It’s not hate when you’re attacking white people? Part II
I wrote yesterday about “The New York Times” hiring a Korean-American anti-white bigot to their editorial board. Andrew Sullivan now provides the ideological context…
Tampon tax cut won’t stop votes flowing from Coalition
Treasurer Scott Morrison has bowed to the agitation of vocal feminists and the likes of GetUp! and is dropping GST…
Now May’s talking tough over Brexit, we might actually get somewhere
Ever since Theresa May declared that ‘no deal is better than a bad deal’ she has seemed to be drifting…
Susan Hill’s diary: The return of the eels
The swifts had not arrived by June, nary a one, though a Yorkshire Dales friend reported their return, and there…
Portrait of the week: ‘Project Fear’, Labour’s anti-Semitism row (continued) and Jeremy Hunt’s wife gaffe
Home When families and doctors are in agreement, medical staff will be able to remove tubes supplying food and water…
Are Britain’s railways really the envy of the world?
Ranking railways A director of the Rail Delivery Group claimed that Britain’s railways were the ‘envy of Europe’. Could it…
Victory is nigh
From ‘The fifth year of war’, 3 August 1918: There are those who think that Germany will try to regain…
Letters: What is the point of pandering to children?
Memories of drought Sir: I read your leading article with interest as I well remember the hardship caused by the…
The attempt to deselect Frank Field tells you all you need to know about Corbyn’s Labour
Early in his career — and mine — I got to know Frank Field. Then, as now, he was being…
Who wins when everyone is in crisis?
Britain’s three main political parties are in crisis. That isn’t meant to happen. If only by a process of elimination,…
Bigots of the world, unite!
If Jews would get out of Israel and also stop drinking the blood of gentile children, perhaps the rest of…
Ukip should return – our politics depends on it
‘The return of Ukip’ declared the headline on our cover story last week. The polling boffin Matthew Goodwin to whose…
No apology is ever enough for the digital mob
Promoting physical fitness, the left has developed a bracing set of competitive callisthenics. Participants vie over who can complete a…
What’s bad for slick estate agents like Foxtons is good for working Londoners
Those twice-weekly sales emails from Foxtons that the recent GDPR clean-up has failed to stop have lately been spattered with…
Making China great again
Most reporting on Jeremy Hunt’s visit to China this week went little further than his slip of the tongue in…
Macron’s summer of discontent
‘It could be argued that getting out of the office to beat up some leftists is a good way to…
The sensuous thrill of learning to swim in your sixties
Sharing a plate of oysters with a three-year-old: where could this be but France, where children are brought up not…
Who’s afraid of the WTO?
Warnings by Remainers about the consequences of a ‘no deal’ Brexit are beginning to resemble a game of oneupmanship worthy…
It’s not easy being a Corbynista Jew – just ask Jon Lansman
Being a Jew on the Corbyn left is soul- crushing. In the name of the cause, you must excuse racism…
Brexit means Boris
A few months before he died in 2007, Bill Deedes asked if I would come to see him at his…
The sorry demise of Benedictine education
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Twenty years ago, Douai, a monastic boarding school in West Berkshire, shocked parents with an announcement that it was ‘no…
The Hundred will kill cricket – in all forms
‘There can be no summer in this land without cricket’, wrote Neville Cardus, whose rhapsodic vision of the game lies…
The perfect way to spend two days in New York
In Britain I never drink cocktails, but on arrival in New York it has become a ritual that my first…
‘I am not a number’: the callous treatment of orphans
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Orphans are everywhere in literature — Jane Eyre, Heathcliff, Oliver Twist, Daniel Deronda, and onwards to the present day. They…
The magnificent Atkinsons: rigours of travel in 19th-century Russia
Russia has always attracted a certain breed of foreigner: adventurers, drawn to the country’s vastness and emptiness; chancers, seeking fortunes…
