Suella Braverman’s downfall is nothing to celebrate
Rishi Sunak’s decision to recall David Cameron from his shepherd’s hut has been hailed as a triumph by centrist dads.…
What did we really learn from Dominic Cummings’s leaked WhatsApps?
It’ll be years before the Covid inquiry reports back on what we can learn from the pandemic, but already there…
When did we change our minds about Little Britain?
Little Britain is ‘explicitly racist and outdated’. That’s the verdict of viewers asked by Ofcom to watch a 2003 sketch…
Israel, Palestine and the troubling silence of Britain’s anti-racists
There’s no room for racism in Britain, we’re told. EDI (equality, diversion and inclusion) initiatives and anti-racism strategies are everywhere.…
Israel’s plight exposes the truth about virtue signalling ‘values’
Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, recently took a pop at immigrants who she accused of failing to ‘embrace British values’.…
The return of rational fear
‘I don’t feel safe’ is the cry of students the western world over at the prospect of hearing terrifying opinions…
How Big Brother lost touch with reality
Big Brother is back – again. The show was axed by Channel 5 in 2018 but ITV has dragged it…
What happened when the Bully XL protesters met the ‘Rejoiners’?
London was swamped with protesters this weekend but not all of them saw eye to eye. Bully XL dog owners…
Are we heading for a Sunak and Starmer podcast?
Theresa May always had a camp appeal. The clumsiness, the dancing, the incredible squareness. Mrs Thatcher never took that crown – she…
Liz Truss is wrong – the ‘global left’ isn’t to blame for her downfall
Liz Truss is back and she’s got a book to plug. ‘It will set out what we must do to counter the disastrous…
How did the ONS get its GDP figures so wrong?
The Office for National Statistics let a bombshell drop on Friday. Halfway down the first page of their grippingly-titled document…
Biddy Baxter and the perils of remembering the past
I’ve been reading the cracking, crackling new biography Biddy Baxter: The Woman Who Made Blue Peter by Richard Marson (he’s a friend,…
The endless hypocrisy of the comedy class
Personally I find TV panel shows pretty unbearable. They’re like being at a student party full of lairy smartarses you…
Talk TV’s interview with Graham Linehan was a disaster
In my time I’ve watched a lot of TV, and so I’ve seen a lot of bad TV. But the…
The Tories have invented a new philosophy – unpopulism
Steve Barclay is appalled. A source close to the health secretary has told the Mail that he is ‘appalled to…
Why aren’t we more afraid of China?
Electric cars made in China could be turned off remotely, immobilising them instantly and crippling the West. That terrifying prospect…
The BBC deserves its declining audience figures
So, the figures are in. The total weekly audience for BBC Radio 2 has dropped by a million in the…
Bring back normies!
The Cambridge Dictionary defines ‘normie’ as ‘a normal person, who behaves in the same way as most other people in society’. Merriam-Webster tells us it refers ‘to one whose tastes, lifestyle,…
Just Stop Oil have finally met their match
Have Just Stop Oil finally met their match? The splendidly named counter-organisation ‘Just Stop Pissing People Off’ have pulled off…
Will we even notice if AI replaces screenwriters?
Will we even notice if AI replaces screenwriters?
Stop trying to make high culture funky
Clive Myrie, now probably the top face of the BBC, and host of their television coverage of the Proms, had…
Why are we so obsessed with TV presenters?
The mucky allegations about a ‘household name’ BBC star – who is said to have paid thousands of pounds to…
The worst excesses of the Saintly Reading Cult
I read a lot of fiction. I always have. It’s not unusual for me to have three of four books…
Boris Johnson’s peculiar conservative conversion
In his most recent column for the Mail, Boris Johnson fires a shot at, among other things, ‘the leftie twittersphere’.…
Harry and Meghan may still have a bright podcasting future
After Spotify sacked/let go/‘mutually agreed to part ways’ with, in the words of one of its executives, those ‘f-ing grifters’…
