Lewis Brackpool
Lewis Blackpool is an independent reporter. He tweets at @lewis_brackpool
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
