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…
Notre Dame’s loss is too much to bear
Civilisation only ever hangs by a thread. Today one of those threads seems to have frayed, perhaps snapped. It is…
Roger Scruton’s sacking exposes the Tories’ cowardice
So the New Statesman decided to interview Sir Roger Scruton. Perhaps there are those who think that Scruton should not…
Donald Trump is right about Israel and the Golan Heights
Earlier this week President Trump made one of the most reasonable decisions of his Presidency. His administration formally recognised Israeli…
Who should we blame for the Christchurch atrocity?
A frequent complaint heard from Muslim communities in recent years has been irritation and anger over any suggestion that Muslims –…
The false equivalence between ‘Islamophobia’ and anti-Semitism
I have been travelling in the Middle East for the last few weeks and slightly regret returning to the maelstrom…
The UK’s Hezbollah ban is a victory for common sense
Britain is going to proscribe the terrorist group Hezbollah in its entirety. This is a victory, not least for common…
Britain is not to blame for Shamima Begum’s radicalisation
Of all the points made on the case of Shamima Begum, the most relevant has been utterly absent. That is,…
The true cost of fake hate crimes
Some years ago I was introduced to one notion of how to tackle dishonest and insincere accusations of racism. It…
In the 30 years since the fatwa, there’s been little discussion about The Satanic Verses itself
Today is the 30th anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini’s issue of a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for writing the novel The…
The truth about Turning Point
Earlier this week I made the usual mistake of looking at Twitter and saw that ‘Turning Point’ was trending. This…
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