The West has become ungovernable
My favorite opinion poll of recent times was the one which showed that Donald Trump is disliked by more than…
Why did Robin Ince have to leave The Infinite Monkey Cage?
It was with mild pleasure that I read of the decision of Robin Ince to end his association with the…
The year wokery went into decline
We will remember 2025 as the year that a madness which had gripped us for a decade finally succumbed to…
Hands off my prostate
Too much information. That’s what you’re about to get. I wouldn’t read another line if I were you. I will…
The obvious truth about BBC bias
For quite a few members of the House of Commons culture, media and sport committee, the answer to the claims…
It’s not Starmer’s fault that everyone loathes him
Finding someone who ‘likes’ Sir Keir Starmer is a terribly enervating quest, and I have given up on it without…
How to fix the BBC
Assuming the BBC is still in existence by the time you read this, the scale of the task facing the…
You can’t trust the BBC
You may remember that in February the BBC found itself in a spot of bother regarding a film about the…
Is Reform racist?
Sarah Pochin’s gonna take a lot of coachin’. You can’t just turn up on the telly and say you’re sick…
George Abaraonye deserves his downfall
Contrary to what I had expected, the Oxford Union president-elect, George Abaraonye, lost his vote of no confidence by a…
The ECHR will never be reformed
It is more than nine years since I was suspended by the Labour party for – I think – a…
Robert Jenrick is right
I’ve just got back from doing a spot of shopping in my local town – and do you know what…
Let’s just ignore the Church of England
How important do you think it is to know what the Church of England thought about that ‘Unite the Kingdom’…
No, Big Thief’s Double Infinity is not the greatest folk album ever
Grade: B- ‘I feel within myself a constant dialogue between my masculinity, my femininity and the part of me that…
Who marches against Tommy Robinson?
Isn’t it time we banned such marches as the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally, given the thuggery and lawlessness which ensued?…
The misplaced sympathy for Angela Rayner
One evening last week I came home, flipped on the TV and saw on the news what must surely be…
Leave the countryside alone
I used to volunteer at a wildlife sanctuary, counting sheep and goats on an agreeable patch of chalk downland in…
Angela Rayner and the spite of Labour
As a snapshot of our country, you’ll be pressed to find anything quite so resonant as the one which depicts…
When national flags are a warning sign
I don’t quite see the point of flying Union flags in Tower Hamlets, or complaining about it when the council…
Of course shoplifters are scumbags
A familiar cliché, which in history has been disproved time and again, is that a police force cannot operate without…
Am I ‘vulnerable’?
I needed to speak, briefly, to my car insurer regarding breakdown cover. After undergoing the usual roster of DNA testing,…
The lies of the land
You can gauge the fragility of an ideology by the blind fury with which it reacts to questioning. So it…
Israel has gone too far
If any other country in the Middle East had behaved as monstrously as Israel has in recent weeks, the jets…
Raise the age of suffrage to 25
If I had been given the vote at the age of 16, I would have put my cross beside the…
