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Peter Hitchens may accurately be described as the ultimate contrarian and the ultimate pessimist. I can see why you would have reservations on some of his positions (I would share some of those reservations) but in his assessment of the modern-day Tory party I think he is largely accurate. I'm...

Yes, I think it would be accurate to say that there is no mainstream political outlet for traditional conservatism in the UK these days - you may find Peter Hitchens' views on the Tory party interesting if you want to know more about this, if you don't know him he is the brother of famous...

The Tory party have been exposed in recent years as an entirely useless entity, who serve nobody but themselves. Despite bearing the name 'conservative', they managed to do precisely nothing conservative during their 14 years in office, and in fact incubated the entire hot-button issue in...

The most recent polls for the Scottish election next year actually have them neck-and-neck with Labour in second place, with each sitting around 20%, but of course the SNP are a country mile ahead of everyone else. Obviously you can only put so much stock in opinion polls but they certainly seem...

Iron Maiden played more than twice as many shows between September and December 2024 than SOAD have since the COVID pandemic, so there is a lot of stored up demand for them whenever they play. They haven't played in South America specifically since 2015. But SOAD for me are not a band who are...

It's a very real possibility on the current trajectory, I think there are two main factors that will affect the outcome at the next general election: 1. Labour have to deliver tangible positive improvements for everyday people i.e. people need to feel as if things are more affordable, their...

Yes this would almost certainly be a more successful strategy, as voters lost on the right are in my opinion somewhat unlikely to return to Labour, but just as many if not more have left for the Lib Dems and the Greens and they are much more likely to be responsive to a pivot back to the left...

Current polling is certainly very favourable for Reform, for what that's worth four years out from an election, this is no doubt why the front page of BBC News today is Starmer strafing right and trying to appear tough on immigration. There are two trains of thought as to whether or not this...

Agreed, there is often this discussion about whether Ghost is 'metal' or not. The truth is it doesn't actually matter, they are a rock band that draw from pop, heavy metal, doom and many other influences, and this works extremely well for them. Tobias and his collaborators are fantastic...

Don't worry, I am confident Wrathchild will make the cut.

My personal favourite guitar solo ever, starting at 4:45:

I don't agree that it is naive to say that Russian lives are considered cheap by the Russian state, they have expended a great many of them for relatively little gain. The NYT article is a fascinating and worthwhile read, the timing is interesting as I was just this morning reading an...

I must disagree here to an extent and say that I believe these two issues are very much linked to one another. The US negotiation strategy is to my mind flawed in the sense that Trump has painted himself into a corner in the election campaign by saying that Biden's administration wrote a blank...

This is pretty much exactly what I was hoping for musically and aesthetically from this era of Ghost, can't wait to see them live later this month!

With regards to Ukraine - I do agree that it is good to have opened negotiations, all wars with this one included inevitably end in a meeting around the table, but the manner in which they have been conducted have been haphazard, replete with u-turns and ultimately unproductive. All this in...

Has he though? I was actually hopeful that he may go some way to wrap up the ongoing global conflicts but so far all he has achieved is a botched and now broken ceasefire in Israel/Gaza and for all the theatre has basically accomplished nothing with regards to Ukraine. There has not been any...

One frustration with being a diehard MAGA guy must be having to defend a policy one day and then defending the exact opposite the next day when Trump U-turns...

You know exactly what you're going to get with a British Lion gig, but I've always had a good time at them and the novelty of seeing Steve in such small venues hasn't worn off yet. Plus my local show is only 20 minutes down the road.

A lot of these will be probably be down to the venue as well, with certain seats, packages, corporate boxes etc. being available to sponsors then being released to general sale after a certain point if they hadn't sold.

So true, I would be loving it if Kerrang/Metal Hammer went that in-depth on their features.