Gareth Roberts

We’re being ruled by a 1980s left-wing student elite

10 September 2024 7:06 pm

We are now governed by people who were left-wing students in the 1980s and early 90s. This is one of…

There’s no shame in being ‘weird’

4 September 2024 9:58 pm

Are Conservative politicians ‘weird’? A series of focus groups carried out by More in Common suggests that voters – particularly…

What Carol Vorderman gets wrong about the TV industry

27 August 2024 7:30 pm

Carol Vorderman has given a speech to the Edinburgh Television Festival, in which she complains that the TV industry is too middle class. This…

Why the ‘sensibles’ aren’t happy now the Tories are gone 

20 August 2024 10:26 pm

I have to confess that, like many other commentators, I thought that the coming of the Labour government would mean…

The tyranny of twee

13 August 2024 4:00 pm

The horrific murders in Southport earlier this month were followed by horrific riots and horrific counter-riots. But fear not. Because…

Should civil servants be allowed to wear inappropriate clothes to work?

6 August 2024 3:30 pm

Does His Majesty’s Government have a policy on civil servants wearing fetish clothing in the workplace? It’s not the sort…

Just Stop Oil and the secret power of the middle class

31 July 2024 3:15 pm

Just Stop Oil isn’t what it was. When a handful of protestors from the environmental group tried to block a…

Has the opening ceremony finished yet?

27 July 2024 6:33 pm

The 2012 British opening ceremony has sadly become a shorthand for nostalgic Remainy twee. But la grande débâcle in Paris last night brought…

Keir Starmer and the illusion of ‘seriousness’

9 July 2024 5:42 pm

The first few days of a totally new government are disorientating. Nobody knows quite how to react. The electoral dust…

The Tories: a requiem

4 July 2024 4:00 pm

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

25 June 2024 4:23 pm

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

22 June 2024 4:00 pm

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

18 June 2024 3:00 pm

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

13 June 2024 6:46 pm

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

11 June 2024 3:56 pm

‘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

4 June 2024 3:30 pm

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

29 May 2024 4:00 pm

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

21 May 2024 3:30 pm

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’

17 May 2024 4:00 pm

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

7 May 2024 9:10 pm

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

27 April 2024 4:00 pm

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

27 April 2024 12:25 am

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?

16 April 2024 4:03 pm

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

9 April 2024 4:00 pm

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

2 April 2024 8:06 pm

The 2024 Eurovision Song Contest – the final of which will be held in Malmö on 11 May – is…