Blame vegans for the ‘anti-vegan backlash’
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
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
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
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
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?
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?
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’
There must be carnage in the countryside. That’s the only explanation for a stampede of anxious headlines about the danger…