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Darren Grimes

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Darren Grimes is a political commentator and is content creator at Reasoned UK.

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Darren Grimes: The frustration, bafflement and despair that the lockdown is forcing on my family and friends in the North-East

It is much more than its main urban areas. So the restrictions feel really unfair to some – such as those I know in County Durham.

Columnists, Highlights | By Darren Grimes | 7 October 2020 at 6:40 am | 24 comments

Darren Grimes: Not even Charles Moore can save the BBC

Why should we believe that any new Chairman can deliver change, when the new Director-General has seen his pledges fail in his first month in the job?

Columnists, Highlights | By Darren Grimes | 23 September 2020 at 6:20 am | 178 comments

Darren Grimes: We must reject demands that the EU would make of no other independent state

No self-respecting democracy could accept the sort of concessions demanded by the victor after a war had been won.

Columnists, Highlights | By Darren Grimes | 9 September 2020 at 6:50 am | 154 comments

Darren Grimes: Out of office but in power. How the Left keeps losing elections, yet gets its way nonetheless.

Each time rioting is ignored by the police, we move one stop closer to allowing a tyrannical Twitter-dwelling minority to become very powerful indeed.

Columnists, Highlights | By Darren Grimes | 26 August 2020 at 6:30 am | 100 comments

Darren Grimes: Johnson must face down the teaching unions with Thatcher-like resolve

The Prime Minister will be rejected by the aspirational working class that voted for him in large numbers if he cannot win this battle.

Columnists, Highlights | By Darren Grimes | 12 August 2020 at 6:30 am | 76 comments

Darren Grimes: “Hey folks, eat out and spend more – no, not you, fatty. And here’s a new tax for you, consumer-friendly online retailer.”

We should have a laser-like focus on reducing the tax burden, instead of relying on nannying to get us off of our bottoms.

Columnists, Highlights | By Darren Grimes | 29 July 2020 at 6:30 am | 44 comments

Darren Grimes: Today, it’s Conservatives who are the real rebels – against woke conformity and the cancel culture

The more of us that come out of the closet – the political one – the more tolerant and reflective our culture will become.

Columnists, Highlights | By Darren Grimes | 15 July 2020 at 6:30 am | 123 comments

Darren Grimes: Why I’m backing this new campaign to defund the BBC

It’s single mothers like mine that are hardest hit by non-payment of the licence fee. If you ask me, that’s too high a price to pCome Dancing on free-to-view telly.

Columnists, Highlights | By Darren Grimes | 1 July 2020 at 6:30 am | 119 comments

Darren Grimes: Since we must use coal, why import it all – when we could instead create jobs by mining it in the North-East?

In 2018, just to transport 4.7million tonnes of Russian coal was equivalent to a whopping 130 jumbo jets whizzing, non-stop, around the globe for a year.

Columnists, Highlights | By Darren Grimes | 17 June 2020 at 6:30 am | 150 comments

Darren Grimes: A Pride Day? There’s a good case for one. But a whole Pride Month? That’s just virtue signalling.

At the end of the day, being gay in 2020 is ok. We are no longer prime victims of oppression, and we should reject four weeks of self-indulgence and narcissism.

Columnists, Highlights | By Darren Grimes | 3 June 2020 at 7:00 am | 48 comments

Darren Grimes: In defence of Cummings

It has become increasingly clear that all this is less about what he did and entirely about who he is.

Comment, Highlights | By Darren Grimes | 25 May 2020 at 6:40 am | 276 comments

Darren Grimes: I won in court. There are no charges against me. The Electoral Commission is discredited. Now there must be a reckoning.

This is a regulator out of control – and we need a full review of the law, too, which is beyond the understanding of the institution created to oversee it.

Comment, Highlights | By Darren Grimes | 10 May 2020 at 6:30 am | 59 comments

Darren Grimes: These devalued degrees are infantalising a generation of young people

There are now so many of them that the degree itself has less impact on employability – this ensuring that they become less economically valuable.

Comment, Highlights | By Darren Grimes | 10 January 2020 at 6:20 am | 52 comments

Darren Grimes: Help me to challenge the Electoral Commission’s ruling

I put my head above the parapet and campaigned for Brexit – the decision to penalise me appears vindictive, and threatens to harm our participatory democracy.

Comment | By Darren Grimes | 25 July 2018 at 11:33 am | 285 comments

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