Corbyn’s limited ‘respect’ for press freedom
A stirring defence of press freedom from Jeremy Corbyn at his party’s manifesto launch. Urging the booing Momentum authoritarians to…
No, Britain’s Eurovision flop can’t be blamed on Brexit
I see that the UK’s Lucie Jones has blamed her Eurovision Song Contest failure upon Brexit. Lucie actually came fifteenth,…
Jeremy Corbyn is starting to sound like a decent Labour leader
I didn’t see a ferret, reverse or otherwise, during Labour’s campaign launch or after. I heard some quite silly, grandstanding,…
Diane Abbott, the brain of Labour
I awoke this morning to hear Diane Abbott’s brains leaking out of her ears and all over the carpet during an…
Britain’s election is seriously uninspiring. Can I head to France?
I see that the polls have narrowed a bit, although I can’t see an earthly reason why they would have…
Why is Jack Monroe standing for Parliament?
I see that Jack Monroe is standing for Parliament, in the seat of Southend West. Jack is the perpetually furious,…
Tim Farron is a Christian, so of course he’s not allowed an opinion
Maybe I’m wrong about this, but I don’t remember the BBC running a documentary 100 days into Barack Obama’s first…
Expect the unexpected in Theresa May’s pointless poll
A general election is called and in a matter of hours a neutral and unbiased BBC presenter has likened our…
Our message to Assad: kill a lot more of your people, but nicely. And please spin it out
Let me take this opportunity to join with our Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary in commending President Trump’s swift and…
Even in Manchester, the BBC’s culture is purely and achingly London
An American woman started a website called ‘People I Want to Punch in the Throat’, in which she listed the…
Here’s what Sarah Sands should do with the Today programme
I wonder what Sarah Sands will do to Radio 4’s Today programme? She is the first editor in more than…
The joys of Brexit
The thing that got me about the photo-graph which prompted the Daily Mail’s harmless but now infamous headline ‘Never mind…
David Storey, 1933 – 2017: Britain’s great post-war novelist
Britain’s greatest post-war novelist is reported as having died today, at the age of 83. It seems a rather extravagant…
Why didn’t more MPs complain about BBC bias?
There’s one thing that bothers me a lot about the letter sent by ‘more than 70’ MPs to the director-general…
Why wasn’t Chuck Berry eulogised as much as David Bowie? I think I know…
Belatedly, goodnight to Chuck Berry. Almost everything that has been worthwhile in rock music for 60-odd years has derived from…
Europe’s elite rightly feel extinction breathing down their necks
Allahu Akbar! Greetings from Samsun, where Turkish protestors — their eyeballs spinning in orgasmic Islamic rage — tried to set…
I was right! Brexit has killed off Ukip
It is hugely important, if you are someone as insecure as myself, to say ‘I told you so’ whenever the…
Trump’s new ambassador is right: the UN is anti-Israel
The most important statement from the new administration. Clear, concise, simply and devastatingly expressed. Exactly what many of us have…
Camilla Long’s 3* review of Moonlight doesn’t make her a racist
I have a bone to pick with Camilla Long – a colleague of mine at the Sunday Times, where she…
Why do liberal lefties cling to these unlikely heroes such as Bercow?
The BBC again. A profile of the speaker, John Bercow, for Radio Four. His pet cat is called ‘Order’ –…
Watch: David Aaronovitch makes an utter fool of himself on Newsnight
I thought you’d like to see this, in case you haven’t already. This is David Aaronovitch being made to look…
Shock horror! Many Europeans agree with Trump on Muslim immigration
Well, now… would you just look at this. I’d read it here if I were you because I suspect it…
Protest and petition all you like. I won’t listen
I think on balance I would prefer people to demonstrate their opposition to political developments — Brexit, the forthcoming state…
Harriet Harman’s indecent proposal
We have to talk about Harriet again, I’m afraid. Usually I get into trouble when I talk about Harriet. Ah…
The NHS is a vast, gaping, fathomless void
The language of the left is a truly transformative grammar, so I suppose Noam Chomsky would heartily approve. There are…
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