Is Britain really a nation of dog lovers?
Britain prides itself on being a nation of dog lovers – but is this true? Animal rights campaigners have targeted…
Screening Netflix’s Adolescence in schools is a mistake
Keir Starmer has welcomed Netflix’s decision to make Adolescence available to screen for free in secondary schools. The Prime Minister, who watched the…
Am I the only one who misses lockdown?
Five years ago tonight, Boris Johnson told us we were going into lockdown. In the run-up to the anniversary of…
Why does it take the snatching of a baby wombat to spark outrage about animal rights?
An American influencer called Sam Jones has been roundly denounced after she posted a video of her snatching a wild…
The ‘airport theory’ is the worst TikTok trend yet
For me, even the thought of running late for a flight is absolutely blood-curdling. The prospect of sweating it out…
Vegans shouldn’t be afraid of condemning Halal slaughter
An animal rights activist has exposed extreme cruelty at a slaughterhouse in Arley, Warwickshire. Joey Carbstrong’s secretly recorded footage shows staff slamming…
Why are we such swine to pigs?
We all know the nursery rhyme about “this little piggy”: one little piggy went to market, one little piggy stayed…
Is ‘catch and release’ fishing really ethical?
Ask anyone if they think that cruelty to animals is OK and they’ll say no – but are they being…
A crackdown on lying in politics could backfire
How do you know a politician is lying? Their lips are moving. We’ve all heard the joke. Even in these…
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…
