(Photograph: David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) There’s something deeply distasteful about trial by social media, whoever’s side you might find yourself on. The onslaught is relentless, and has driven people over the edge – with the matter of guilt often very much a secondary concern. This week’s beneficiary of the baying […]
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(Photograph: Derek Bennett, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) It’s taken Nigel Farage a long time; some might say an inordinate amount of time (a decade and a half if you’re counting), but he’s finally gotten around to addressing Britain’s Muslim problem. For this he deserves praise and reproach in equal measure: praise for
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Telling people what they do not wish to hear is a dangerous business. As George Bernard Shaw put it: ‘If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh otherwise they’ll kill you’. History alas is hardly testament to mankind’s bonhomie, awash as it is with the bodies of those who died for their
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It’s hard to make the past 14 years of Tory incompetence look polished, but Rishi Sunak certainly made a good fist of it during Wednesday’s farcical performance outside Number 10. Standing in the pissing rain with nothing to accompany him except the jeers of that megaphoned jackass, Steve Bray, and the New Labour theme tune
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(Photograph: Elekes Andor, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) ‘The sun will shine again in the Netherlands’ remarked a jubilant Geert Wilders last week, as he announced the formation of a right-wing coalition – a coalition which means Holland and the Dutch people will finally get the government they voted for six months ago. Having
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As a commentator on UK politics, it seems the good news get fewer and further between these days. That could of course be down to the fact that I’m a miserable bastard, a decade past my sell-by date; it could also be that Britain is drowning in a sea of its own piss. This week’s
De mortuis nil nisi bonum (never speak ill of the dead) is a maxim we might all care to revisit, particularly in these social media-obsessed times of instant news and instant response. While public and historic figures are unlikely to be afforded such niceties, generally speaking it must surely be the height of bad taste to
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Last week’s local elections were revealing. With the loss of almost 500 councillors, the Tories are toast. Reform UK performed in line with polling, but are still not quite getting over the line without Farage at the helm. London might as well be boarded up, having elected Sadiq Khan for a third term despite his
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Being middle-aged, skint and male has precious little going for it, especially in the over-feminised age we find ourselves in. I confess there is a certain appeal to drinking oneself into oblivion chez the local gentlemen’s club. Unfortunately, while my cognac-laced cohorts idle the hours away grappling with the thorny conundrums of the age, the
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When times are good, the social contract makes for an attractive proposition: the citizen accepts the surrender of certain freedoms to the state in exchange for protection, maintenance of the social order, and representation come election time. It must be said however, that in Britain we are currently far from the best of times. If
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