Even Nigel Farage will struggle to make this election exciting
Unlike Brenda from Bristol, I usually love elections – but not this one. Theresa May’s self-destruction in 2017 was one…
Shakespeare wasn’t a woman
The American novelist Jodi Picoult has revealed that she thinks that Shakespeare’s plays were written by a woman, telling the…
The sad truth about ‘saint’ Nicola Sturgeon
Nicola Sturgeon has finally come clean: ‘I was part of the problem,’ Scotland’s former first minister has admitted, referring to…
The Tories have no right talking about ‘common sense’
Esther McVey is minister without portfolio in the current cabinet, but has been dubbed the ‘minister for common sense’. In…
The attacks on Britain’s history have backfired
UK university courses on race and colonialism are facing the axe due to cuts. ‘There’s not very much about race…
Life was better in the 1990s
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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?
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
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
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
You are bloated and binged. Your bloodstream is 35 per cent blood, 60 per cent a mix of Nurofen Plus,…
Bring back schmaltzy songs
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…’
The coronation of Sam Thompson, Scrappy Doo in human form, as King of the Jungle in this year’s I’m A…
