Eleven train passengers were seriously injured on Saturday night, on a line I use regularly between Doncaster and London (as of publication, five have been discharged and one remains in a life-threatening condition). I must say the fact I use that line and sometimes that very train really brings it home. I hope, whoever those […]
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The older I get the less I see the point in changing the clocks twice a year. Peter Hitchens has been ahead of the curve on this one for years saying that the effect, especially of the clock going forward and losing that precious hour of sleep in Spring, is akin to jetlag and is
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It is over a decade since the BBC questioned whether the Church of England was still the ‘Tory Party at prayer’. In 2014, reckoning that most English Anglicans voted Conservative, it concluded that it was. It is doubtful if that is still the case, so obsessed with minority rights, reparations and institutional racism is the
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How can you release a migrant sex offender ‘in error’? Is it because they all look the same? It must be so easy to get confused if you are a prison officer. Perhaps, as Hadush Kebatu – an Ethiopian sex offender who was due for deportation – was being led to the prison doors, he was
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One has been absent from the man cave for ten days and my reprinted column in these pages from the Daily Sceptic on 20 October provides some insight. Mrs Watson and I have been in the United States, first for a week in Missouri and then a weekend in Washington DC. This was my first
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The United States of America is undergoing a rather brilliant innovation right now, a federal shutdown. Essentially, nothing that is run by the Government is functioning and indefinitely, as the Trump administration – currently in the fourth shutdown under Trump (a presidential record) – haggles with the opposition over the allocation of funds under the
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If you have republican tendencies, then this book may tip you over the edge. Ostensibly about Prince Andrew – the Duke of York – and his former, yet strangely not estranged, wife Sarah Ferguson it is impossible not to see the sub-plot which reads a bit like “why did Her Majesty the Queen (Elizabeth II)
A man by the name of Jihad Al-Shamie attacks and kills a man at a synagogue in Manchester which, by this point, is quite old news. According to Nick Dixon and Paul Cox on The Current Thing podcast, while it is bleedingly obvious what the man’s religion is, the fact that he is ‘Muslim’ has
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Wasn’t it inevitable? Named early as a potential successor to the previous arse-bishop, the only thing that surprised me is that it took so long to appoint her. By ‘her’ I am, of course, referring to Dame Sarah Mullally who has just been announced as the next Archbishop of Canterbury. Apart from anything else, this
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The NHS, more used to providing us with rich seams of comedic material than anything vaguely related to health, has struck again, albeit briefly. On an NHS sponsored blog some joker was given free rein to write a posting titled: “Should the UK government ban first-cousin marriage?” Instead of the swift and obvious answer ‘yes’,
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