Gareth Roberts

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…

Let’s kick ‘racial justice’ out of the Church of England

26 March 2024 5:00 pm

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

19 March 2024 5:00 pm

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

12 March 2024 5:00 pm

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

5 March 2024 5:00 pm

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

27 February 2024 5:00 pm

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

20 February 2024 4:46 pm

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

13 February 2024 5:00 pm

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?

6 February 2024 4:45 pm

Leave Cliff alone! Peter Tatchell has weighed in on Cliff Richard’s refusal to declare his sexual orientation. Tatchell was spurred…

Why is Michael Gove gaslighting himself about the Tories’ achievements?

30 January 2024 10:05 pm

Michael Gove has written a staunch defence of the government’s 14 years of ‘achievements’ for Conservative Home. ‘Do we really…

Nadia Whittome is deluded about drill music

16 January 2024 4:50 pm

Nadia Whittome, no longer Britain’s youngest MP but still quite possibly its daftest, has a new bee in her bonnet.…