Labour cares more about itself than Britain
While many people have been dissecting the power struggles and growing fissures within the Labour party, it might instead be…
Smartphones are making us stupid
For some years now Private Eye’s ‘Dumb Britain’ section has been regaling its readers with examples of contestants giving ridiculous and…
Stop crying wolf about World War Three
You sometimes wonder if people who put together newspapers these days have ever heard the story about the boy who…
‘Blasphemous’ drawings and the myth of tolerance
It’s often assumed and frequently stated that the biggest threat to British society these days comes from cultures which are…
Why do Britain’s councils hate patriotism so much?
The war waged by those in authority on those who make overt displays of patriotism shows no sign of relenting.…
Who cares if Britain’s Eurovision entry has German lyrics?
What with the prospect of further resets with the European Union, and with British culture seemingly in a constant battle…
The real reason Greens are gaining ground
It was only a matter of time before an ultra-progressive, hard-left party with a fondness for voguish identity politics, enthusiasm…
Were fans wrong to boo the Ramadan fast-breaking footballers?
So much of what is commonly understood to mean multiculturalism has in truth been class warfare by other means. A…
‘Family voting’ allegations cannot be ignored
If allegations of ‘family voting’ taking place at Thursday’s Gorton and Denton by-election prove substantiated, the incidents will not only…
How Britain learnt to turn a blind eye to shariah
The more excitable and less well-educated elements of the liberal left are forever apt to observe that politics today resemble…
What Louis Theroux’s Netflix show won’t tell you about the ‘Manosphere’
There once was a time when you couldn’t move for some progressive voice complaining in superior tones about the latest…
Why Gen Z is troubled by Jesus
Many teenagers today find Christianity off-putting because Jesus seems too fond of ‘mansplaining’. He appears to have a ‘God complex’,…
The British countryside isn’t racist
In the fevered imagination of those obsessed with implementing ever greater ‘diversity’, there is seemingly no object or aspect of…
Woke language obviously doesn’t change the way we think
It’s been a cherished belief of progressives over the decades that you change the way we think, and in turn…
Stop shoehorning diversity into BBC dramas
At last, the BBC has been forced to admit what even the dogs on the street know to be true:…
Labour is the nasty party now
Labour has long prided itself on being the party of compassion. Indeed, ever since Thatcherism, personified in the minds of…
Will the new Mock the Week focus on being funny?
Heaven knows we could all do with a laugh right now, what with 2026 having begun in such an inauspicious…
Why are teachers so obsessed with the ‘far right’?
Much has been written in recent years, and even recent days, about the threat posed to the mental wellbeing of…
Cadavers will always captivate. Museums need to chill out
Is it right to put human remains on show? It’s a question that museum curators and the public have been…
Woke isn’t dead – and here’s the proof
In one respect, the scaremongers are right: Racism is alive and well in this country, being imbedded in our institutions…
Reform and the real populist threat
We’re scarcely into the new year and already luminaries on the liberal left have resumed one of their favourite pastimes:…
Iron Maiden at 50: how heavy metal became mainstream
The death of the Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne this July, and the huge reaction it provoked worldwide, represented something…
Do Eskimos really have a hundred different words for snow?
Do the Eskimos have many more words for ‘snow’ than the rest of us, and does this question matter? As…
The problem with Labour’s ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ definition
Some might say that trying to define ‘Islamophobia’ is a foolish enterprise, given that words these days are so wantonly…
The Bondi Beach attack shows diversity is not our strength
In the wake of a tragedy it is only fitting that public figures issue words of condolence. But there’s a…
