Gareth Roberts

Life was better in the 1990s

27 April 2024 4:00 pm

Does anyone else miss the nineties terribly? Everything seemed simpler in that pre-internet era of The Fast Show, the band…

The BBC Proms could do much better than Sam Smith

27 April 2024 12:25 am

The Proms, in its latest attempt to be accessible and inclusive, has (via the BBC) booked famously ‘non-binary’ singer Sam…

Why can’t Stonewall’s ex-boss come clean about its trans obsession?

16 April 2024 4:03 pm

The few days since the publication of the Cass report – the probe into ‘gender identity’ services for young people – have been a revelation. The report,…

The Tories deserve our contempt

9 April 2024 4:00 pm

The Telegraph reported at the weekend that the Conservative party appears to be attempting, in its selection process for parliamentary…

Anti-Israel virtue signallers should leave Eurovision alone

2 April 2024 8:06 pm

The 2024 Eurovision Song Contest – the final of which will be held in Malmö on 11 May – is…

Let’s kick ‘racial justice’ out of the Church of England

26 March 2024 5:00 pm

Holy Week is the most important part of the year for many Christians, but it will come as little surprise…

Steve Harley was no one-hit wonder

19 March 2024 5:00 pm

Celebrity deaths range from the ‘tragically young’ (Amy Winehouse) to the ‘I thought they’d gone years ago’ (Peregrine Worsthorne) and the monumental (Michael Jackson). But there’s another…

Blame Prince William, not Kate, for the Royal photo blunder

12 March 2024 5:00 pm

The Princess of Wales has owned up. In a statement on X/ Twitter, she revealed that she was the phantom…

Rishi Sunak can’t save Britain

5 March 2024 5:00 pm

The Tories have hit an all-time low: an Ipsos poll shows the party on a dismal twenty per cent, with…

The middle-class obsession with the miners’ strike

27 February 2024 5:00 pm

The miners’ strike has struck again. It’s the fortieth anniversary of the protracted dispute of 1984-85, which means that you…

The truth about John Lewis’s trans takeover

20 February 2024 4:46 pm

John Lewis is, to most people, a department store that exists to sell toasters, cushions and lamps. But it turns…

Why progressives don’t face real consequences

13 February 2024 5:00 pm

One of the most tedious and repetitive observations made in the often tedious and repetitive discourse around cancel culture is…

Why can’t Peter Tatchell leave Cliff Richard alone?

6 February 2024 4:45 pm

Leave Cliff alone! Peter Tatchell has weighed in on Cliff Richard’s refusal to declare his sexual orientation. Tatchell was spurred…

Why is Michael Gove gaslighting himself about the Tories’ achievements?

30 January 2024 10:05 pm

Michael Gove has written a staunch defence of the government’s 14 years of ‘achievements’ for Conservative Home. ‘Do we really…

Nadia Whittome is deluded about drill music

16 January 2024 4:50 pm

Nadia Whittome, no longer Britain’s youngest MP but still quite possibly its daftest, has a new bee in her bonnet.…

TV trigger warnings are out of control

9 January 2024 5:00 pm

The warnings on what we now call ‘content’ (i.e. what we used to know as films and TV shows) are…

The trouble with Boxing Day

26 December 2023 6:00 pm

You are bloated and binged. Your bloodstream is 35 per cent blood, 60 per cent a mix of Nurofen Plus,…

Bring back schmaltzy songs

19 December 2023 5:30 pm

Christmas pop song lyrics play by different rules. Children, food and family togetherness are never mentioned in pop songs from…

Why Nigel Farage failed on ‘I’m a Celebrity…’

11 December 2023 7:54 pm

The coronation of Sam Thompson, Scrappy Doo in human form, as King of the Jungle in this year’s I’m A…

Make drag innocent again!

9 December 2023 9:00 am

Nella Rose

Why Nella Rose was booted from I’m a Celeb

5 December 2023 11:00 pm

Farewell Nella Rose, second to be voted out of the jungle on the 2023 series of I’m A Celebrity…  As always,…

I’m a Celebrity has revealed the boring truth about Nigel Farage

28 November 2023 5:00 pm

When Nigel Farage entered the jungle on I’m A Celebrity… there was much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments.…

The mad cult of Doctor Who

26 November 2023 4:00 pm

When Doctor Who returned to wild acclaim in 2005, after 16 years off-air and about a generation of being regarded…

David Cameron and the triumph of fence-sitting politicians

21 November 2023 5:45 pm

David Cameron is the king of the wishy-washy compromise. Cameron has never looked happier than when he appeared in the…

Suella Braverman’s downfall is nothing to celebrate

14 November 2023 11:51 pm

Rishi Sunak’s decision to recall David Cameron from his shepherd’s hut has been hailed as a triumph by centrist dads.…