The Green party is barking mad
The enormous fun of Crufts has reminded us that Britain is a nation of dog lovers. Or maybe we’re kidding…
The strange chutzpah of Nadiya Hussain
Nadiya Hussain, winner of The Great British Bake Off in 2015, has it seems reached the end of the road with…
The Baftas n-word row has been very revealing
At the Baftas on Sunday night, John Davidson – whose story of living with Tourette’s syndrome is dramatised in the (very…
How many right-wing parties do we really need?
Reform has topped every national poll for a good long while – benefitting, as the Greens also have and the…
How many right-wing parties do we really need?
Reform has topped every national poll for a good long while – benefitting, as the Greens also have and the…
The eternal danger of an actor without a script
Actors have been saying unscripted things again. Riz Ahmed is the star of a brand-new film version of Hamlet directed…
A radio licence won’t save the BBC
According to the Times, the BBC – strapped for cash as millions more stop paying the TV licence, and struggling to…
The joy of Labour psychodrama
As the three-word headline, ‘STARMER BLOCKS BURNHAM’ smashed on to our phone screens on Saturday, I felt I could almost…
We’re trapped in 2016
With all the talk of Brexit, do you ever get the sense that social media is stuck in 2016? Well,…
This Labour government is fascinatingly awful
The eerie and the uncanny fascinate us, whether it’s the abominable snowman, the Loch Ness monster or the Bermuda Triangle.…
Three cheers for the death of the music video!
MTV has pulled down the shutters on its dedicated music video channels, casting off what remained of its original raison…
Where is the pop culture rage at Keir Starmer?
Keir Starmer is unpopular. You may have noticed this from his record-breakingly low approval ratings. The weekend just gone brought…
Why I pity the liberals being mugged by reality
What a mess. This little phrase seems unequal to the task of describing the situation Britain finds itself in after…
Why Labour’s plotters are doomed to fail
Rewatching the 1974 version of Murder on the Orient Express the other night, I was struck by the incredible organisational…
Labour are almost as deluded as the Your Party faithful
Kemi Badenoch has some thoughts on the Labour party. When pressed by the Telegraph on who or what would come…
The problem with funky vicars
The Reverend Kate Bottley, the celebrity vicar who came to fame on Gogglebox, has a message for the nation. ‘The…
I once accidentally freed a prisoner
Some 91 prisoners have been freed by mistake between April and October of this year, according to government figures released…
The BBC has been taken over by middle-class brats
After its Gotterdämerung week, capped by the ‘sorry not sorry’ resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness, it didn’t take…
Can the last ‘working person’ in Britain please turn out the lights?
Early morning surprises can be lovely, but not when they involve Rachel Reeves. Probably the last thing anybody wants to…
Labour is living in a fantasy Britain
What imaginary country does Labour’s new deputy leader, Lucy Powell, live in? When Powell was crowned as the official thorn-in-the-side…
Britain is frozen by fear
What do the following things have in common? The ‘Safety Advisory Group’ of Birmingham City Council banning the sale of…
The truth about the Green party’s booming membership
The Greens are having quite a moment. Since the anointing of Zack Polanski as leader of the party, there’s been…
The sorry sight of the ageing protestor
Among the 488 arrests at the weekend at what the media is still pleased to call ‘pro-Palestine demonstrations’ were many,…
So long, G-A-Y
The G-A-Y Bar in Soho’s Old Compton Street is to close for good this weekend. It opened in the mid-1990s,…
Labour conference is more deluded than a Doctor Who convention
The Labour conference, given the government’s current levels of popularity – somewhere about the same rung occupied by, say, galloping…
