‘You are not alone’: A message to the Jewish people
I’m not Jewish myself, but most of my best friends are Jews. The reason I mention this is that, all my adult life,…
Do I have a ‘work addiction’?
What follows may suggest that I require an ‘intervention’. Readers might even interpret this column as a cry for help.…
At least Britain isn’t that corrupt
Long-time readers may recall that I take a special interest in the art of corruption. And this week America has…
Politicians can’t win on illegal migration
It is eight years now since The Spectator sent me to Lampedusa to see the boats coming in. That was…
How to buy influence in Britain
Like all hacks, I sometimes wonder whether I should just screw my self-esteem, do a Jonathan Freedland and start writing…
The delicious schadenfreude of Burning Man
If any readers are having those September, back-to-work blues perhaps I might offer them a sure-fire palliative? Just go online…
George Osborne’s midlife crisis
There should be a term in anthropology for what happens to a certain type of Tory male in middle age.…
What’s the point in being a 1 percent presidential candidate?
Who is Perry Johnson? It is a question not many American voters can answer. He has a grand total of…
Why everyone thinks they could be President
Who is Perry Johnson? It is a question not many American voters can answer. He has a grand total of…
Prince Charming is cancelled
The only strikes I really enjoy are actors’ strikes. Teachers’ strikes leave me cold. Train strikes get me into a…
Hell is the Ulez hotline
‘Only boring people get bored’ is what we were all told as children. What we were not warned about was…
Why should Vikings be diverse?
I don’t always watch ‘Strongest Viking’ competitions on cable. But the other day I was channel-hopping and became mesmerised by…
Was I right about Iraq?
Back in March there was a glut of pieces about the 2003 Iraq war. The 20th anniversary seemed to much…
Canada’s assisted dying horror story
My favourite Martin Amis novel was his 1991 book Time’s Arrow. It is a pyrotechnically brilliant work in which all…
Daniel Korski and the lives of others
The news has been coming so thick and fast of late that every week there are dozens of stories we…
French racism is not the problem
Last week we learned that a woman in a park in Skegness was dragged into the bushes and raped by…
Joe Biden is not OK
One of the most reliable standards in international comedy has long been the outstanding ineloquence of American politicians. In this…
The diversity trap
If anyone reading this ever bought shares in the diversity racket, then I would suggest you start dumping them now.…
It’s been a bad week for former political leaders
The week of the three downfalls has been an interesting one. Boris Johnson resigning from parliament, Donald Trump going to…
The inversion of history
It is 18 years since the last Colditz drama on British television, which apparently means we need a new one.…
The strange obsession with Phillip Schofield
As I have noted before, there is always another circle. I thought that last week’s scandal (originally entitled ‘Suellagate’ or…
There is such thing as a stupid question
Some people seem to make a career of being ashamed (or at least claiming to be ashamed) of their country.…
How to fake it till you make it
Not to sound too much like Kamala Harris during one of her peregrinations on the nature of time, but the…
Daniel Penny and the problem with have-a-go heroes
I have always liked the phrase ‘have-a-go hero’. It sums up a certain type of person who can emerge from…
The cost of mass migration
Way back in the long distant 1990s, net migration into this country used to be in the tens of thousands…
