What a pleasure to see Belgium blow it again
Ok, so I’m partisan, granted. This was a game between my favourite mainland European country and the continent’s noisome, jihadi-replete,…
England are displaying all their usual flaws under Gareth Southgate
Afterwards, Gary’s team of expert pundits crawled into their Hey Jude comfort blankets. Isn’t he great! Maybe the greatest! Well,…
Poland 1–2 Netherlands
Poland’s manager, Michael Probierz, wore a shapeless tweed-ish suit with bulging waistcoat and, when the Dutch scored their winner, had…
Why Britain isn’t following Europe rightwards
My father was fond of telling anyone who would listen that Britain would never entertain fascism because we all had…
Reform wants the Tories destroyed
There was a very excitable young man on Sky News last week, talking about the Sky/YouGov MRP poll which suggested…
Vote Rod!
It suddenly occurred to me that I need to stop dressing like a radical lesbian bag lady if I am…
Obesity isn’t an ‘illness’
About 20 years ago, Burger King stopped selling its magnificent Double Mushroom Swiss burger, an act of corporate vandalism matched…
Migration reality is biting in Ireland
Iwas trying to work out which event gave me a greater sense of euphoria and contentment – the fall of…
Why the Cass report won’t change a thing
The Liberal Democrat candidate in the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency recently released a video clip of herself sitting…
Are Stonewall and Mermaids charitable?
Iwas once asked by a colleague to sponsor him on an undertaking designed, he said, to raise money for a…
A new survey that may be of interest
My favourite opinion polls are those which elicit enormous shock in the population for stating something everybody knew for ages,…
Labour’s Gaza problem
The district of Pendle in Lancashire has a long history of dissenters, nonconformists, witches and murderers. Perhaps because it is…
British families deserve a tax break
I am delighted to report that some £800,000 of taxpayers’ money is to be spent ‘remediating’ the works of Robert…
