Muhammad Ali opened British eyes to America’s race problems
A question for those of you of a certain age. Who was the first articulate black person you ever saw…
My take on the England football team
Apologies for the lack of blogs – I’ve been on jury duty for two weeks. Hang the bastard, regardless of…
My summer party is always very exclusive – and this year is no exception
The swallows have long returned and the summer party season is almost upon us – so I must get organising. Without wishing…
Little Englanders, it’s time to give Sadiq Khan a break
Hell, I wait so long to be right about something and then two bits of stuff come along at once.…
I know who I’m supporting in the Corbyn-Hodge leadership contest
Christ help us – Corbyn or Hodge! I think, given the choice, I’m pretty firmly with Jezza. One deranged bien-pensant…
Labour’s halfwits have revealed their anti-Semitic side
My guess is that the people who voted for Naz Shah at the last election think she did not go…
Has the BBC reduced its coverage of the migrant crisis?
Do you remember the migrants? All those people coming here across land and sea, from North Africa and Arabia and…
Why pretend that female footballers are as good as male ones?
Yay – Izzy Christiansen! Yay – Beth Mead! I daresay you were as thrilled as I was to see that…
The South Downs way is beyond miserable
I see that a small furore has been occasioned by the South Downs National Park. It has urged walkers to…
Martyrdom: a new comic strip for Turkish kids
Thrilling news arrives from Turkey, where it is being reported that a government body has issued comic books to the…
Like London, Brussels has allowed itself to become a hotbed of Islamic extremism
It was only a matter of time before Brussels got the suicide-bomb allahu akbar treatment, as the Belgians knew full well.…
Even the Germans are starting to despair of their country’s migrant policy
A rather impressive performance by Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in Germany’s regional elections. Second in Saxony-Anhalt and double digit percentages in Baden-Württemberg and…
Perhaps public schools do have their benefits, after all?
Guardian journalist in self-awareness shock. A very good piece by Hadley Freeman about the utter ubiquity of public school-educated monkeys…
The BBC has forgotten that journalism is a trade
This is written from a small and dank room in the state of Arslikhan, as Private Eye calls it. My…
The BBC isn’t much help for navigating through the Tory EU wars
Trying to navigate your way through the internecine wars in the Conservative Party over the referendum? Please allow the BBC’s…
A selfish politician like Boris is better than one who believes he is guided by destiny
Poor Boris. Subjected to both the BBC PM programme’s satire and an evisceration by Nick Cohen right here. I just…
Did we really have to hear all about Crispin Blunt’s sex life?
A year or so back my friend and colleague Hugo Rifkind wrote a very good piece in which he argued…
Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti declares chess to be a source of evil. How about jihadis?
My favourite Islamic scholar, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, has come out with yet another corker. He is the…
Farewell Shami Chakrabarti, leading figure of the New Establishment
So farewell, Shami Chakrabarti. The woman is stepping down as boss of Liberty, for whom – whatever your political views…
I’m not one for conspiracy theories, but something fishy is going on in Europe
Having taken the piss out of Guardian columnists for their laughably painful paroxysms over the appalling attacks upon women at…
Nine days on, why is the left still in denial about the Cologne attacks?
Still in denial, then. The liberal left, having first tried to ignore the massed sex attacks in Cologne (and in…
The Corbynistas are becoming more Machiavellian by the day
Who held the power in the supposedly inappropriate relationship between Labour MP Simon Danczuk and gorgeous, pouting etc seventeen-year-old Sophena…
A German politician points out the obvious about refugees and the terror threat
Happy New Year. Sorry about my absence. I’ve been away for a couple of weeks and then, when I returned,…
Donald Trump represents the views of millions of Americans. Does the BBC not realise this?
If you saw the BBC Ten O’Clock News last night you will have witnessed Nick Bryant’s dispassionate, even-handed treatment of…
Can ‘democratic’ bombs defeat ‘fascism’ in Syria? I have my doubts…
Au contraire. Au contraire. I thought Hilary Benn’s speech was well delivered, but workmanlike in construction and told us nothing…
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