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With only a year or less to go before a general election, one would have thought the Conservative Party’s historic will to power would by now have begun to reassert itself, ensuring that its members set aside their differences in order to take the fight to Labour.

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SOMETHING unpleasant is starting to happen to the independence debate. It’s changing and being shaped by the UK’s ugly, endless ‘culture wars’ – an interminably stupid phrase, up there with ‘woke’, but one which is laced with the fatal power to immediately kill off rational discussion and nuance. At the heart of all ‘culture wars’ in the West lie two issues: sex and race. Sex and gender have already fed into the independence question. The fall-out from the Salmond affair a...

A collection of essays from the Common Sense Group is a heady mix of hyperbole and risible conspiracy theory ‘Chris Loder (above) and Tom Hunt complain of politically correct police officers too busy taking the knee to chase criminals.’ Photograph: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA ‘Chris Loder (above) and Tom Hunt complain of politically correct police officers too busy taking the knee to chase criminals.’ Photograph: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA Tue 25 May 2021 11.00 EDT ...

LYNDON TERRACINI/Sydney Morning Herald Opera singer Virgilio Marino (left) with Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban after a performance of The Merry Widow Usually there’s more than enough drama at a night at the opera - what with all the dying and the singing and the histrionics on stage. But things really stepped up a notch or eleven at The Merry Widow at the Sydney Opera House last month. No, the show wasn’t especially dramatic, and no, no one actually died. Instead, it was a battle over thea...

Profit numbers, big multinational companies are saying things are slowing down and trade has created uncertainty around business. you have trumps pro stock market on one side. >> $1.3 trillion in debt is going to be added this next year. $1.3 trillion in debt because of reckless spending by republicans who control congress, reckless spending on pentagon programs that the pentagon doesnt even want, and of course this trillion dollar tax cut for the richest of americans. and the republicans answer...

Entitlement system that runs afoul of conservative thinking about government. but thats whats going on maybe in wash warm and in think tanks. people every day out there who are saying in that poll how important health care is, they have lived through the brutal efficiencies of the insurance market, about their family members not being covered for sickness, about having to pay more in premiums. what they want and what theyve come to rely on as inefficient as it is, is the federal government putti...

One uses that freedom in a way they find objectionable. that is a strange understanding of freedom. >> exactly. democrats are finally onto it. im going to stand for a moment. wont you join me? proudly speaking, do your thing. all right. proudly speaking, there are two strands of conservative thinking in america right now. theres libertarian conservativism and then author tarn conservatism. small leave me alone government here, and big intrusive government over here. and of course, nobody calls t...

That is a strange understanding of freedom. >> exactly. democrats are finally onto it. im going to stand for a moment. wont you join me? proudly speaking, do your thing. all right. proudly speaking, there are two strands of conservative thinking in america right now. theres libertarian conservativism and then author tarn conservatism. small leave me alone government here, and big intrusive government over here. and of course, nobody calls themselves an authority tarn conservative. that sounds al...

One uses that freedom in a way they find objectionable. that is a strange understanding of freedom. >> exactly. democrats are finally onto it. im going to stand for a moment. wont you join me? proudly speaking, do your thing. all right. proudly speaking, there are two strands of conservative thinking in america right now. theres libertarian conservativism and then author tarn conservatism. small, leave me alone government here, and big intrusive government over here. and of course, nobody calls ...