“An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman walk into a pub…” or so the joke goes. If you’re old enough to remember this staple gag of English standup, you’ll know that it got its laughs from the Irishman doing or saying something hilariously silly. Such condescension towards Irish people as charming fools is certainly no […]
It appears to be the case that one of the last places where red-bloodied English patriotism can be displayed without the ‘progressive’ left pouring shame on it is at sporting events. It is on football terraces where we see the purest form of national pride. England’s fans belt out the national anthem, proudly wave their
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English universities have not always been the epitome of free speech that they are supposed to be. It was only in 1871 that Roman Catholics, Protestant nonconformists and atheists were able to attend and hold teaching posts at university with the passing of the Universities Test Act. However, that is nearly 160 years ago, and
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As a child, I was a proverbial book worm. In fact, I might have merited the title of book python because I ‘ingested’ so many books. One of my favourite childhood recollections is of spending Saturday mornings at my local library and coming home with a carrier bag ponderous with books on topics such as
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My experience of the police has been a mixed one. No, I am not a criminal. What I am referring to is how police officers have responded to my requests for help, even my mere presence, over the years, and the responses depended upon which country I was in. Most of my interactions have been
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One of the essential elements of truth is the use of words according to their accurate definitions. If I think the word red denotes what is classified as green, I cannot accurately identify things that are red. There are layers of meaning to words too. Again, take the word red. It is a colour adjective.
David Lammy, Britain’s foreign secretary, is a man of contradictions. Despite having studied at Harvard Law School no less, he managed to balls up some pretty easy questions on Celebrity Mastermind some years ago. When asked who had won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 for her research into radiation, he gave Marie Antoinette
The Church of England, an institution that is predicted to be extinct by 2062 by mathematician and R number analyst Dr John Hayward, is yet again doing its damned hardest to fulfil the prophecy. Recently, the Church announced a £100 million slavery reparations fund to provide investment in black British communities it claims are still
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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, which is found in his magnum opus The Republic, is used to illustrate how humans are ignorant of ultimate reality. It was written as an imagined dialogue between Plato’s brother and his mentor Socrates. According to Socrates, humanity is like people who are chained in a cave in a position
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As many countries in the EU swing rightwards, Britain has a new left-wing government with an eye-watering majority of 412 out of 650 seats. The Conservatives have clung on to a mere 121 seats. A flawed Brexit, income-crushing levels of taxation and inflation, and a surge in immigration meant that the electorate was in no
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