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It's not just the exploitation of a tragedy.
JD Vance's picture of Britain - where migrants have led to a crime surge - is the opposite of the truth.
Fraser Nelson
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Fraser Nelson
@FraserNelson
Columnist for The Times. Trial subscription: £1 for 4 months
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- Starmer’s digital ID plan is in meltdown. The public are against it, and companies like Palantir see rumours of their involvement as a reputational risk. Unusually for a ceo to disavow the project on ethical and democratic grounds. Quite an interview.
- UK to have worst economic decline in Europe next year -and by some margin...
- Jeremy Corbyn has just increased Labour's share of the vote more than any other leader in any other election since Attlee in 1945
- London murders have fallen to 89 in the last 12 months. The lowest rate on record.
- Sweden has just ended restrictions on all over-70s - saying the cost of loneliness and isolation is greater than the risk from the virus. My @Telegraph column on what Britain can learn:
- Due to popular demand, we've taken Alex Massie's critique of Boris Johnson out of the paywall:
- Funny hearing Brexit blamed by companies who say they can’t find staff. What they mean is can’t find staff at the old, low salary levels. Adjusting to our new economic circumstances means paying people more. Painful, perhaps, but long overdue.
- Colin Mackay is a superb journalist, perhaps the sharpest broadcast interviewer in Scotland. Am not entirely sure that Sunak was prepared for this…
- Replying to @GrahamMedley @doug_prime and @juji_gatamiThanks, this helps me understand. So you exclusively model bad outcomes that require restrictions and omit just-as-likely outcomes that would not require restrictions?
- NEW: 93 murders in London (pop: ~9m) in 12 months to October. The city's murder rate is now lowest for decades; perhaps centuries. comment.press/7892
- This is an appalling, illiberal development - a solution without a problem. Tories trying to gerrymanderTo vote in elections in England this May, you will need to show photo ID. No ID? You can apply for free voter ID now. Find out what is accepted and apply for free voter ID if you need to ⬇️️️ electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/voter/v…
- If someone regards a trans woman as "a man who claims to be a woman" should they be allowed to say so? As editor of The Spectator, I published Gareth Roberts making this point. IPSO, the press regulator, has censured The Spectator for doing so. Its ruling is outrageous and
