Chas Newkey-Burden

Blame vegans for the ‘anti-vegan backlash’

12 February 2025 12:05 am

Is the vegan revolution over? An “anti-vegan backlash” has “made Britain fall back in love with meat,” according to the Daily…

Soap operas have lost the plot

8 February 2025 1:26 am

Soap bombshells are nothing new, but the land of light TV entertainment was rocked by some real-life drama this week:…

In defence of Slough

1 February 2025 5:00 pm

In the 1930s, Sir John Betjeman wrote a poem calling for bombs to fall on it, in 2001 David Brent…

The truth about ‘stupid’ footballers

23 January 2025 1:31 am

I’ll always remember a conversation I had with someone just after I’d interviewed the footballer Frank Lampard. ‘What was he…

Starbucks and the hell of the modern café

15 January 2025 5:00 pm

Starbucks has announced that it is reversing its rule that allowed people to hang round in cafés in the United…

What’s wrong with being a judgemental vegan?

4 January 2025 5:20 pm

Veganuary is with us again, the annual reminder that veganism is now mainstream. But us steak-dodgers still face a fair…

Who’d want to survive a nuclear war?

29 December 2024 5:00 pm

The conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East keep raging, Vladimir Putin has lowered the threshold required for Moscow to…

Calm down, most cows aren’t ‘killers’

22 September 2024 3:05 pm

There must be carnage in the countryside. That’s the only explanation for a stampede of anxious headlines about the danger…