I have no time for Radio Four’s dross
I switched the radio on in my car today and it went straight to the BBC World at One on…
Why Farage should – and shouldn’t – be UK ambassador to Trump
It is very kind of Nigel Farage to offer his services as a kind of intermediary between our government and…
Does being right-wing make you violent?
I notice that the police are not treating the killings of those children in Southport as a terrorist attack. While…
Farewell, Quincy Jones – I’ll always remember you
There are many reasons to remember Quincy Jones, who has died aged 91 in Los Angeles. Let me deal with…
Why does ITV hate Trump?
It would be consoling to think that the BBC, alone among our supposedly unpartisan TV news providers, is guilty of…
The reparations racket
I have been trying to interest MPs of all parties in joining my call to persuade Barbados to say ‘thank…
The lessons of the Chris Kaba case
I wonder if we should join with the radical campaigning organisation Buy Larger Mansions (BLM) in order to protest about…
Should we prioritise the LGBTQI community when disaster strikes?
Are homosexuals and transgendered people more at risk from natural disasters than the rest of the population? I dare say…
Less Riot Grrl than Riot Lladies Who Lunch: Sleater-Kinney’s Little Rope reviewed
Grade: B- Given that Carrie and Corin are now in their fifties and one of them has settled down with…
Liberals are not just stupid – they’re dangerous
We held a small party to celebrate the news that the UK had seen its largest rise in population in…
In defence of Rosie Duffield
Rosie Duffield’s magnificently rancorous resignation of the Labour whip has reduced the number of MPs on the government side who…
My lessons for David Lammy
There is worryingly little time left to make the appropriate preparations for Bridget Phillipson’s official birthday, on 19 December. As…
Ten times better than Taylor Swift: Romance, by Fontaines D.C., reviewed
Grade: B+ Almost all modern popular music is afflicted by a desperate yearning for importance, and thus – as it…
The BBC’s strange silence
In the long and illustrious history of race chancing, there must have been many more egregious examples than that of…
What happened to pride in our nation?
I suppose there must be someone somewhere in this nation of ours who was surprised by the news that our…
Who will protect me?
Police are hunting a ‘hooded figure’ who sprayed ‘no whites’ on the wall of a primary school in Birmingham. The…
Sourdough is the yeast of our problems
Are radical lesbians dictating what we can and cannot eat, through the offices of this very magazine? It would certainly…
Too bombastic to be country music: Post Malone’s F-1 Trillion reviewed
Grade: B Country music has become the acceptable route through which American pop stars resuscitate their floundering careers: sales are…
Douglas Murray vs the mob
Ihad entirely missed the online furore in which my colleague Douglas Murray was engulfed recently and only found out about…
Bring on the new football season
On a summer’s evening in 1978 I was standing on the platform at Redcar Central station, wondering if I had…
Save our grey belt!
While working as a callow speechwriter for the Labour party in the mid-1980s, I suggested to a member of the…
