Patrick West

The tyranny of Pride is coming to an end

8 June 2026 3:00 pm

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

6 June 2026 3:00 pm

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

6 June 2026 9:00 am

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

What’s the real reason Nigel Farage has never been on Desert Island Discs?

1 June 2026 4:25 pm

Long gone is the time, towards the end of the last decade, when we all laughed off ‘safe spaces’ as…

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Put Orwell back on the syllabus!

31 May 2026 3:31 am

It’s been an unrelenting dynamic of hyperliberalism that when it comes to the teaching of history and literature, it’s imperative…

You don’t need AI to tell you if an asylum seeker is lying

30 May 2026 12:05 am

How can you tell when an asylum seeker professing to be child is lying? Often, it’s because he has crow’s…

Q Manivannan is perfect for the modern Green party

26 May 2026 6:16 pm

A whole raft of new terminology has emerged since the Great Awokening ten years ago. Much of it suggests that…

The irony of the woke war on GCSE French

11 May 2026 9:52 pm

Not content to degrade and mangle the English language in their mission to make it conform to their progressive ideology,…

Reform can thank Starmer for its success

8 May 2026 3:25 pm

The foremost question Labour party members should be asking themselves this morning, following yesterday’s predicted disastrous showing in the local,…

Why so many drivers jump red lights

5 May 2026 8:32 pm

The signs that civic society in this country is disintegrating grow more apparent by the week. In a year which…

Mental health is an inauthentic crisis

2 May 2026 10:21 pm

When it reaches the stage when everyone in the entire country is diagnosed as having mental health problems, will we…

What the St George’s flag really stands for

24 April 2026 4:03 pm

Every year it’s the same old story, and it’s always inaugurated by the usual collection of technocratic mediocrities and simple-minded…

The tale of the quiet Englishman who helped make Immanuel Kant

19 April 2026 4:00 pm

Immanuel Kant, who was born on 22 April 1722, is perhaps best known for two things: writing The Critique of Pure…

The Green Party is mad, bad and dangerous

18 April 2026 4:30 pm

Much has been written in recent days about the outlandish proposals and deplorable opinions of the Green Party candidates standing…

Christopher Eccleston is right about young white men

15 April 2026 4:53 pm

It’s not often that actors talk sense or deviate from liberal-left orthodoxies when speaking on politics, so when they do…

Why even Ferrari drivers are stealing petrol

13 April 2026 5:11 pm

It’s a long-standing and cherished belief of left-liberals that most theft is caused by poverty and desperation, and that a…

Why are our universities dumbing down?

8 April 2026 4:28 pm

It’s strange and ironic that higher education establishments in Britain, institutions which ostensibly exist to broaden minds and deepen thought,…

Why the Met police went soft on crime

4 April 2026 2:46 am

After months, years and even decades of dismay about the state of law and order in this country, a leader…

Labour cares more about itself than Britain

20 March 2026 5:00 pm

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

18 March 2026 2:55 am

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

16 March 2026 4:45 pm

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

13 March 2026 1:24 am

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?

11 March 2026 5:00 pm

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?

9 March 2026 4:30 pm

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

6 March 2026 4:33 pm

It was only a matter of time before an ultra-progressive, hard-left party with a fondness for voguish identity politics, enthusiasm…