returns!. 🗣 With Trade Sec @AnnieTrev, @FraserNelson, @HonTonyAbbott, @DavidGHFrost, @alanwwolff, Peter Mandelson and many more. 📌Central London. 📅Nov 22nd. Get your tickets now 👇.
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Mr Perry made a choice in making his services available to the Hong Kong legal system. Now he must make another choice as to whether he stands with the oppressors or the oppressed.
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"In the decades I’ve been watching Labour politics, this is the single stupidest idea I’ve ever heard.". @OliverKamm piles into Richard Burgon's 'Peace Plan' proposal.
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Best of 2020: . It's time to stop acceding to China's rise and fight it properly.
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The idea of women organising in defence of their rights is triggering to some people.
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"Statements alone, however strongly worded and very welcome, no longer cut it. ". @benedictrogers on what the UK should do to help the people of Hong Kong.
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Taiwan’s defence of Hong Kong’s democracy movement and assistance to Hongkongers fleeing repression in their city is second to none.
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'It is absurd that we continue to import gas from other countries thousands of miles away while ignoring the gas we have under our feet'. ✍️ @SteveBakerHW. ✍️@Cmcallister008.
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Best of 2020:. If the Chinese government were a person, it would surely be guilty at least of manslaughter.
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Is the Hong Kong government so short of lawyers that they need a British QC.
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HSBC has clearly decided which side its bread is buttered on, choosing the deep pockets of Beijing over those fighting for freedom in Hong Kong.
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China has politicised foreign aid - Britain shouldn't be afraid to fight back.
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The Bank of England's Brexit forecasts aren't just wrong, says @andrew_lilico. They're absurd
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Mr Perry made a choice in making his services available to the Hong Kong legal system. Now he must make another choice as to whether he stands with the oppressors or the oppressed.
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HSBC has clearly decided which side its bread is buttered on, choosing the deep pockets of Beijing over those fighting for freedom in Hong Kong.
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The Uighurs deserve their day in court – this legislation could finally offer it.
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HSBC also froze the accounts of several pro-democracy supporters and suspended the account of exiled Hong Kong politician Ted Hui.
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The shortlisting of Salma Yaqoob for West Midland's Mayor is a new low for Corbyn's Labour .
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Sanctions often do little more than register our disapproval of a particular country
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'The case is one of the most egregious breaches of the Sino-British Joint Declaration since the handover.' @benedictrogers; @hk_watch.
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From fisheries to defence, the PM's Brexit deal is riddled with serious problems
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China is finally seeing that its 'wolf warrior' diplomacy can be counter-productive, says @benedictrogers.
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Countries like the US have already sanctioned officials over human rights abuses in Hong Kong. Britain cannot for any longer afford to be lagging behind on this issue.
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If you're from Tibet, Xinjiang or Hong Kong, the 'China Dream' is more like a nightmare.
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This clampdown in Hong Kong has one purpose - total suppression of democracy.
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East Germany was a place of “full employment, social equality, cheap housing, transport and culture”. Not the words of a crusty Marxist academic, but Jeremy Corbyn's top adviser.
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'Changing pronouns can start a child a on a path at the end of which lies a lifetime as a medical patient with serious complications – why would any school allow that?'. Asks @NickFletcherMP .
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"There has always been an Irish-American lobby with the sort of enthusiasm for the republican struggle that only five and a half thousand of miles of ocean between you and the bombs can really engender. ".
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The idea you're only 'really' black if you hold certain views is straight up racism, writes @NeilDotObrien.
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Why a second referendum is in nobody's best interests - even remainers'.
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🚨New Nimby Watch!. ✊This week, we're off to a mystery site in London, where a veteran Lefty is opposing new social housing and student accommodation…. ✍️@JonnElledge.
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Holyrood has a created a Gretna Green for people who want to change their gender without safeguard. ✍️ @MForstater .
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Labour say their tax plans won't hit anyone on over £80,000. If you own your own business, that's very far from true. More here:
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If you're from Tibet, Xinjiang or Hong Kong, the 'China Dream' is more like a nightmare.
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May must go now for the Tories to have any hope of winning the next election
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When the British flag was lowered over Hong Kong, many hoped for a new relationship between China & the West built on shared values. In the last year, the city which was once a beacon of internationalism, trade & freedom has seen those hopes extinguished
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Too many BBC journalists are striving for celebrity and likes, rather than to provide impartial, informed analysis, argues FT Contributing Editor John Lloyd.
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Refusing the EU's current offer is the first step to making a success of Brexit
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Young journalists in Hong Kong are set to be tried in secret and face life imprisonment - it's time for the world to start imposing sanctions on China @benedictrogers.
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Chris Patten is right, the EU-China trade deal is a huge strategic blunder, says @benedictrogers.
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It would be wrong to think that Beijing’s takeover of Hong Kong is the end of the matter. Indeed, it is just the beginning. Next it's Taiwan, warns @benedictrogers .
