Douglas Carswell A French presidential election is due in a couple of weeks. Should one care? Will the outcome change anything? Not, I suspect, if incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy wins. We’ll have more Euro summitry and muppetry.  More bailout and borrow economics. More talk of reform, without much change.  Not to mention, more of the Love Actuallywith  [ Read More ]

Lex Ferenda I went to Dale Farm weeks ago now and was sent home as a learned judge decided that he wanted more time to consider the case of the travellers before he confirmed the eviction could go ahead. When the eviction eventually took place I was away on holiday. I saw on the news  [ Read More ]

Lex Ferenda Well, last night London was at peace again, although elsewhere in the country the feral youths went on the rampage encouraged by the scenes in London over the last few days. ‘Free stuff’ is too much of an attraction for the underclass who waste their lives rather than even think about becoming useful  [ Read More ]

Tom Newham Hell hath no fury like an indignant surge of twitter rage. Facebook too. Watching people’s reactions in real time on my twitter feed this evening was fascinating – though bear in mind that as twitter feeds go, mine is about as middle class as it gets. Mostly people offered their own solutions, most  [ Read More ]

Toby Quast I turned 16 recently and I started noticing things about South London. The most obvious of all is the paranoia of crime. Before my birthday I had cruised by, always looking too young to have anything of value on me. Although the chances of being mugged haven’t changed at all (unless all the  [ Read More ]