Batley Grammar and the triumph of the mob
Here’s the depressing truth about the Batley Grammar controversy: the mob has won. Angry protesters who gathered at the school…
In praise of the Batley binmen
If you need someone to support your right to freedom of speech, forget the teaching unions. Don’t look to the…
What’s the real reason so many people hate Israel?
Did you know that for the past three weeks Turkey has been engaged in a military assault on Iraqi Kurdistan?…
No wonder viewers are boycotting the Oscars
The Oscars are in trouble. People are switching off in their millions. A paltry 9.85m Americans tuned in to the…
The two elites squeezing the life out of football
So, all of a sudden the chattering classes care about football fans? Yesterday, the kind of people who usually wring…
The twisted logic of Shamima Begum’s defenders
Shamima Begum is back in the news. Firstly because she’s had a makeover. She can be seen on the front…
The elitism lurking at the heart of the green movement
There’s a movement in the UK that is trying to block the building of essential new council housing. It is…
No, Spike Lee: Donald Trump is not like Hitler
I wish people would stop comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. Not because I’m worried about Trump’s feelings — he’s…
Eddie Izzard and the denigration of women
I’m done with being white. It’s boring. From now on I choose to identify as black and I insist that…
The pathetic censorship of ‘Fairytale of New York’
There’s a surefire way to tell Christmas has arrived. Forget the Oxford Street lights. Forget the sudden appearance of stacks…
Prince Harry needs to stop lecturing us
Prince Harry has seen the light. His awokening is complete. Earlier this week, in a video chat hosted by GQ…
The collapse of the Cambridge Analytica conspiracy theory
So there you have it. Cambridge Analytica was ‘not involved’ in the 2016 EU referendum. The digital marketing firm that…
The Oscars’ woke McCarthyism is a step too far
Normally the best response to political correctness at the Oscars is to laugh at it. Whether it’s Lady Gaga singing…
Spare us Ben & Jerry’s lecture on the Channel migrant crisis
Multi-millionaire virtue-signallers Ben and Jerry are at it again. Once again the ice-cream capitalists are doing their woke schtick in…
Can we finally put the Russia-Brexit conspiracy to bed?
So there you go. There is still no hard evidence that Russia interfered in the EU referendum. What’s more, it…
What’s up with Banksy’s mask propaganda?
Is Banksy a Tory propagandist now? His latest juvenile stunt suggests he might be. On the day the government announced…
Keir Starmer’s bizarre Black Lives Matter re-education
So now we know what happens if you criticise Black Lives Matter. You’ll be packed off for re-education. You will…
The madness of censoring shows like Little Britain
Cancel culture is out of control. Over the past 24 hours Little Britain, The League of Gentlemen and Chris Lilley’s brilliant…
The double standards of the London protestors
So now we know. All the things said about Dominic Cummings – that he shattered the lockdown, that he thinks…
What the fury about Cummings’s road trip is really about
Is Durhamgate over now? It must be. Surely. With a simmering revolt in Hong Kong, riots in Minneapolis, heightened border…
What’s more disturbing: Cummings’ behaviour – or the mob pursuing him?
The Dominic Cummings story is deeply disturbing. No, not the fact that Cummings and his wife, Mary Wakefield, took what…
Liberate London from lockdown now
I know good news is not allowed in coronavirus Britain. Instead we’re all meant to cower before the death stats,…
Why Boris bashers like Jacinda Ardern
I’m starting to wonder if the people who unfavourably compare Britain’s Covid experience with New Zealand’s are being wilfully stupid.…
The ridiculousness of the bookshelf police
‘People want to know why Michael Gove owns “racist” and “anti-Semitic” books’, reports the Independent’s website. By ‘people’ it actually…
In praise of old white men
Remember when it was fashionable to hate old white men? Of course you do. It was only a few weeks…
