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Alan Titchmarsh speaks sense about the ‘rewilding’ craze
Is rewilding, where nature is allowed to take its course, all it’s cracked up to be? Alan Titchmarsh, the nation’s…
I’m proud of my rip-off degree
Whenever the right gets itself in a froth over ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees, I keep my head down. You see, I…
Does Labour know the point of going to university?
It’s not difficult to pick holes in Gillian Keegan’s plan, publicised over the weekend, to deal with so-called ‘rip off’ university…
Australia’s Commonwealth games disgrace
In world sport, the Commonwealth games are a bit of a sideshow. In swimming and athletics, at least, they are…
Is Sunak any closer to implementing his Rwanda plan?
When the Lib Dem peer Brian Paddick complained on social media last month that the House of Lords was keeping…
Illegal Migration Bill passed by Lords
The Illegal Migration Bill is making its final crossing today to become an Act, after peers and MPs voted into…
Rishi Sunak’s degrees crack down is itself a ‘rip off’
Rishi Sunak is a big fan of a ‘crack down’. He has previously vowed to crack down on migration, anti-social behaviour, climate protests,…
Stop trying to make high culture funky
Clive Myrie, now probably the top face of the BBC, and host of their television coverage of the Proms, had…
Trump versus the party
When The Simpsons’s evil billionaire C. Montgomery Burns heads for a checkup, the doctor informs him he has virtually every disease…
ESG is a surprise boon for fossil fuel giants
ESG, or environmental, social and corporate governance, has taken the financial world by storm. It first hit the scene in…
In defence of private jets
Barbara Amiel was right that one private jet isn’t enough. One jet is always in the wrong place, or undergoing maintenance,…
Could the Hollywood strikes be the final straw for Meghan and Harry?
#UNSUSSEXFUL is trending on Twitter, referring to what Meghan and Harry have reportedly labeled a bout of “bad luck.” A…
I dislike David Cameron, but he was right on gay marriage
The other day, I found myself at a large event in a posh garden where David Cameron was present. Being…
‘Mid’: the very-online’s favorite insult
Have you heard “mid?” The very-online no longer call something “bad” or “dumb” or “crap” or “a shit-festooned barnacle attached…
Children need to fight back against political indoctrination
There’s something troubling happening in our schools. In art class, my children have been instructed to make Black Lives Matter…
It’s not for Sunak to save students from themselves
Rishi Sunak is not wrong to write, as he does in the Telegraph today, that too many young people are…
Crimea’s Kerch bridge targeted in second attack
The Kerch bridge, Russia’s only road link to Crimea, has been targeted once again in what seems to have been a…
Will the French riots spawn a new generation of jihadists?
Apart from the 96 arrests and 255 burned cars, Bastille Day passed off without a hitch in France. A bullish…
YouTube and the final state of total Kippleization
When I look back over my life, a decade or two from now, when I finally succumb to the strontium…
Giorgia Meloni and the true migration hypocrites
Cerberus, the record-breaking heatwave that has struck the Mediterranean, will be followed next week by another one called Charon – after…
Inside the chaos over Huw Edwards at the BBC
It’s been a truly surreal, disturbing and darkly comic week at the BBC. Much remains obscured, but one thing is…
The BMA shouldn’t look down on cleaners
During the lockdown, there was a cohort of workers who toiled through the night in what was described as a ‘fairly thankless…
Lithuania’s support for Ukraine remains undimmed
This week, the world’s eyes were on the Lithuanian capital Vilnius as it welcomed global leaders for Nato’s 74th summit.…
How the Unbearable Lightness of Being enthralled a generation
If during the 80s and 90s you were any kind of book lover, Milan Kundera – who died this week…
We don’t need bike vigilantes – cyclists already own the roads
Last week, Jeremy Vine shared a video of a motorist being abusive to a cyclist. Nothing new there, I hear…
