HeyJaredDesmond Swayne
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- Sep 30, 2026
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Desmond Swayne's column - Putin, patriarchs and the prospect of Holy War (opens the original)
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Last week in this column I referenced the US Vice-President, J D Vance’s speculation, that the Anti-Christ, foretold in the Bible’s final book Revelations, may already be walking the Earth amongst us. I suggested that he get his boss, President Trump, to look in the mirror. There are, of course, several other candidates. There has been much speculation that President Putin will use his thumping victory in the Russian elections, in which his party triumphed in the Duma, will prompt another mobili
Desmond Swayne MP sounds alarm over AI threat to humanity (opens the original)
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Parliament’s Joint Human Rights Committee can be a bit of a backwater. Its routine fare is examining if Government policy and legislation, to satisfy that it is consistent with our obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Committees strive to make their reports unanimous on the basis that a consensus will be more persuasive. Unfortunately, as regular readers of this column will have observed, I am not a devotee of the ECHR: The committee’s chairman did ruefully observe t
Desmond Swayne: Why taxing the rich makes us all poorer (opens the original)
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There is nothing wrong with being rich, but being poor is not an attractive option. The trouble is that we are making ourselves poorer by the penalties that we impose on the rich. In 2024, as taxes increased and rumours of further increases followed, 7,500 millionaires took their money and their business overseas to more welcoming, wealth-friendly jurisdictions. In 2025, that number more than doubled to 16,500. Who knows what the number will have increased to this year. By millionaires I mean “l
Desmond Swaye: PMâs growth claims do not add up (opens the original)
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The Prime Ministerâs appearances in Parliament last week confirmed two things: First, his belief that low economic growth is a consequence of Brexit and, second, his belief that our economic problems stem from abandonment of the way things were properly done in the 1970s until the Thatcher government that was elected in 1979, and whose policy legacy has endured until the present. With respect to the first statement, in almost the same breath the PM also boasted that UK was enjoying the fastest
Desmond Swayne's column - Britain cannot afford a race to net zero (opens the original)
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OFGEM’s increase in the minimum price for energy has prompted demands for the Government to step in and subsidise our energy bills once again. With our national debt at 100 per cent of our national income, and another substantial overshoot in government borrowing during July, the Government is in no position to oblige. Those demanding that the Government intervene appear to have forgotten the disaster that befell the Liz Truss premiership: Kwasi’s financial statement that included a raft of the
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