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Thursday, 15 January 2026

Conservative Freedom Articles for 15 Jan 2026

 

Don’t trust your doctor . . . and the other lessons covid taught me

Liz Hodgkinson
Don’t trust your doctor . . . and the other lessons covid taught me

IT’S SIX years, almost to the day, since many of us first heard the word covid – but we certainly haven’t heard the last of it. I expect that any day now I will get an invitation to come for ‘my’ covid spring vaccination. Naturally I will ignore it as I have ignored all the […]

Djokovic v the totalitarians

Gustavo Jalife
Djokovic v the totalitarians

NOVAK Djokovic has cut ties with the Professional Tennis Players Association, a group he co-founded. Writing on social media on January 5, the 24-time Grand Slam champion said: ‘After careful consideration, I have decided to step away completely from the Professional Tennis Players Association. This decision comes after ongoing concerns regarding transparency, governance, and the […]

I have climate anxiety, so I aborted my baby

Henry Getley
I have climate anxiety, so I aborted my baby

SIX months ago, I wrote in TCW about an airline pilot who suffered from so-called eco-anxiety. He was in mental turmoil because he thought every flight he made was destroying the planet and finally he quit. The story, told on the Guardian website, was a startling example of how obsession with non-existent ‘global warming’ has […]

Taxi for Sir Keir! No U-turns please!

Danny Lockwood
Taxi for Sir Keir! No U-turns please!

Scripted in reflection of Labour dropping its plans for mandatory digital IDs. Or, as some might describe it, the 13th policy U-turn since Sir Keir Starmer became Prime Minister . . . and counting. WHEN Keir Starmer is forced face-down into abject humiliation by his erstwhile colleagues just a few months from now, he might […]

Exclusive: Farage’s Cabinet choices

John Ellwood
Exclusive: Farage’s Cabinet choices

FOLLOWING criticism that he has been slow to indicate the likely nature of a Reform Cabinet should the party attain power, Nigel Farage has given hints about his preferred choices and their roles . . . Zia Yusuf: Chancellor of the Exchequer  Nadhim Zahawi: Health Secretary  Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Home Secretary  Anjem Choudary: Foreign Secretary  […]

Letter of the day

Our Readers
Letter of the day

Dear Editor The former Greek Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, has recently released a number of videos on YouTube in which he outlines his concerns about the future of the EU. He highlights the fact that in 1990 the EU represented 25 per cent of global GDP but that is now down to 14 per cent […]

The Maccabi controversy police chief must be sacked now that he has admitted misleading MPs

Bruce Newsome
The Maccabi controversy police chief must be sacked now that he has admitted misleading MPs

THE chief constable at the centre of the Maccabi fan ban controversy has admitting misleading MPs. Craig Guildford, the head of the West Midlands Police, told the Home Affairs Committee in a letter that his force had cited a previous match that never happened after using AI to search social media. Guildford should never work […]