The dystopian police investigation into Allison Pearson
Here’s a tip. If you’re having trouble getting the police to promptly attend after a burglary, tell them the scumbag…
Braverman’s Cambridge cancellation exposes the campus free speech crisis
Anti-fascism ain’t what it used to be. It used to mean signing up to go to fight Franco’s fascists in…
Surprise, surprise, Dale Vince wants vegan schools
Socialism, wrote George Orwell, has often had a habit of attracting posh cranks. He witheringly described the ‘sandal-wearers and bearded…
Windsor doesn’t deserve to be subjected to Extinction Rebellion
Pray for Windsor. From today, Extinction Rebellion is descending on Windsor Home Park for ‘three days of creative, peaceful action to propose…
Ofcom can’t be trusted to censor social media
It’s boom time at Ofcom. In the past few years, what was until recently the government-backed regulator for broadcasting, telecoms…
Why is the Welsh government so worried about racist buildings?
It’s hard to keep up with what is racist these days. It used to be straightforward. You know, discriminating against,…
Why is the EU trying to censor Elon Musk?
It must be exhausting being Elon Musk. Alongside sending rockets into space, working on brain implants and running one of…
The real reason Just Stop Oil target airports
Just Stop Oil’s campaign to infuriate ordinary people has moved up a gear. After bringing traffic to a standstill and…
The troubling truth about Keir Starmer
‘A politics that treads more lightly on all our lives.’ That’s what Keir Starmer – remarkably, our new Prime Minister –…
Democrats can’t pretend to be shocked by Joe Biden’s decline
What a difference a week makes. Last week, White House spinners and Democratic pundits were insisting that clips of US president Joe Biden appearing…
Who can blame the Greens’ co-leader for not getting a heat pump?
Far be it from me to give advice to the Green Party. From their insistence that ordinary people put up…
The troubling truth about the Greens
Wind farms. Heat pumps. Hamas apologism. It’s a curious combination, but one that an alarmingly high number of Green party…
Of course it isn’t racist to tell a Japanese colleague you like sushi
Is it racist to tell a Japanese colleague that you like sushi? No, says an employment-tribunal judge, in another welcome…
What was the point of Just Stop Oil’s Magna Carta stunt?
The eco-activists of Just Stop Oil have often been caricatured as a group of middle-class students with too much time…
Brexit didn’t ruin Rufus Wainwright’s musical
Blaming Brexit for everything has become a kind of tic among the great and good. Like the buck-passing politicians who…
Tan Ikram and the corruption of the justice system
The case of the ‘paraglider girls’ just keeps getting worse, exposing a criminal-justice system that seems to have become riddled…
Why don’t Tories like Gillian Keegan want to talk about asylum?
Does the Tory party have a death wish? It’s a question we have been prompted to ask again and again…
How will attacking the Mona Lisa save the planet?
Now the environmentalists are going after the Mona Lisa. Because of course they are. Just when you thought you couldn’t dislike…
The trouble with Armando Iannucci
Armando Iannucci is a bit of a mystery to me. With shows like The Day Today and The Thick of It, he created…
Why is a Tory MP calling for GB News to be ‘taken off air’?
Well, that didn’t take long. We’re not even 48 hours into the latest Twitterstorm about upstart anti-woke news channel GB…
The danger of politicians trying to demonetise Russell Brand
We must have the most unprincipled, illiberal crop of politicians ever to grace Westminster. Within hours of the House of…
Why eco zealots love to hate Ryanair
There are many reasons why someone might want to throw a cream pie at Michael O’Leary, the motormouth boss of…
Virginia Woolf doesn’t need a trigger warning
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Americans, apparently. Or at least that’s the conclusion Vintage US seems to have drawn. The…
The climate ‘crisis’ has nothing to do with the Holocaust
What is it with environmentalists and the Holocaust? Barely a month goes by without some prominent green or another outrageously…
Jonny Bairstow shows how to deal with Just Stop Oil
Give Jonny Bairstow a knighthood. Whatever else happens at the Ashes, or indeed throughout the rest of his cricketing career,…
