Lyra McKee’s murder is nothing to do with Brexit
Emily Thornberry reached a new low today. At Prime Minister’s Questions, she turned the Commons’ heartfelt offering of condolences to…
Barry Humphries and the transgender thought police
The purge continues. The latest victim is Barry Humphries. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is renaming its Barry Award after…
Britain’s liberals have fallen out of love with democracy
Every now and then there is a political moment, some event or comment, that reveals just how much society has…
Jeremy Corbyn has ditched his principles over Brexit
Remember when people would say things like, ‘Jeremy Corbyn might talk a lot of nonsense but at least he has…
What Jon Snow meant when he talked about ‘white people’
Jon Snow has had a lot of flak for his ‘white people’ comment at the tail end of his report…
Don’t call Corbynistas ‘cultural Marxists’
Suella Braverman, the Conservative MP for Fareham, said yesterday that the radical left is increasingly hostile to open debate and is…
Don’t be fooled by the twee placards at the People’s Vote march
I’ve had a lot of flak for describing Saturday’s march for a ‘People’s Vote’ as ‘disturbing’. Angry emailers inform me…
Parliament’s plot to thwart Brexit is complete
It is time for plain speaking. The stakes are too high for euphemism or obfuscation. Bluntness is required now. And…
Let’s calm down about Amber Rudd’s ‘coloured’ gaffe
If you want to see the detrimental impact political correctness has had on our society, you could do worse than…
Theresa May’s bung shows she still doesn’t understand Brexit
When will politicians learn they can’t just buy off voters? You think they would have twigged this during the EU…
Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit betrayal is complete
Let us consider the gravity of Jeremy Corbyn’s announcement that Labour will push for a second referendum. In siding with…
The shame of those siding with Shamima Begum
At last, having kept pretty shtum about it for the past few years, the virtue-signalling set has mustered up some…
In defence of Liam Neeson
Liam Neeson has been ‘cancelled’, which is internet-speak for ‘cast out’. Overnight he has gone from being the avuncular star…
The cheer on Question Time that will terrify Corbyn’s Labour
How brilliant was that cheer on Question Time last night? Isabel Oakeshott said Theresa May should just walk away from the…
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…
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