Keir Starmer and the illusion of ‘seriousness’
The first few days of a totally new government are disorientating. Nobody knows quite how to react. The electoral dust…
The Tories: a requiem
And now the end is near. Barring a polling error of galactic proportions, we are hours away from the final…
Meet the Labour ministers who are going to ruin the country
We’re going to be lumbered with them for at least five years, so I think it’s time to have a…
The boring truth about Keir Starmer
How would you define ‘working people’? You’d think that ‘people who work’ would be a pretty safe bet. But Keir…
We’ll never find the heir to Blair
The ghost of 1997 haunts the 2024 election. The defining image of this year’s contest, barring any major upsets over…
The staggering dullness of Sunak and Starmer
We’re now about halfway through the election campaign. I don’t know how we’re going to keep our excitement from bubbling…
The trouble with ‘centrist’ Tories
‘Elections are won from the centre ground,’ the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said. Perhaps he should have a word with…
Even Nigel Farage will struggle to make this election exciting
Unlike Brenda from Bristol, I usually love elections – but not this one. Theresa May’s self-destruction in 2017 was one…
Shakespeare wasn’t a woman
The American novelist Jodi Picoult has revealed that she thinks that Shakespeare’s plays were written by a woman, telling the…
The sad truth about ‘saint’ Nicola Sturgeon
Nicola Sturgeon has finally come clean: ‘I was part of the problem,’ Scotland’s former first minister has admitted, referring to…
The Tories have no right talking about ‘common sense’
Esther McVey is minister without portfolio in the current cabinet, but has been dubbed the ‘minister for common sense’. In…
The attacks on Britain’s history have backfired
UK university courses on race and colonialism are facing the axe due to cuts. ‘There’s not very much about race…
Life was better in the 1990s
Does anyone else miss the nineties terribly? Everything seemed simpler in that pre-internet era of The Fast Show, the band…
The BBC Proms could do much better than Sam Smith
The Proms, in its latest attempt to be accessible and inclusive, has (via the BBC) booked famously ‘non-binary’ singer Sam…
Why can’t Stonewall’s ex-boss come clean about its trans obsession?
The few days since the publication of the Cass report – the probe into ‘gender identity’ services for young people – have been a revelation. The report,…
The Tories deserve our contempt
The Telegraph reported at the weekend that the Conservative party appears to be attempting, in its selection process for parliamentary…
Anti-Israel virtue signallers should leave Eurovision alone
The 2024 Eurovision Song Contest – the final of which will be held in Malmö on 11 May – is…
Let’s kick ‘racial justice’ out of the Church of England
Holy Week is the most important part of the year for many Christians, but it will come as little surprise…
Steve Harley was no one-hit wonder
Celebrity deaths range from the ‘tragically young’ (Amy Winehouse) to the ‘I thought they’d gone years ago’ (Peregrine Worsthorne) and the monumental (Michael Jackson). But there’s another…
Blame Prince William, not Kate, for the Royal photo blunder
The Princess of Wales has owned up. In a statement on X/ Twitter, she revealed that she was the phantom…
Rishi Sunak can’t save Britain
The Tories have hit an all-time low: an Ipsos poll shows the party on a dismal twenty per cent, with…
The middle-class obsession with the miners’ strike
The miners’ strike has struck again. It’s the fortieth anniversary of the protracted dispute of 1984-85, which means that you…
The truth about John Lewis’s trans takeover
John Lewis is, to most people, a department store that exists to sell toasters, cushions and lamps. But it turns…
Why progressives don’t face real consequences
One of the most tedious and repetitive observations made in the often tedious and repetitive discourse around cancel culture is…
Why can’t Peter Tatchell leave Cliff Richard alone?
Leave Cliff alone! Peter Tatchell has weighed in on Cliff Richard’s refusal to declare his sexual orientation. Tatchell was spurred…
