The politically correct tactics of the mob outside parliament
People are talking about the ugly protests outside parliament as if they are a new and strange phenomenon in British politics.…
Why is the army trying to recruit snowflakes?
Imagine sending a snowflake to fight Isis. Imagine packing off the kind of people who shake and weep when they…
Putin’s motives may be cynical but he’s still right about a second referendum
It is coming to something when Vladimir Putin has a better understanding of democracy than many in Britain’s own political…
Leo Varadkar is being played like a fiddle by Brussels
A few decades ago, Irish people would march through the streets of London to holler at the British government: ‘Hands…
Why Theresa May must go
Theresa May has got to go. She has got to go because she has failed British democracy, failed the British…
Kevin Hart is the offence archaeologists’ latest victim
Another day, another scalp. Another public figure put in the stocks for ‘speechcrimes’. Another individual forced out of a job…
In praise of the Gilets jaunes
At last, a people’s revolt against the tyranny of environmentalism. Paris is burning. Not since 1968 has there been such heat…
It is time we civilised the Sentinelese people
John Allen Chau behaved immorally and recklessly when he approached North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal last week.…
Airbnb’s ban on Israeli settlements is shameful
So alongside being the only country that pop stars refuse to play in, and the only country whose academics are…
Stopping Brexit means stopping democracy
I always shudder when I hear people say, ‘Let’s stop Brexit’. They say it so casually, so cavalierly. It rolls…
It’s the same intolerance that drives the mobs against Asia Bibi and Roger Scruton
Asia Bibi and Sir Roger Scruton don’t have much in common. She is a lowly farm labourer from a rural part…
The Arron Banks delusion
What do people mean when they say Arron Banks ‘bought Brexit’? That phrase is everywhere. It’s a New Statesman headline:…
What the rise of the Poppy refusenik tells us about Britain
Is there anyone smugger than the poppy refusenik? I don’t mean people who don’t wear poppies. That’s absolutely fine. Knock…
The real reason snobs are calling for a Ryanair boycott
If you had to draw up a list of people and things it is de rigueur to loathe, it would…
Michael Moore couldn’t be more wrong about Brexit
How unfortunate that the person who once wrote a book called Stupid White Men now sounds an awful lot like a…
The problem with hate crime
It always amazes me that people think it is normal and acceptable to have hate-crime legislation. To have laws which allow…
The staggering hypocrisy of Hillary Clinton
Today Hillary Clinton slammed the Tories for failing to join the recent pile-on against Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban. In…
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…
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