There is nothing like FOTBs anywhere else in Europe. This toxic mix of high stakes and rapid spins is leaving an alarming amount of people with addiction and debt.
The idea that a citizen is the ultimate owner of their own bodies is seldom popular with today’s policymakers, so how will we guard it against tomorrow’s?
Legal protection means the vote in Flintshire this week was just a gesture – but it serves as a warning of the Left’s intolerance.
This competitive virtue-signalling allows mediocre people today to look back on past heroes.
Cambridge University Press is just the latest institution to regret sacrificing fundamental principles in return for Chinese business.
Of course it is not sufficient to condemn violent racism, like that in Charlottesville, because it is unkind. But history teaches us that we must watch for signs of a loss of empathy for others.
We have allowed our enemies to infiltrate almost every power centre that matters and delegitimise our very existence.
We must never forget that the Opposition would ally us with any tyrant, terrorist or thug so long as they recite the requisite ideological verses.
From Bourne’s and Wolverine’s suffering at the hands of big government, to Peter Parker’s apprenticeship with Iron Man, cinema is full of ideas.
Put harshly, it can be the ideology of the free-rider, the citizen who neglects the demands of citizenship.
As Patten says, the Joint Declaration gives us a specific responsibility to ensure that China’s promises are upheld – which we are not meeting.
When I worked in Number Ten, the people who grasped most clearly this ideology’s threat were my Muslim co-workers.
The “modernisers” think that people with clear principles are cranks. In five years, they may find themselves queuing for food at their local Red Star state supermarket.
As China imprisons three young democracy campaigners, Britain has a moral and legal responsibility to speak out.