The plight of James O’Brien
Pity poor James O’Brien. The long-suffering remainer has always had a raw, fiery quality unusual in the British phone-in host.…
The sad truth about the BBC
When will the BBC get a grip? The corporation which, remember, is funded by licence payers, appears to be strangely…
The Trump-Zelensky clash was the most awkward TV in decades
The visits of Keir Starmer and president Zelensky to the Oval Office last week were both agonising to behold, in…
Why Brits keep getting a tongue lashing from Team Trump
So much for the Special Relationship. Since Donald Trump took office in January, Brits have been taking quite a tongue-lashing…
Why the Germans don’t do it better
Germany, not so very long ago, was the example of how to do it. Shiningly spotless and effortlessly efficient –…
Andrew Gwynne and the truth about WhatsApp
Labour MP Andrew Gwynne has been sacked from the cabinet, and suspended from the party, for sending ‘vile’ WhatsApp messages.…
The voice coach row reveals how Keir Starmer will come unstuck
The news that the Prime Minister Keir Starmer – the adenoidal android – has employed a voice coach is simply…
The triumph of Otto Schenk
A long life well spent doing what we love is more than most of us can hope to get anywhere…
The strangeness and sanity of Donald Trump
The Village People joined Donald Trump on stage at the conclusion of his pre-inauguration rally last night. ‘You won’t recognise…
Why we’re horrified by Bonnie Blue and Andrew Tate
OnlyFans content creator Bonnie Blue claims to have broken a world record by sleeping with over a thousand men in…
The ‘grooming gangs’ delusion is finally being shattered
The re-eruption of the rape gangs scandal has shone a dazzlingly bright light on the language that makes us flinch…
The grooming gang scandal needs to change our entire worldview
The recent re-eruption of the grooming/child rape gang scandal has been disorienting, seeming to blow up from nowhere. It has…
The joy of Kemi and Farage’s Christmas feud
A feud can be very tedious and tiring if you’re one of the combatants. But let’s be honest: for onlookers,…
Pulp have always been in the wrong place at the wrong time
Pulp, the legendary band fronted by Jarvis Cocker, have revealed that they’ve signed a new recording deal with equally legendary…
Let’s hope Donald Trump doesn’t mess it up
There’s been a ‘vibe shift’. After the resounding victory at the recent US election, at long last things are changing,…
What’s the truth about the New Jersey drone sightings?
What is going on with the drones buzzing over New Jersey in the United States? Reportedly ‘the size of cars’,…
The Trafalgar Square Christmas tree is a truly sorry sight
It’s bad manners to complain about a gift of any kind, and very bad manners to complain about a Christmas…
World war twee: the hideous triviality of our times
I remember the moment I first understood that we, the British, had a national character. It was in the mid-1970s…
I’m A Celebrity has been enjoyably dull
The current series of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! has been a big contrast to the previous…
The truth about Labour’s ‘class war’
Keir Starmer’s critics might have you believe that the Labour government is fighting a class war. They point to Education…
Let’s banish Band Aid
There’s no need to be afraid, but 40 years since the advent of ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’ by Band…
I must stop hating politicians
Hate crimes, hate speech, hate groups… It is quite possible that we have less of these things today than ever…
Farewell Gary Lineker, you won’t be missed
Gary Lineker is to leave Match of the Day at the end of the current football season, and to exit the BBC…
The Marsh family and the sad spectacle of Trump-bashing Brits
There is something slightly uncanny about the musical Marsh family of Faversham in Kent, who recently gathered millions of YouTube…
The cult of Paddington has gone too far
‘Kindness is like marmalade – a little goes a long way,’ Paddington Bear tweeted recently. But it isn’t only imaginary…
