What the BBC doesn’t understand about gay voters
In my latest book, ‘The Madness of Crowds’ (copies of which can be found in all remaining [not remainder] bookstores,…
How I was ambushed by Nick Robinson
Ah, the BBC. There’s really nothing like it is there? This morning I had the pleasure of appearing on BBC…
On black privilege
Discussions of ‘privilege’ have become one of the themes of this age. In a short space of time, the obsession…
What Michael Gove really said at the German embassy
In the magazine cover piece this week I describe how institutions as well as individuals are having a hard time…
MPs and the outrage game
It was never clear what this Parliament was going to do if it was no longer prorogued. For three years…
The white lies of the gay press
Readers may be unaware that I have a new book out this week (which readers might purchase from Amazon or…
James O’Brien and the other VIP child sex abuse lies
Last week I wrote here about James O’Brien of LBC. In particular, I highlighted the platform he gave to the…
James O’Brien and the Carl Beech witch-hunt
There is an awful lot going on at present. But there is something that happened recently that I should like…
Any type of Brexit is better than no Brexit at all
It’s a strange beast, the internet. On Monday night, I was slightly reluctantly dragged onto Newsnight to discuss Brexit. Attentive…
Roger Scruton gets his job back
Roger Scruton has been reappointed as head of a government housing body after he was sacked in April following a magazine interview…
Is Boris wrong to claim Islam set the Muslim world back?
I do love the Guardian. As the years go by almost no publication continues to give me such constant amusement.…
The three unanswered questions from the Roger Scruton hit job
The New Statesman has apologised to Sir Roger Scruton. In a statement published on its website, the magazine has admitted that in April this…
Billy Connolly and the death of free speech
I hope readers will forgive me for returning to a subject I addressed here recently. It was a reflection on the…
Are Tories fanatics? The New York Times thinks so
The New York Times’s strange jihad against post-Brexit Britain continues. Some readers may have missed the paper’s insistence that having…
The confusing modern rules of telling a ‘joke’
The pace of outrage is such these days that before anybody has thought through any one outrage we are all…
Mahathir Mohamad and the hypocrisy of Cambridge University
One of the most enjoyable videos to watch on YouTube features Colonel Gadafi. I am not referring to those snuff…
The New York Times and the problem with ‘radicalisation’
One of the words that has become increasingly useless over recent years is ‘radicalisation’. As more and more terrorist attacks…
Why this year’s al-Quds Day march could be different
This weekend might provide an interesting spectacle. On Sunday the annual al-Quds Day march sets off in London from outside…
Why do some remainers think ageism is acceptable?
Doubtless there is little cross-over between the readership of The Spectator and that of the New European. Not just because…
When will Roger Scruton’s detractors admit they were wrong?
In American law there is a concept called ‘the fruit of the poison tree’ which means that if the source…
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