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…
Yup. The left’s problem is that it never ‘calls out’ bigotry
What has the left been doing wrong? This is a question which has taxed many minds. But at last we…
‘Men against girls’ was a fitting description for Northampton Town’s 5-0 loss
Welcome to 2017! And eight days in, it’s time for one of those apologies again. You know, the cringing acts…
My Ritz Crackers woe
I ate some Ritz Crackers the other day, for the first time in more than 40 years, I would guess.…
We’re seeing the sad death of the once noble Labour party
Sleaford wasn’t terribly good for Labour, was it? Nor indeed Richmond Park. Sleaford was never very Labour friendly – although,…
Join my campaign to demand a second US election
Racists, homophobes and bigots decided the result of the US presidential election. Racists, homophobes and bigots are not democratic, and…
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