I expected more from Caitlin Moran
I first met Caitlin Moran at Julie Burchill’s flat in Bloomsbury. This was in the early 1990s and she was…
In praise of Milan Kundera
The Czech-born writer Milan Kundera has died, at the age of 94. Four years ago, Toby Young wrote this tribute…
How do you solve a problem like debanking?
As I sat down to write this column, an old friend let me know he’d just been ‘debanked’. That is,…
Young’s First Law of free speech
I’ve always been envious of journalists who give their names to ‘laws’, as in O’Sullivan’s First Law: ‘All organisations that…
How should schools handle ‘furries’?
Last weekend an audio recording emerged of a 13-year-old girl being called ‘despicable’ by her teacher at a Church of…
Did the BBC silence lockdown sceptics?
Did the BBC breach its own impartiality rules by keeping critics of the government’s pandemic response off the air during…
I’ve been radicalised by Just Stop Oil
Last month I went to Lord Frost’s superb lecture for the Global Warming Policy Foundation about the harm net zero…
The demonisation of Kathleen Stock
It had been billed as the most controversial debate of the year, with even Rishi Sunak intervening to say that…
Men like me are sitting targets
I have a confession to make: I’m a sitzpinkler. That’s the German word for men who sit down when they…
My search for a Matt Hancock impersonator
I’m trying to organise an event in Westminster with the journalist Isabel Oakeshott and it’s proving a bit of a…
Carmageddon: the electric vehicle boondoggle
A couple of years ago I thought seriously about buying an electric car. Not a hybrid, but the full monty.…
I’ve ridden my last rollercoaster
I was in Canada last week, travelling across British Columbia on a luxury train called the Rocky Mountaineer. It was…
My blue tick humiliation
I was one of the first people to take up Elon Musk’s offer to purchase a blue tick, the Twitter…
The ‘public humiliation diet’ is very effective
As another summer approaches, I’ve embarked on yet another attempt to lose weight. You’d have thought I’d have learnt my…
How to mobilise the police
I wasn’t surprised to hear that six police officers raided a pub in Essex after a customer complained about the…
Are Queens Park Rangers cursed?
A dark cloud has descended over Queens Park Rangers, my beloved football club. On 22 October last year, when we…
There’s no bargaining with my wife
For me, one of the joys of going abroad is bargaining with the local sellers. They name an extortionate price;…
Who owns your child’s image?
On Monday, a bill was passed by the National Assembly in France that will give courts the power to prevent…
The remarkable prescience of Alexis de Tocqueville
Toby Young is struck by how prescient Tocqueville’s observations have proved on the social and political structures of the many countries he visited
When is a crime not a crime?
On Monday, Suella Braverman published draft guidance designed to rein in the police habit of recording a ‘non-crime hate incident’…
Why I admire Isabel Oakeshott
I’ve been gripped by the Telegraph’s Lockdown Files. The 100,000 WhatsApp messages on Matt Hancock’s phone, handed to the paper…
The brilliance of Lime Bikes
I was disappointed to learn that the authorities are planning to crack down on dockless bikes and electric scooters. Westminster…
Hancock’s lockdown files show there was no Covid ‘plandemic’
For those of us who were cynical about the government’s pandemic response as it was unfolding in real time –…
It’s hard work being a house husband
I’m currently sitting on top of a brownie point mountain. Caroline has departed for a two-week tennis freebie in Barbados,…
