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I’ve checked my privilege, thanks. I’m still right
This week, I bring you a dispatch from the frontline of pseudo-intellectual, metropolitan navel-gazing. This is, after all, what you…
The greens are wrong about logging, too
Just because the environmentalists have been proved so epically wrong about global warming doesn’t mean they’re right about everything else.…
Why Ukip is a party of extremists
Last Saturday I wrote for my newspaper a column whose drift was that it was time for the sane majority…
Better to be the founder of a cool social network than the billion-dollar buyer
I haven’t used Yahoo as a general search engine since an American friend introduced me to the miracle that was…
Here’s why Tories shouldn’t do smear campaigns
‘Pick the target, freeze it, personalise it and polarise it.’ This is the best-known of Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals,…
Better to be the founder of a cool social network than the billion-dollar buyer
I haven’t used Yahoo as a general search engine since an American friend introduced me to the miracle that was…
The wheat and the chaff of online comments
What’s to be done about the online comments sections in daily newspapers? These (for those estimable Spectator readers who have…
Niall Ferguson shouldn’t have apologised for his comments about Keynes
Is it homophobic to argue that it’s mainly gay men who keep the flame of popular culture alive? If so,…
What do the innocent have to fear? Ask Google
Forgive me, but let’s go straight in. Readers of a sensitive disposition look away, but there’s a serious reason for…
These days, I’m with the squirrel-killers
What is the correct expression to wear, I wonder, when you’ve just caught a squirrel in your squirrel trap? Guilt?…
A tale of HS2 cities
The route was unveiled this week for phase two of HS2 — and those who got hot under the collar…
A tale of HS2 cities
The route was unveiled this week for phase two of HS2 — and those who got hot under the collar…
Last orders
Sad news from the Campaign for Real Ale, which says that more and more young people are drinking at home…
Last orders
Sad news from the Campaign for Real Ale, which says that more and more young people are drinking at home…
The Wizard of Oz
The Conservatives’ next election campaign will be run by Lynton Crosby, an Australian whose success has earned him the title…
The Wizard of Oz
The Conservatives’ next election campaign will be run by Lynton Crosby, an Australian whose success has earned him the title…
The Tortoise and the Lib Dems
The Lib Dems have been thoroughly ineffectual in the coalition. So much so that some of us — including Hugo…
The Tortoise and the Lib Dems
The Lib Dems have been thoroughly ineffectual in the coalition. So much so that some of us — including Hugo…
Gone with the corsets
Painful, barbaric and Victorian are the words I think of when someone says corset, and yet these torturous contraptions are…
Gone with the corsets
Painful, barbaric and Victorian are the words I think of when someone says corset, and yet these torturous contraptions are…
Monsieur Hollande and Madame Bovary
François Hollande has had it with austerity. Well, fair enough — austerity is dull and painful. No wonder other European…
Monsieur Hollande and Madame Bovary
François Hollande has had it with austerity. Well, fair enough — austerity is dull and painful. No wonder other European…
Brideshead re-elected
David Cameron and George Osborne have been repeatedly accused by a fellow Conservative of being ‘posh boys who don’t know…
Brideshead re-elected
David Cameron and George Osborne have been repeatedly accused by a fellow Conservative of being ‘posh boys who don’t know…
Funding: Local heroes
I was acting and directing at Helmsley Arts Centre last week, in a little piece of ‘café theatre’ performed in…
