A vicious reaction to a very bad word
Having a nigger in the woodpile and a skeleton in the closet are closely related problems, although subtly different. In…
Being anti-smoking damages your mental health
I lit a cigarette in an open-air car park a couple of years ago as I was walking to the…
Beth Ditto: Fake Sugar
Boy is she fat, and getting fatter. I realise this is something we’re not meant to mention when talking about…
The Corbyn coalition
One of the most disappointing things about the general election for me was how few people must have read Nick…
If you’re not tired of London, you’re tired of life
London, city of the damned. City of incendiary tower blocks, jihadi mentals trying to slit your throat, yokels from Somerset…
Peter Perrett: How The West Was Won
Much though I loved it at the time, not a great deal of lasting worth came out of that fervid…
Where are the Tory hordes shrieking ‘lefty scum’?
The Conservative party lost the general election, even if they are still in power (at time of writing). It was…
Is enough enough? Then let’s start deporting
I divide my time between two constituencies, the first a rock-solid Conservative seat in the south-east of England, the other…
Snoop Dogg: Neva Left
The problem Calvin Broadus has is persuading the rest of us that he still a baaaad muthafucka. Snoop is now…
Should those poor kids have been there?
My wife will not let our 11-year-old daughter take the dog for a walk around the large field adjoining our…
This is the worst Tory campaign ever
I am trying to remember if there was ever a worse Conservative election campaign than this current dog’s breakfast —…
PWR BTTM: Pageant
How about some queercore garage punk? PWR BTTM — the name means something empowering to do with buggery — are…
Corbyn is the real heir to Blair
Alastair Campbell once famously punched the Guardian’s Michael White in the face. A commendable thing to do, undoubtedly, as Mr…
Blondie: Pollinator
Ah, Blondie. Those happy days of glorious power pop, chilly disco and rich, fruity vocals — Debbie Harry yearning away…
The cops should have said: it’s just Stephen Fry, what did you expect?
Coming to a workplace near you, perhaps — masturbation breaks. The policy was first recommended by a psychologist at Nottingham…
Diane’s grey matter and Labour’s sticky votes
I awoke the other morning to hear Diane Abbott’s brains leaking out of her ears and all over the carpet…
Tim’s a Christian, so he’s not allowed an opinion
Maybe I’m wrong about this, but I don’t remember the BBC running a documentary 100 days into Barack Obama’s first…
Ray Davies: Americana
There is some surprise that after all these years Ray Davies has turned his attention to America. He is the…
What I expect from this pointless election
A general election is called and in a matter of hours a neutral and unbiased BBC presenter has likened our…
What message do Trump’s missiles really send?
Let me take this opportunity to join with our Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary in commending President Trump’s swift and…
You can take the liberal media bubble out of London…
An American woman started a website called ‘People I Want to Punch in the Throat’, in which she listed the…
The future of Today
I wonder what Sarah Sands will do to Radio 4’s Today programme? She is the first editor in more than…
Bob Dylan: Triplicate
Having seen Bob Dylan play live a few years ago, I’m pretty sure he is not the first person I…
Brexit brings us endless little beakers of joy
The thing that got me about the photo-graph which prompted the Daily Mail’s harmless but now infamous headline ‘Never mind…
The real BBC shocker: occasionally it isn’t biased
There’s one thing that bothers me a lot about the letter sent by ‘more than 70’ MPs to the director-general…
