An ode to Mrs Brown’s Boys
‘A mother hen watching all her chicks, a sassy old lady full of tricks’. Mrs Brown’s Boys recently returned to…
Twixmas and the truth about why people liked lockdown
We don’t have a standardised name for the little clutch of strange days between Christmas and New Year. There is…
What Christianity teaches us about the transgender wars
It’s Christmas – again. For old timers like me, the familiarity of this time of year can blunt the strangeness…
Why is Elton John so pompous?
‘All my life,’ Elton John told the Twittersphere last Friday afternoon, ‘I’ve tried to use music to bring people together.…
King Charles should ignore Ngozi Fulani
If a visitor to my house suggested they had been abused and verbally attacked when they came to tea, I…
Matt Hancock showed how Conservatives can win
It’s somehow appropriate that Matt Hancock finished third in the 2022 series of I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! Third is…
How did contemporary culture become so dismal?
Watching the Christmas John Lewis ad, over and over, I’m struck by how much British life has changed – and…
Who is Boy George to look down on Matt Hancock?
Matt Hancock’s ongoing humiliation in the I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! jungle is bad news for lots…
Eco-loonyism is an upper-middle-class rite of passage
Greta Thunberg, the Shirley Temple of the apocalypse, let the cat out of the bag last week. She told the audience at her book launch that…
Does Elon Musk have the stomach for this fight?
Appropriately for Twitter, the arrival of Elon Musk has been regarded by some as the coming of the antichrist and…
What we’ll miss about Liz Truss
As Liz Truss prepares to leave Downing Street after 47 days in power, the PM’s reputation is in tatters. Seeing…
Liz Truss has a language problem
‘Grow the pie’. Somebody thought ‘grow the pie’ was The Thing, that ‘grow the pie’ was it. That this knockout…
Why can't MPs let Truss be Truss?
Our common culture – the huge audiences that tv, film and pop music used to attract – has evaporated. Politics…
The British Social Attitudes survey misunderstands social attitudes
‘I’m not sure I even know what woke means,’ tweeted barrister Chris Daw at the weekend, ‘but if it’s just…
Why ordinary people cannot enter the arts world
Recent sad events have seen everybody behaving exactly as you would expect. There’s nothing wrong about that. A certain continuity…
David Bowie was not authentic
The death of the Queen has led to a host of peculiar postponements. Perhaps the strangest was the announcement that…
Why don’t we put warnings on smartphones?
On a recent trip to Sainsbury’s, I was perplexed to find nothing where it should be. I’m used to things…
The Tory party myth isn’t real
The Conservative party leadership contest (sometimes referred to as a ‘race’, which is pushing it) is nearing its end. It’ll…
Why is JK Rowling missing from this influential artists list?
Rarified cable TV channel Sky Arts has recently revealed its list of the top 50 most influential British artists of…
Did my generation break Britain?
When I was 11, I was a pompous little git, but was I also a playground prophet? It first dawned on me…
Who is Sandi Toksvig to lecture Justin Welby about sin?
Has Justin Welby met his match in Sandi Toksvig? The entertainer has sent an open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury,…
Does Stonewall have no shame?
Watching people brazening it out can be tremendous fun. The higher the stakes, the more extreme the disparity between reality…
Liz Truss is wooden. And it works
Barring a disaster — given her record, that’s not impossible — Liz Truss will soon be the prime minister. She…
The death of bad-taste humour
The death of bad-taste humour
It’s impossible to know which crisis to take seriously
As I write this, the first day of the heatwave has just dawned. FEAR COMES THE SUN is the Daily…
