The late Anglo-American writer, Christopher Hitchens, once declared to journalist Alice Fordham the following: “My attitude to posters with swastikas on them has always been the same. They should be ripped down.” Hitchens was right: the swastika is viscerally provocative. Not for Hindus, of course, for whom it is an ancient symbol of good luck […]
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Rightly do D-Day and the Normandy beach landings grip the imagination. Its scale was immense: it was the largest seaborne invasion in history involving thousands of boats, ships and aircraft and around 160,000 troops from the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Greece, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. (If I
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Not only are Woke convictions deciding which statues stay intact, they are now dictating which statues can be put up. It has made the news that Landsec, the commercial owner of Portsmouth’s Gunwharf Quays, has rejected plans for a statue honouring the heroic efforts of the sailors of the Royal West Africa Squadron in fighting
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One of the most satisfying things to witness is when a bullied victim finally stands up for himself, beats his tormentor in a fight and wins everyone’s respect. I was once such a person. I was eleven years old and a member of a church choir. Another choir boy who was two years older took
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While Cambridge University tolerates students glamping on its sacred lawns in protest at what they think is an Israeli genocide in Gaza, the history faculty is busy committing what may be termed historical genocide. It teaches its undergraduates that the Anglo-Saxons never existed to undermine the nationalist myth that to be English a person must
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(Photograph: Zairon, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) In 1996, Jenny Joseph’s poem Warning was voted as Britain’s favourite post-war poem. It is not hard to see why, for it is a funny poem in which the narrator declares that after a lifetime of decorum, she will engage in unconventional behaviour when she is
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In a recent online article, the BBC informed its readers that according to the National Skills Academy for Rail, the average train driver is forty-six years old, male and white. You know that when the BBC reports something like that, it is a cue for yet another condescending lecture about various ‘isms’ and the need
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As I write, students in universities across the US are occupying their campuses in protest at what they consider to be Israel’s genocide against the Gazan people. Unlike the Met Police who freeze at the prospect of arresting pro-Palestine demonstrators guilty of breaching the peace, the American police who have no such hang ups are
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Since Hamas’ pogrom on 7 October 2023, we have had much confirmation of what we knew already: that the Metropolitan Police operate a two-tier policing policy. Certain types of protestors such as genocidal jihadis are given carte balance to commit public disorder acts whereas others, such as peaceful women holding a candle-lit vigil for the
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That is a good question, and the answer is not any time soon. The latest example of Labourite condescension comes from the Guardian which reports that there are Labour MPs and activists who are very reluctant to use their party’s campaign literature since Keir Starmer had the Union Jack emblazoned on it. Their reason? They fear that
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