Patrick West

Were fans wrong to boo the Ramadan fast-breaking footballers?

2 March 2026 5:49 pm

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

28 February 2026 9:00 pm

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

23 February 2026 4:20 pm

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’

13 February 2026 4:20 pm

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

8 February 2026 5:30 pm

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

3 February 2026 9:53 pm

In the fevered imagination of those obsessed with implementing ever greater ‘diversity’, there is seemingly no object or aspect of…

language

Woke language obviously doesn’t change the way we think

2 February 2026 10:54 pm

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

31 January 2026 4:44 pm

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

30 January 2026 4:32 pm

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?

14 January 2026 7:50 pm

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’?

12 January 2026 8:19 pm

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

10 January 2026 9:00 am

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

6 January 2026 4:15 pm

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

4 January 2026 5:15 pm

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

25 December 2025 11:00 am

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?

24 December 2025 4:00 pm

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

17 December 2025 1:46 am

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

16 December 2025 2:34 am

In the wake of a tragedy it is only fitting that public figures issue words of condolence. But there’s a…

What Zack Polanski gets wrong about immigration

15 December 2025 5:00 pm

One of the most common arguments made by those with a liberal approach to immigration and asylum, and one you…

Gen Z can’t cope with the real world

14 December 2025 12:13 am

Everyone recognises that teenagers today are unduly anxious. Many people attribute this to a rise in smartphone use. Some even…

Pantone’s ‘colour of the year’ isn’t racist

11 December 2025 12:23 am

For those of you dreaming of a white Christmas, here’s some advice: keep your thoughts to yourselves. Or at least…

Should this academic have been banned from campus for using the ‘n-word’?

24 November 2025 5:03 pm

Is it ever acceptable to say the ‘n-word’? As you will have immediately inferred by that sentence, it’s rare to…

We don’t need white saviours to rescue us from St George’s flags

21 November 2025 4:15 pm

Trends in society always come and go, but one that shows no signs of abating is the propensity among many…

Stop saying ‘Our BBC’

17 November 2025 6:00 pm

One of the most grating and nauseating verbal constructions of our times – ‘Our NHS’ – has with grim inevitability…

Why can’t the BBC just say sorry?

14 November 2025 11:15 pm

A famous pop star once sang that sorry seemed to be the hardest word. Almost fifty years after Elton John…