No tap water has left all of Tunbridge Wells disgusted
I’ve lived in Tunbridge Wells for 20 years, and have never met anyone disgusted. Until this week. Yup, we’re all…
England football fans don’t know how good they’ve got it
England won its World Cup qualifier game again last night, this time against Serbia. And, once more, the Wembley reaction…
Sports are finally giving up on virtue-signalling
Thank heavens for that. English football clubs will no longer have a minute’s silence for tragedies like floods, earthquakes and…
Move over shy Tories – it’s all about shy Reformers now
It was the most blatant and shameless piece of virtue signalling I’d ever seen. After a long day of training…
Why is Rachel Reeves encouraging high earners to retire early?
If I were Rachel Reeves, my absolute priority would be to incentivise high earners to work hard for as long…
Why September 1 is the worst day of the year
How are you feeling about the first day of Autumn? If, like me, you get a distant sense of foreboding,…
Why you should confront the next shoplifter you see
Physical courage isn’t my most obvious quality. I hope, if push came to shove, I’d stand up for myself (I…
How middle-class shoplifting swept Britain
Middle-class shoplifting is pushing up high street prices, according to Dame Diana Johnson, the policing and crime minister. Can she…
Can Wimbledon learn to love Novak Djokovic?
It’s only when they get older and start losing that we start loving them. That’s how it was with John…
The state needs to chill out about the hot weather
Since the year dot, it’s got rather warm in southern England at some stage most summers. Not scorching. In recent…
Can Starmer be trusted not to give away the Falkland Islands?
No sooner had the Chagos deal been struck than attention turned to the Falklands. Would Keir Starmer support the Islands…
Cricket has become irrelevant
Apparently, the cricket season has begun. More than that, it’s in full swing and is already six weeks old. But…
What has Ofcom got against the Carry On films?
Why must we all be such killjoys? Why so prudish? Why so terrified of history? In the dock this week,…
I think I’m in love with Ronnie O’Sullivan
I’m in love with snooker legend Ronnie O’Sullivan – purely in the sporting sense, of course. I want him to…
The IMF is right: we should be retiring at 70
The IMF is onto something – a sentence I’ve never uttered before. But that august institution says today’s 70-year-olds not…
Javier Milei is deluded about the Falklands
Javier Milei might be a Thatcherite economically, but when it comes to the Falklands he’s about as Thatcherite as a…
Why can’t Nigel Farage praise men for a change?
Nigel Farage has really done it this time. He may have sailed close to the wind before, but defending the…
The Falkland Islands have become surprisingly diverse
What springs to mind when you think of the Falklands? You might imagine the wild, windswept landscape, sparsely populated by…
Islands story
Life on the Falklands, 40 years on
