Westminster

‘The British people have said for years that they don’t want mass immigration. The main parties ignored them. This is venality’

Daisy Waugh eavesdrops on the chattering classes

‘If teenagers want to pick up rubbish in parks or read to the blind, nothing prevents them — apart from red tape. Most do not do community work simply because they do not want to’

‘The Home Secretary’s job is huge, but it seems to have been reduced to the role of radio critic with a visa stamp’

‘The British body politic, once so widely imitated throughout the world, now resembles an empty husk’

The think-tank Demos has switched from New Labour to ‘Progressive Conservatism’. Philip Blond has journeyed from ‘Radical Orthodoxy’ to ‘Red Toryism’. Now the two have joined forces and both Right and Left have been taken in

‘More of a fire fighter than a fire starter, Geert Wilders has been caught in the nightmare of a British establishment that can’t tell the difference’

‘The decision to ban Wilders was the desperate diktat of ministers who have lost sight of the distinction between arbitrary government and the rule of law’