• Losing It: The Conservative Party and the 2024 General Election by Michael A. Ashcroft

    Updated: 2025-01-31 17:40:00
    This short review appears in the current Liberator - that's issue 427. You can download it for free from the magazine's website. Losing It: The Conservative Party and the 2024 General Election Michael A. Ashcroft Biteback Publishing, 2024, £10 pbk There are two people inside Lord Ashcroft. One is Mr Hyde, who co-wrote what was intended to be a damaging biography of David Cameron. It contained a baseless story about a pig's head, which useful idiots among the online left, as Hyde had no doubt intended, spread far and wide. But Losing It is written by the impartial psephologist Dr ...

  • Labour government walks into new envionmental controversy

    Updated: 2025-01-30 06:00:00
    The Independent reports that Chancellor Rachel Reeves has prompted fury over the environment with the growth plan she unveiled, including backing for a third runway at Heathrow Airport and for new roads, and sweeping away environmental protections in planning. The paper says that Shaun Spiers, executive director at think tank Green Alliance, has warned against "growth at any cost", saying:"The economic case for bigger airports and new roads is highly questionable, and it's crystal clear that pushing ahead with these will fly in the face of the UK's climate targets." While David Walsh of the World Wildlife Fund said that ...

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