In politically correct Britain, being offensive to smokers is OK
SIMON RICHARDS: A new study of anti-smoking policy in the UK has warned that Government campaigns have turned smokers into a despised underclass.
View ArticleDon't laugh at us, Argentina: Why we should shun suggestions that we prop up...
SIMON RICHARDS: It's bad enough having the absurd Sean Penn mouthing idiocies about the Falklands, but now we learn that the British taxpayer has also been taken for a ride by Argentina - to the tune...
View ArticleRoger Helmer's defection to UKIP could open the floodgates
SIMON RICHARDS: The decision of Roger Helmer (pictured), the Conservative MEP for the East Midlands, to defect to UKIP, represents a massive boost for Nigel Farage's party.
View ArticleWhy the Church of England is out of tune with its flock
Sandra Woodward, left, organist Jenny Hansford, centre, and Wendy Warr stood down from their church choir after being ordered to undergo criminal record vetting at St Michael and All Angels Church in...
View ArticleDave's EU 'veto' unravels as MPs query treaty's legality
'Today is a day for commemoration and reflection: a day to remember all those who lost their lives in the conflict - the members of our armed forces, as well as the Argentinian personnel who died'
View ArticleNow the EU's charging its victims (that's us, folks) even more
SIMON RICHARDS: It's time the people of the United Kingdom were given the referendum they really want - and that they were offered the chance to end this costly racket once and for all.
View ArticleGiving Theresa May a taste of her own medicine
SIMON RICHARDS: Please support 'National "cc all your e-mails to Theresa May" Day. It's this floundering Coalition Government started to remember what it once claimed to stand for.
View ArticleLocal elections 2012: By linking UKIP to the BNP, Baroness Warsi is insulting...
SIMON RICHARDS: Theresa May once infamously described the Conservative Party as 'the nasty party'. While Baroness Warsi remains in place, that description will remain all too accurate.
View ArticleHow Dave Cameron could win over even Nadine Dorries
SIMON RICHARDS: After the party's shockingly poor performance in last week's local elections, what can Dave Cameron do to rescue his sinking Tory ship from the rocks?
View ArticleMost public sector workers have a better grasp of economics than their union...
Damp squib: Union leaders were expecting around 400,000 public sector workers to join the latest wave of strikes and protests over pension reforms, but ministers said the real figure was nearer 100,000
View ArticleWill minimum alcohol pricing start a tartan invasion of England in search of...
SIMON RICHARDS: Scotland's alcohol price hike will make life more difficult for the poor, give a boost to smuggling and very probably lead to a drunken invasion of England.
View ArticleGreek elections 2012: A vote any sane party would have longed to lose
SIMON RICHARDS: Premature crowing at the Greek election result will soon come back to haunt the EU elite, which bears responsibility for this unfolding catastrophe.
View ArticleFalklands referendum: Now give Britain a say on the EU
SIMON RICHARDS: David Cameron must now be willing to stand up for this country, just as Margaret Thatcher once stood up for the Falklands.
View ArticleEU referendum: Is David Cameron the man to deliver it?
SIMON RICHARDS: David Cameron's sudden willingness to consider a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union bears the hallmarks of the man.
View ArticleDavid Cameron says he's 'more committed than ever' to the Coalition? No...
SIMON RICHARDS: As the Coalition stumbles from u-turn to cock-up, from PR disaster to Lords 'reform' shambles, what's in it for anybody other than Cameron, Clegg and those on the Front Bench payroll?
View ArticleIt's time to follow our trade - and leave the failing EU behind
SIMON RICHARDS: The news that British exports to the big wide world beyond the EU have overtaken those to the stricken EU disaster zone is welcome indeed - and long overdue.
View ArticleAn opening ceremony with style and substance
SIMON RICHARDS: Here was the history lesson that most British children have never been taught - a pageant proclaiming the essence of so much that is great about British invention and creativity
View ArticleEurozone Germany poll: Don't praise Angela Merkel, but credit the German...
SIMON RICHARDS: Angela Merkel has won a lot of praise, not least in the UK, in recent months for standing firm against attempts to throw even more good money after bad.
View ArticleBlunder down under as Aussies take war on smokers to new lengths
New cover: These are some of the proposed models following the guidelines which state that instead of the tobacco company's brand the cigarette packs will have to be olive green and carry health warnings
View ArticleThe Tories need renewal not reshuffle
The heads which ought to roll - those of the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Business Secretary - will emerge unscathed from the rearrangement
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