Alan Yentob was what the BBC should be
Let us create a hypothetical situation in which we have a state funded broadcaster in perpetuity. Who would you wish…
Reform and the problem with the Overton window
In the space of about one month a further 9 per cent of the electorate has decided that the views…
Patrick O’Flynn will be greatly missed
I am hugely saddened by the death of Patrick O’Flynn. He was a man who epitomised decency, kindness, gentlemanly conduct…
Gary Lineker is an excellent presenter
Gary Lineker is off then, much to the BBC’s relief. It is moot as to whether it was his resoundingly…
Let Gary Lineker host Eurovision
So, the foreigners still hate us then. That was the first lesson to take away from the Eurovision Song Contest…
In defence of virgins
If we were really an island of strangers, as Sir Keir Starmer attested this week, then it might be OK.…
The repetitiveness made me cry with boredom: Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke’s Tall Tales reviewed
Grade: B+ You are in the wrong hands here for what is a homage to this duo’s favourite electronic music.…
The Reformation is here
These are dark and bewildering days for Britain’s community of Good People, the ones who – insulated from material discomfort…
My apology to Reform
I have read countless commentaries explaining why we shouldn’t take Reform’s victories last Thursday too seriously. They are all wrong.…
The worst thing Kneecap did? Apologise
Going to Glasto this year with your little tent? I only ask because the average age of people who attend…
The hidden violence behind the trans ruling
It is ten months since the then merely aspirant education secretary Bridget Phillipson addressed the important issue of where transgender…
Does Farage have a path to No. 10?
My contention was always that Reform UK would struggle to reach 30 per cent in the polls and, while the…
Sack the judges
The population of the United Kingdom was increased this week by the arrival of two Albanian lesbians who have been…
An astonishingly good new album from Black Country, New Road
Grade: A Is that a kind of nod to Oasis in the album title? I can’t think of a band…
British Steel and the death of dim-witted globalisation
The dewy-eyed and rather dim-witted vision of globalisation is dead, I think for good. Labour is to effectively re-nationalise British…
The lunacy of Gillian Mackay’s abortion bill
I had spent my life so far in blissful ignorance of a woman called Gillian Mackay. I mean, I knew…
Who’s in charge here?
I heard the self-important whine of a police siren so pulled back the curtains a little to see what was…
The BBC isn’t even pretending to be impartial about Trump
If, for some unfathomable reason, you missed Newsnight last night, do make sure you see, somehow, the interview between presenter…
Americans are right to hate us
In an Appalachian high school, the kids were set the task of writing about Europeans as part of their history…
Is Keir Starmer a closet Tory?
Cindy Yu (CY): Slashing winter fuel allowance, keeping the two-child benefit cap, cutting foreign aid, cutting the civil service, axing…
The shape-shifting Labour party
It is difficult to gauge who is the more discombobulated by the Labour government’s recent Damascene conversion to a political…
How to reform Reform
In early June last year I had a reasonably agreeable meal with a bunch of Reform UK activists at a…
The weakness of Donald Trump
Forgive the mordant tone, but this article was written in a desolate post-industrial nightmare girdled by diversionary roads going nowhere…
Why was there so little fanfare after David Johansen’s death?
We were twice transported back to the early 1970s this weekend, our memories snagged on the deaths of Roberta Flack…
