I admit it: I was wrong about the Premier League
Yes, of course, one sometimes yearns for the old days. The friend who, appearing in court on a charge of…
When will we admit that the special relationship does not exist?
It was to King Charles’s great credit that he refused to fall for the Trump power handshake thing and instead…
Why the Greens have a problem with alcohol
I think the best and most succinct description of the Green party was Tim Stanley’s ‘Stalin with a nose ring’.…
Voters get the politicians they deserve – so get ready for PM Polanski
It is a truism that in a democracy the voters get the government they deserve – and so we should…
Arsenal fans are getting what they deserve
I was sorry to see Arsenal lose the ‘Game of the Season’ to Manchester City and thought them a little…
What we can learn from the Southport killer
It was a matter of some disappointment to me that Kanye West was barred entry to this country as a…
Do you suffer from ‘excited delirium syndrome’?
Hadiza Atunse, a 25-year-old PA, smashed her Toyota Auris into a Mini Cooper, spun out of control and flipped into…
Don’t blame Kanye for his abject idiocy
Grade: C– Kanye? No, I can’t, quite. I will always quietly overlook the idiotic political sensibilities of the conformist millennial…
Only one man could bridge this footballing divide
It reminded me a little of that wonderful Christmas Day truce in the first world war, when the two sides…
Where’s my free BMW?
My friend Will Clouston, the leader of the Social Democratic Party, dropped round with his wife for a bite to…
The BBC’s real crime is its relentless political bias
I am not convinced that the BBC did very much wrong regarding Scott Mills. No matter how boring the BBC’s…
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…
