\nWhy is the civil service failing?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
McSweeney\u2019s departure, more than any other, has seemed to open the way for Starmer\u2019s government to lurch leftwards. The Prime Minister is set to announce that \u2018the Britain of the Brexit years\u2019 is no more at the Munich Security Conference, signalling his desire to realign with the EU. Paired with the reversal of Brexit, or \u2018dynamic alignment\u2019, is the government\u2019s commitment to Net Zero. Starmer and Miliband are currently negotiating<\/a> Britain\u2019s rejoining the EU\u2019s internal electricity market. Meanwhile at home, the government\u2019s tack leftwards can be witnessed in Bridget Phillipson\u2019s \u2018gender guidance<\/a>\u2019 for teachers which will allow pupils to use their preferred pronouns in class.<\/p>\n
A couple of weeks ago Michael Gove wrote<\/a> a critique of influential human rights lawyers. This week\u2019s Divisional Court ruling to uphold Palestine Action\u2019s challenge to the government\u2019s \u2018terrorist organisation\u2019 proscription (made last June by Yvette Cooper) might be seen as part of a similar problem. The government\u2019s proscription was ruled \u2018disproportionate\u2019 by a High Court judge. In The Spectator, Richard Elkins shows<\/a> how the Human Rights Act has been weaponised to undermine parliamentary government.<\/p>\n
\nThe guilty men: the ideologues who undermine Britain<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
On Wednesday, Sir Jim Ratcliffe sent the mainstream media into a frenzy after an interview with Sky News. He remarked<\/a> that \u2018the UK\u2019s been colonised [by immigrants]\u2019. Ratcliffe referred to the spike of immigration since 2020 (known as the \u2018Boriswave<\/a>\u2019) and its burden on state healthcare. As co-owner of Manchester Utd it sent the football commentariat into sanctimonious hysteria<\/a>. It also provoked the Prime Minister to call<\/a> on Ratcliffe to apologise; \u2018Britain is a proud, tolerant and diverse country.\u2019 This follows events this week which include a 13-year-old Afghan knifing two pupils at a secondary school in Brent and the arrest of two Islamic extremists who were planning to massacre Mancunian Jews.<\/p>\n
Lastly, on Saturday Rupert Lowe announced that his pressure group \u2018Restore Britain\u2019 is now becoming a national political party. In response, Ben Habib has merged his \u2018Advance UK\u2019, which did not get very far, with Lowe\u2019s outfit. It is a harder-edged, more explicitly Christian nationalist party with particular emphasis on \u2018remigration\u2019 and British national identity. Much of its momentum, like Lowe\u2019s popularity, is predicated on Twitter activity. Whether this will make any electoral impact is yet to be seen. It is nonetheless significant that a further right alternative to Reform has emerged, potentially complicating the British right.<\/p>\n
Blog<\/strong><\/p>\n
Is Sinn Fein Deceiving us on the Windsor Framework?<\/a> By Graham Gudgin<\/p>\n
Sinn Fein now have the First Minister\u2019s post in Northern Ireland plus three other ministries including the Department of the Economy. This article identifies an apparent attempt to disguise the relatively poor performance of Northern Ireland\u2019s exports over the latest twelve months of data and speculates that this may be to avoid any suggestion that the Windsor Framework (which they strongly support) is not working.<\/p>\n
Media<\/strong><\/p>\n
Tim Shipman in The Spectator: \u2018Authority is like virginity. Once it\u2019s gone, it\u2019s gone\u2019: Inside Keir Starmer\u2019s downfall<\/a><\/p>\n
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