Of course shoplifters are scumbags
A familiar cliché, which in history has been disproved time and again, is that a police force cannot operate without…
Am I ‘vulnerable’?
I needed to speak, briefly, to my car insurer regarding breakdown cover. After undergoing the usual roster of DNA testing,…
The lies of the land
You can gauge the fragility of an ideology by the blind fury with which it reacts to questioning. So it…
Israel has gone too far
If any other country in the Middle East had behaved as monstrously as Israel has in recent weeks, the jets…
Raise the age of suffrage to 25
If I had been given the vote at the age of 16, I would have put my cross beside the…
Irritatingly, Wet Leg’s new album is pretty good
Grade: B+ There’s quite a lot to dislike about Wet Leg, even aside from their stupid name. The entirety of…
Is Bella Sankey sorry for calling the police on me?
The grotesque halfwit who tried to have me prosecuted for ‘incitement’ was on Newsnight on Wednesday night, spouting the usual…
Down with the middle class
I suppose this magazine is probably not the best forum to launch a movement to sweep away the British middle…
The unspoken truth about 7/7
Did you take part in any of the mysterious commemorations last weekend? The newspapers were full of it – something…
The intense and consuming stupidity of George Monbiot
Chauve souris de la lune There is an intense and consuming stupidity within almost everything George Monbiot writes, the lumpen…
And now let’s bomb Glastonbury
A small yield nuclear weapon, such as the American W89, dropped on Glastonbury in late June would immediately remove from…
The Guardian: let babies vote
I think I have just located Peak Guardian. It can be found on page 57 of the newspaper’s latest Saturday…
Come friendly bombs and fall on Iran
It is heartening to see the lefties out marching in defence of mullahs and their enlightened rule of Iran. The…
My modest proposal
It’s surely time we dropped our cynicism and got behind the government’s National Abortion Drive, another noble attempt to kickstart…
Does the BBC doubt Iran wanted a nuke?
I don’t monitor this stuff all the time. It would be soul destroying. All that happens is that I tune…
My plan for Prevent
In the autumn of 1940, British cities were being bombed every night by large aeroplanes whose provenance was apparently of…
How good was Brian Wilson?
I recently did an online quiz to name the 100 biggest selling pop and rock acts in the USA. The…
England’s defeat to Senegal might be their worst ever performance
“England, the lions of Autumn are but lambs come the Spring”. That quote is often attributed to Michel Platini, but…
Kemi’s one chance at recovery? Trussonomics
You may have noticed that for some while the BBC News people have stopped referring to Reform UK as ‘far…
Get your Pride month Kevin the Carrot, while stocks last
Please consider this a sort of public service announcement. I mention it because sadly, you may have been unaware of…
A lovely album: Saint Leonard’s The Golden Hour reviewed
Grade: A+ The kids with their synths and hip producers, dragging the 1980s back: I wish they would stop. It…
How Covid broke Britain
It was at about this time, five years ago, that the workers at my (then) local farm shop began wearing…
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…
