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Sunday, 18 January 2026

TCW week in review: Nigel Farage is such a bitter disappointment

 

 TCW week in review: Nigel Farage is such a bitter disappointment

Kathy Gyngell
My TCW week in review: Nigel Farage is such a bitter disappointment

WHILE the MSM’s soap-opera production house couldn’t get enough of the ongoing Tory-to-Reform defection drama, we at TCW were getting on with reporting the stuff that really matters. Undistracted by the antics of pipsqueak politicians like Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch that mainstream journalists cannot apparently get enough of. It’s a sort of addiction. And as with any addict, their preoccupation […]

Enemies without, but more within . . .

Danny Lockwood
Enemies without, but more within . . .

SO FAREWELL then, Chief Constable Craig Guildford, slithering off meekly into shameful early retirement. Enjoy counting your 30 pieces of pension silver. I doubt that Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans will care much after Guildford banned them from attending a Europa Cup match against Aston Villa. Actually, they should have a whip-round for the bloke, […]

Some thoughts on ‘life after death’

Peter Mullen
Some thoughts on ‘life after death’

LIFE after death? The subject is ostensibly meaningless. If ‘death’ means, as we usually take it to mean, the end of life, then life ‘after’ death is a contradiction. For other amusing contradictions, see also ‘When time began’ and ‘God is outside space’. The prevailing view in the secular Western world is that the human […]

Things can only get more irritating

Ivor Williams
Things can only get more irritating

WHY are so many aspects of our daily life designed to be deliberately annoying? Energy, for example. Way back in the simpler past you paid your local gas and electricity suppliers. No choice. No worry. Now the way we acquire our energy supplies is down to us. We’re told we can choose where they come […]

The simple pleasure of a mechanical watch

Nicholas Engert
The simple pleasure of a mechanical watch

IT HAS been at least five years since I have worn a watch. I have a collection of timepieces, none of which is exceptional but all of which had stopped working and remained unloved in a drawer. It was not a problem to manage without one as, like everyone else, I have a mobile phone. […]

Letters to the Editor

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Letters to the Editor

PLEASE send your letters (as short as you like) to info@conservativewoman.co.uk and mark them ‘Letter to the Editor’. We need your name and a county address, e.g. Yorkshire or London. Letters may be shortened. There is no guarantee of publication. *** Letter of the week: Reform’s recycled rubbish Dear Editor I have had it with Reform. At this rate, if they win the […]