Angus Campbell’s Kumbaya Corps
So, let me get this straight… in the ADF now, wearing a rainbow badge is officially sanctioned, but any form…
The Army serves the Crown, not itself
Last week the Chief of Army Lieutenant General Angus Campbell promulgated a minute proscribing the use of “death symbols” within…
Woke is murder
It’s interesting to watch the slow transformation of the former frontman of the Smiths Morrissey from the darling of the…
A home truth for the Tories: fix the housing crisis or lose power for ever
Much rot is spoken about how the young have it so bad. In fact, this generation is healthier, richer and…
Racism and the RSC: why I was a sitting duck for the arts mob
Our ducks are back. Two wild mallard have spent the last five springs on the brook which gurgles past us…
Portrait of the Week: Allied air strikes on Syria and the Windrush scandal
Home Amber Rudd, the Home Secretary, apologised in Parliament for the treatment of immigrants from the Commonwealth from before 1971,…
The Church of England must be robust with its snowflake congregants
Sit the snowflakes down Sir: I was surprised to read Theo Hobson’s article about ‘snowflake’ Christians in the C of…
What the Windrush scandal reveals about Theresa May
Everyone speaks about the Windrush. The boat was actually called the Empire Windrush. The full name reveals what the story…
Corbyn’s profoundly anti-western worldview is fully exposed at last
The Tories’ great worry after the last election was that they had effectively vaccinated the electorate against Jeremy Corbyn. They…
A joke about Welsh vowels is a hate crime, say the tuppenny panjandrums
It took four days to actually see the pine marten in the flesh. We caught it on a trail cam…
Why I have succumbed to sourdough mania
This ought to be the perfect time for a rant about how we’ve reached peak sourdough. It’s been all the…
An odd new feeling has crept up on me – sympathy for the police
Spring has come to my local park in its usual way. First the magnolias, then the cherry blossom, then the…
I’m an optimist for trade despite the idiocies of politicians
I’m proud to be a member of the 661-year-old Company of Merchant Adventurers of the City of York, having qualified…
The wrong Brexit: what happened to ‘Global Britain’?
A few months ago, Britain’s most senior ambassadors gathered in the Foreign Office to compare notes on Brexit. There was…
James Comey is trying to take down Trump. He’ll fail
Americans forget their corruption in order to savour their innocence. When Republicans and Democrats are struggling to find ways forward…
What will the next war look like?
Imagine Peace. These were the words that appeared on an otherwise blank page in the New York Times on New…
Why do British charities want to shut down private schools in Africa?
Why would anyone who claims to care about the world’s poorest children try to shut down their schools? It’s strange…
Low-cost private schools are transforming lives in the third world
Private schools in the United Kingdom are affordable only to those on the highest incomes. But surprisingly to many, this…
Not one of my Harvard students thinks Brexit is a good idea
My wife laughs that my love of gadgets is a remnant of my Communist upbringing, when western toys were objects…
University Challenge
One programme that still shines out as a beacon of intellectual rigour among the sea of dross on television is…
Texas: the myriad contradictions of the Lone Star state
The subtitle of Lawrence Wright’s splendid God Save Texas (‘A Journey into the Future of America’) would be alarming if…
Is there no end to books on the ‘end of France’?
Here is a detail that says a lot. In the French translation of this latest book by the Israeli historian…
Did the Grenfell Tower fire put paid to the social housing ideal?
As a schoolboy, I used to go round to my best mate Mike’s home. It was a good place: a…
For the man who has everything, only a space rocket will do
Today’s VHNWI wants a PRSHLS. That’s Very High Net-Worth Individual and Partially Reuseable Super Heavy Lift System. Or, in the…
Guess who’s coming to dinner with Angela Huth?
Anglea Huth, the broadcaster and author of some 18 books, has now written her memoirs, Not the Whole Story. And…
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