Trevor Phillips
My pick for BBC chairman
There are two striking things about the new book, 100 Great Black Britons, which was compiled to celebrate the achievements…
No exaggeration: Hyperbole makes words worthless
Saturday night, a guest commentator on Sky News sputtered that Donald Trump has ‘normalised white supremacy’. Once the American President…
Word processing
‘Comedy is like music,’ said Edwin Apps, one of the characters in Wednesday afternoon’s Radio 4 play, All Mouth and…
Moderate Muslims are not particularly moderate
‘What’s in the news this week?’ I asked my wife as she browsed the first newspaper we had seen for…
An inconvenient truth
‘Our findings will shock many people,’ promised Trevor Phillips at the beginning of What British Muslims Really Think (Channel 4,…
‘The truth is hard’
Roger Scruton on why we’re losing the battle for western civilisation
Liberal absolutism may be the worst kind of all
This week I would like you to share the deep pain of a liberal who has been called ‘right-wing’. This…
