The trouble with 'Angiemania'
The most annoying thing about Angela Rayner’s branding of the Tories as ‘scum’ was not that it offended some Tories,…
Starmer's shameful silence on the Rosie Duffield trans row
One of the most shocking images from the Corbyn years of the Labour party was Luciana Berger flanked by police…
Alex Scott, Digby Jones and the snobbery of low expectations
Labour peer Lord Digby Jones has found himself in the eye of a Twitterstorm. His error? He criticised BBC sports…
Why do those who abuse Priti Patel get a free pass?
Remember when Labour MP Clive Lewis got into trouble for saying, ‘On your knees, bitch’? It was at a fringe…
Cancelling To Kill a Mockingbird is a step too far
It often feels like we’re living through the revenge of the talentless. Cancel culture is essentially a war of no-marks…
Oxfam’s strange obsession with ‘whiteness’
Remember when it was considered wrong for workplaces to harangue their employees about their racial origins? Ah, those were the…
Oxford, 'sensitivity readers' and the trouble with safe spaces
The list of things that students must apparently be protected from grows longer every day. Controversial speakers, rude comedians, sombreros…
Are England fans allowed to be proud of the St George’s Cross?
It’s starting to feel like the only flag you can’t fly in England is the England flag. Wave the Pride…
Stonewall’s dystopian attacks on gendered language
Today brings yet more proof that Liz Truss is dead right to want to withdraw government departments from Stonewall’s Diversity…
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…
