Patrick West

Trial by victimhood has taken over Britain’s courts

13 June 2025 4:00 pm

We live in a country in which petty grievances and perceived slights abound, and one in which resentments and gripes…

Worrying about migration doesn’t make you an extremist

8 June 2025 7:14 pm

This country still has a problem with a radical ideology. News that the government’s anti-radicalisation programme, Prevent, now classifies concerns about mass…

The real reason why academics write in gobbledygook

30 May 2025 11:54 pm

Why can’t academics write properly? Why can’t they express themselves in language that normal people can understand? These are questions…

Katharine Birbalsingh is right about our worship of victimhood

24 May 2025 4:47 am

One of the main accusations levelled at the trans movement is that the tidal wave of youngsters claiming to be…

How George Wendt embodied American television

22 May 2025 5:00 pm

The American sitcom Cheers depicted a Boston bar where everybody knew your name, and its most loyal customer, Norm Peterson,…

The trouble with BBC Verify

16 May 2025 4:01 pm

Can the BBC ever be objective and unbiased? It’s a question many of us ask ourselves, sometimes in hope, often…

What Starmer’s immigration critics don’t get

14 May 2025 1:18 am

Keir Starmer has finally realised that he needs to tackle rising immigration. The Prime Minister said yesterday that Britain risks…

The police have lost it

12 May 2025 4:57 am

When hyper-liberal identity politics went into overdrive in that year of madness, 2020, one of the greatest casualties in this…

It shouldn’t be illegal to burn a Quran

10 May 2025 12:09 am

We now live in a country where, once more, it appears to be a crime to commit blasphemy. This is…

BBC Bitesize’s communism blindspot

21 April 2025 4:00 pm

A great exhortation of our times is the need to ‘be kind’. It manifests itself among those who cry ‘refugees…

Trans activists won’t be silenced by the Supreme Court ruling

18 April 2025 6:48 pm

Many people have been celebrating after the Supreme Court’s declaration that the definition of a woman will indeed be based…

‘Stop Brexit Man’s court victory is a win for free speech

15 April 2025 1:23 am

From today, ‘Stop Brexit Man’ is free. This character, whose real name is Steve Bray, the long-standing bane of broadcasters,…

Have we got worse at dealing with stress?

12 April 2025 4:00 pm

Barely a month seems to pass without a public exhortation to ‘raise awareness’ about the plight of some marginal section…

Why is Keir Starmer wishing us Eid Mubarak?

1 April 2025 4:27 am

In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s Eid. But of course you noticed. You’d have to be living in a cave…

Why are police targeting parents who complained in a school WhatsApp group?

30 March 2025 1:56 am

The heavy-handed conduct of the police these days often provokes accusations of ‘Orwellian’ behaviour – and with good reason. There…

London is not as bad as people say

22 March 2025 4:47 pm

Complaints that ‘London isn’t what it used to be’ or ‘London is a hell-hole these days’ are hardly original or…

The audacity of ‘decolonising’ Shakespeare

17 March 2025 11:52 pm

It seems to have become an unspoken requirement of recent that anyone in charge of promoting or putting on the…

Why Henry Kelly was popular

2 March 2025 5:00 pm

For centuries the Irish in this country had been subject to mockery, derision and discrimination – even though there is…

Keir Starmer is right to cut foreign aid

26 February 2025 11:35 pm

It was inevitable that the announced cut to Britain’s international aid budget would cause a stir. The curtailment earlier this…

Sam Fender is right about white privilege

24 February 2025 11:30 pm

Teaching working-class young men that they benefit from ‘white privilege’ is having a detrimental effect on a generation of boys,…

Why progressive activists feel superior

21 February 2025 1:09 am

Left-wing activists are less likely to understand or listen to people with conservative beliefs, compared to the rest of the…

Why is Tom Hanks mocking Trump supporters?

20 February 2025 12:17 am

We have long become accustomed to actors holding and sharing their progressive political views. So when David Tennant opened the…

The battle against DEI has never been more vital

17 February 2025 6:37 pm

It was only a matter of time before the rollback of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policies in the workplace…

In defence of The Apprentice’s Jana Denzel

15 February 2025 1:19 am

The front page of the Sun today pronounced that a star on the television show The Apprentice has quit for using ‘racist…

What Gen Z gets wrong about ‘racist’ Britain

12 February 2025 6:05 pm

Nearly half of Generation Z believes that Britain is a racist country, and a similar proportion say that they aren’t…