Tory MEPs were right not to denounce Viktor Orban
You would never know it from the shrill media coverage, but Tory MEPs’ refusal to back the EU’s censure of…
Serena Williams has set back the cause of women’s equality
Serena Williams has just set back the cause of women’s equality. Not by losing her cool during the final of…
Steve Bannon and the sanitisation of public life
Well done, New Yorker, you have just empowered the mob. You have boosted the moral standing and arrogance of those…
Who will speak for the working class? Everyone, apart from the working class
It’s funny how the new left’s rule against speaking on behalf of groups to which you do not belong never…
The fury of the stop Brexit mob has finally been explained
At last they’ve found a name for it. A name for the meltdown that has occurred in certain political circles…
The shameful double standards of the Corbyn crew
Imagine if there existed a photograph of Boris Johnson next to a man whose associates subsequently axed to death four…
Boris Johnson is a victim of the modern inquisition
The Muslim Council of Britain wants Theresa May to subject Boris to a ‘full disciplinary inquiry’ over his comments on…
Boris Johnson and the liberal criticism of Islam
A truly bizarre thing happened yesterday: Boris Johnson was branded an Islamophobe and a bigot for writing in defence of…
Why won’t the left speak up for Sarah Champion?
Where’s the concern for Labour MP Sarah Champion? Where are the leftists demanding that this female MP stop being harassed…
Did Gary Lineker miss the first ‘people’s vote’ on Brexit?
Gary Lineker is coming to save Britain. From what, I hear you ask? From you. And me. And the rest…
Don’t blame the Tories for a Brexit ‘no deal’
Remember when leftists and liberals were against capitalists throwing their weight around in the political sphere? ‘Just because you’re filthy…
In praise of Labour’s Brexit rebels
So this is what a principled politician looks like. They can be hard to spot these days, but last night,…
The real reason Scarlett Johansson abandoned her ‘trans role’
There is so much euphemistic reporting about Scarlett Johansson’s decision to drop out of a film in which she would…
The Remainers are in charge now
There has been a Remainer coup. Remainers now inhabit virtually all of the highest offices in the land. Overnight, adherents…
Theresa May’s Brexit plan is Remain by another name
Stop it. Stop saying we can’t be sure why people voted for Brexit. Stop saying it was just a screech…
Danny Dyer is wrong about Brexit
Oh so you all love Danny Dyer now? The turnaround in Dyer’s fortunes over the past 12 hours has been…
Bring on the Brexit songs, England fans
Fifa is worried. It is freaking out over the possibility that England fans will take a Brexit-related swipe at Belgian…
In defence of ‘no deal’
Imagine the industrial levels of brass neck it must require for EU-supporting MPs to present themselves as defenders of parliamentary…
Justin Welby’s EU delusion
Listening to the Archbishop of Canterbury praise the EU as ‘the greatest dream realised for human beings’ for more than…
Sadiq Khan’s Brexit stance isn’t ‘brave’
It’s always good to remind Sadiq Khan that Brexit is more popular in London than he is. Khan loves to…
The LRB has exposed Grenfell’s awkward political facts
Andrew O’Hagan of the London Review of Books did something very valuable this week: he re-complicated Grenfell. His 60,000-word piece…
Ireland’s referendum shows that some people only like democracy when it gives them what they want
So referendums are good now? The turnaround has been astonishing. The very people who have spent the best part of…
The snobs won against the FOBTs
It’s good to see that for all their bickering over Brexit and war of words over austerity, the Tories and…
The ‘Gammon’ insult is typical of Corbynista intolerance
Imagine referring to a whole section of society as meat. As mere flesh, bereft of sentience. It used to be…
The House of Lords is out of control — it’s time for abolition
The Lords have lost it. They’re out of control. They have taken a wrecking-ball to the government’s plans for Brexit…
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