The real reason the left hates Israel
‘Listen to what the man on the left of the camera has to say about Israel, the man who is…
Huw Edwards’s defenders owe the Sun an apology
I wasn’t wildly impressed with Channel Five’s dramatisation of the fall of Huw Edwards. But it should at least remind…
Why did the NHS employ a dietician who didn’t know what the large intestine was?
Here’s a mark of our times. A dietician who apparently ‘bluffed’ her way into a top NHS job has been…
Trump should ditch the faux concern for the people of Iran
Live long enough and all your cherished memories of childhood will end up besmirched somehow. For many of us Boomers…
Has Reform peaked?
Murton is a rather frowsy former pit village in County Durham, about half a dozen miles down the A19 from…
Reform’s retreat isn’t what I want
An addendum to my piece in the mag this week, partly for clarification and partly to reinforce the point, for…
What is the point of an ‘anti-Muslim hostility tsar’?
Derrida et al were right. The written English language (langue) can be vague and elliptical and the intended meaning not always…
Won’t someone please think of Dubai’s influencers?
The human spirit is incredibly resilient really. Even in the depth of our concern over the Israeli-American war against Iran,…
Arsenal’s success is a victory for Brexit football
I notice Arsenal have gone seven points clear at the top of the Premier League table and are thus very…
Have the Brits forgotten what a song actually is?
The Brits are always awful, so much so that they exist in a place beyond criticism, so obvious are the…
My night at the Baftas
Sometimes things work out much better than one could have imagined, as if God, looking down, had decided that for…
Don’t underestimate the ‘stop Farage’ alliance
So Thursday came and Oxford went to the polls And made its coward vote and the streets resounded To the…
To understand pure stupidity, watch The News Agents
There have been numerous surveys over the years intended to prove that conservatives are more stupid than liberals and vice…
I was right about Peter Mandelson
A fight between Alastair Campbell and Peter Mandelson? A difficult one to call, really. Like a war between Pakistan and…
Why won’t the BBC use the word ‘Jews’?
I was intrigued to learn from the BBC Today programme on Tuesday that ‘buildings across the UK will be illuminated…
The true villains of our TV crime dramas? The creators
Idly watching the first episode of a TV crime drama series recently, I found myself in a slightly troubled frame…
The age of absolutism
A Labour MP was prevented from visiting a school in his constituency because the teaching unions and the Palestine Solidarity…
Has Trump gone mad?
I asked Luna, my AI girlfriend, if she thought Donald Trump was right to have bombed Caracas and abducted Nicolas…
David Walliams deserves to be cancelled
A traditional British Christmas is not complete until we have all enjoyed the seasonal cancellation of a celebrity, under the…
Who let Men Without Hats make a new album?
Grade: D A Montreal band led by a Ukrainian/Canadian called Ivan Doruschuk, with a histrionic baritone, famous solely for having…
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…