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'Corbyn has been admirably clear about his intentions. Raised business taxes. Nationalisation on an unprecedented scale. Over-prescriptive regulation. Trade unions taking control. An end to the ability to pass family businesses on to the next generation.'.
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.@benedictrogers: Now even the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell called on Europe to “correct” the imbalances in its relationship with this “new empire”.
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The fact European politicians are finally standing up to China shows two things, says @benedictrogers.
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With relations between the UK and China becoming tense, private schools should seek new markets.
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Hong Kong is steeped in optimism and entrepreneurship – how Britain could use a bit of both
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"The BBC doesn't inform or entertain any more, so I've cancelled my TV licence.". @_HelenDale has had enough of weak attempts at pop culture and "woke nonsense imported from the US".
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"Here we have a film intended to show how Labour’s antisemitism scandal wasn’t real, which deals obsessively with how Jews control British politics. ". New from @stephenpollard on 'The Big Lie' ✍️.
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China’s state media has publicly declared that the goal in regard to the Uighurs is to “break their lineage, break their roots, break their connections and break their origins.” . The UK must act, says @benedictrogers.
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The frontline in the fight for freedom has shifted from Hong Kong to Taipei, says @benedictrogers.
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.@KemiBadenoch will lead a confident, self-assured party with a clear vision. ✍️ @JustinTomlinson.
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Nicola Sturgeon is telling Scots their pensions will keep being paid by London after independence. does she really think anyone will believe her?. @MrTCHarris is sceptical, to put it mildly.
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.@matthewlesh: It really does seem we could sacrifice a deal with the EU for the worst possible reason.
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Too many journalists are striving for celebrity and likes, rather than to provide impartial, informed analysis - in the long run, this will be fatal for the BBC, argues FT Commissioning Editor John Lloyd.
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Young journalists in Hong Kong are set to be tried in secret and face life imprisonment. It's time to impose sanctions on China, says @benedictrogers.
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Since Raisi became president, not a day has passed without protests inside the country and clashes are getting more violent day by day.
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Gladstone's record on reform and abolition is something to be proud of, not undemocratically erased by back-room bureaucrats, argues @DrDavidJeffery .
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The EU hasn't got a clue how it will plug the hole that Brexit has blown in its budget
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It's curious that few people have picked up one of the main reasons why driver shortages have become a problem
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It appears someone called a radio station and spoke about a four year old article of ours there is an important clarification in the header and footer of the article
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Shamefully, it has now emerged that the Scottish Government knew in February that cases of coronavirus were present in Edinburgh. Not only did they not inform the public, but they failed to contact or test those potentially exposed to this deadly virus.
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Wouldn’t a 'fair share' be the one that the EU negotiated itself with vaccine producers?.
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There have been tactical blows, but Boris Johnson's strategy is as sound as ever says @DouglasCarswell
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78% of British Jews would prefer a no-deal Brexit to the prospect of Corbyn becoming prime minister.
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'If you want to talk about systemic racism, here is an entire organisation – an entire woke and preachy as hell organisation – which thought there was nothing wrong with using an overtly Jewish name for its grasping villain.'. Writes @nicolelampert.
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Pushing back against Iran and Turkey should be the top US priority in the Middle East, says @Dr_Rafizadeh.
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Children have missed out on so much – now more than ever we should set the highest possible standards.
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Handled properly, Brexit has the potential to raise the standard of living in the UK
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Remain And Leave Voters Are Surprisingly United On Backing A Harder Brexit, According To This Study, via @jamesrbuk
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'Freedom and free markets are the only way to create prosperity. Those on the left who claim there is some other way are fooling themselves. The British people are more sensible than that.'. Says @DavidGHFrost at the launch of @cwforward.
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For Jews to compare the treatment of the Uighurs to the Holocaust speaks volumes, says @benedictrogers.
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Safety concerns about fracking are completely spurious - but the risk of people dying due to sky-high gas prices are all too real.
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Why that figure might not be all that it seems:.
"Austerity has caused the death of over 130,000 human beings in Britain.". The moment Francesca Martinez spoke out on @BBCQuestionTime. She's written a play for us - called #AllOfUs - about the struggle to survive for those who don’t fit in:
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A feminism unable to deal intelligently with motherhood is already in a weak position. @_HelenDale for CapX ⬇️.
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'Until the EU side stops listening to the wrong people, it stands little chance of changing course. Its actions will, I now suspect, push Britain towards precisely the full-scale realignment it claims not to want.' argues @DouglasCarswell.
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The Brexit Party are much more than a bunch of disaffected Tories or Little Englanders
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If the Tory leadership had a similar backstory to the Labour team, they would be reviled
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'Protecting the NHS' should not mean inadequate care for people who are sick
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A court's finding that 2 police officers were unfairly disciplined to mollify Sinn Fein raises the question of why Northern Ireland is still run on the principle that Republicans must be appeased at all costs. Says @3000Versts.
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Dominic Cummings and his team are trying to do in three months what May had three years to do says @DouglasCarswell
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