Forget Piddington, here are the real micronations
While last week’s majority vote by the inhabitants of Piddington in Oxfordshire to seek independence from Britain was a stunt…
That Mitchell and Webb Look isn’t racist
For an ideology which proudly pronounces its ethos of respect, compassion and inclusion, hyperliberalism can be decidedly judgmental and supercilious…
Why the Civil Service are revolting – again
Many people who work in the Civil Service are revolting. Quite literally in the verbal meaning of the word, and,…
My issue with Trafalgar Square’s ‘Lady in Blue’
Ever since the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square became the location in 1999 for a succession of temporary artworks, many…
The paradox of Ealing Broadway’s ‘Calm Space’
When it emerged a fortnight ago that Transport for London (TfL) had unveiled a ‘Calm Space’ at one of its…
What The Uprising gets wrong about the Peasants’ Revolt
Hollywood has a nasty habit of distorting history and telling falsehoods about the past in order to pander to the…
The lesson Cambridge should – but won’t – learn from Jason Arday
With the Jason Arday episode set to become one of the most important and symbolic stories of the year, and…
Why the ‘Be Kind’ brigade are so horrible
The Green Party came to prominence earlier this year by forever promising ‘hope not hate’. Indeed, that dreamy yearning played…
Jason Arday wasn’t the victim of a ‘racist witch hunt’
For decades, voices on the liberal and progressive left have invariably rolled out the terror-inducing accusation of ‘racism’ in order…
Sociology is about much more than fools like Jason Arday
One of the unfortunate consequences of the Jason Arday debacle is that it has thrown the entire discipline of sociology…
Do liberal Londoners know how much they are detested?
For decades now Trevor Phillips has been one of the most astute and unusually self-aware members of the liberal establishment,…
The tragedy of Live at the Apollo
One of the lamentable side effects of the ultra-progressive wave that swept the western world in the mid-2010s was that…
Is Elon Musk wrong about Britain and civil war?
Do you think that Britain is heading towards civil war? If you spend too much time in certain nooks on…
Andy Burnham is much more nostalgic than Nigel Farage
The strange thing about our new Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s professed wish to return to the 1970s, to a prelapsarian…
The surprising truth about men and multitasking
One of the most popular and common beliefs of our times is that women are better than men at performing…
Tone policing Nigel Farage will only backfire
There will always be a certain class of people who sigh that Nigel Farage only reaps what he sows. Ever…
Ken Bates, Chelsea, and the bad old days of football
The timing of the death this weekend of Ken Bates, the former owner of Chelsea and Leeds United, will have…
In praise of Anthony Gordon
In an age in which we continue to hear so much about our ‘anxious generation’, it’s heartening to read about…
When did travelling on buses become so intolerable?
You frequently hear the charge today that the social contract in Britain has broken down. And there is much evidence…
Why gays turned against Pride
The annual Pride parades celebrated across the globe are not the events they used to be. First held in New…
What the sorry state of Hammersmith Bridge says about Britain
One could be forgiven for thinking that the extensive coverage given to the fiasco surrounding Hammersmith Bridge is typical of…
TG Jones and WH Smith deserve to fail
‘Too big to go down’ is an old football maxim and a cautionary tale. It refers to the complacent attitude…
The tyranny of Pride is coming to an end
June is a month most people anticipate for various reasons, it heralding the Isle of Wight Festival, the Summer Solstice…
Putting wildlife on British banknotes ignores the elephant in the room
The issue of what images to put on new banknotes, and specifically of whom, has become one of the great…
The humiliating truth about the way we think
We overrate our capacity for rational deliberation, says Turi Munthe, when weather, soil, climate and geography are what really determine of our opinions and beliefs
