Daily Mail
Stephen Hawking shamefully boycotts Israel
I thought readers might be interested in this piece by me in today’s Mail. It is on the appalling decision by Stephen Hawking to boycott a conference in Israel just… Continue reading
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St Andrew’s students beat ‘milking’ with ‘champagning’
The Daily Mail got very excited last month over ‘a new student craze’ called milking, where students post videos of themselves ‘pouring milk over their heads in public places’: The… Continue reading
30 CommentsAre Brits more likely to riot?
One of the reasons I wanted an inquiry into the riots was to try to avoid headlines like today’s. Information will out — what matters is how it’s presented. The… Continue reading
23 CommentsYou couldn’t make it up: Crook freed from jail to look after his five kids
Sometimes I wonder if the judiciary and the human rights culture are just trying to make Richard Littlejohn’s columns look understated. Today’s story in the Daily Mail about how a… Continue reading
47 CommentsBurning bridges
A noteworthy point from Tim Montgomerie in ConservativeHome’s latest general election briefing*: "The Daily Mail continues to blast Labour for neglecting marriage, as in an editorial today. It accuses Labour… Continue reading
22 CommentsSarah Churchwell Gets Under the Skin of Republican Philistines
I now get magazines sent to my home rather than my office, which means that I actually read them from time to time. The latest issue of The Liberal, for… Continue reading
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