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From the Man Cave XVII

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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First cousin marriage

Kissing Cousins 

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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From the Man Cave XVI

Thanks for asking, but my abdominal hernia – referred to recently in this column – is doing extremely well, in fact it’s growing. I am getting so used to having it around that I am thinking of giving it a name. Harry the hernia or Henrietta the hernia, I just cannot decide. Last thing I

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From the Man Cave XV 

It is beginning to get a bit chilly in the man cave these days. Summer is clearly over and autumn is here. Nice to look out at, but with a foretaste of winter. Of course, I have all the mod cons here such as electricity, air-conditioning (rarely used) and heat can be delivered by the

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African boat migrants

Three Out, a Million to Go

We do keep banging on about illegal migrants in these pages, but that is only because they keep arriving. Once it stops, we will stop. That said, we’re off to a flying start. Last time I checked we had deported three illegal migrants to France under our ‘one in, one out’ policy. Otherwise, according to

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Ed Reardon and his cat Elgar

Ed Reardon’s Week

I have no doubt that many readers of TNC will already be familiar with the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Ed Reardon’s Week. I write this in the hope that I can point some others towards this excellent programme, which began in 2005 and ran its 16th series this year. The eponymous star, played by co-creator Christopher Douglas, is

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White cliffs of Dover

One in (No)One Out

I predicted recently in these pages that, whatever the government claim they are going to do about illegal migration, they won’t. And once again, they haven’t. The last Tory government talked a good talk about flying illegals out under two Home Secretaries, Priti Patel and Suella Braverman. But each time they tried, even with planes

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From the Man Cave XIV

Flags continue to occupy the headlines, either being put up or being taken down. There was a good display of them on Saturday at Tommy Robinson’s rally. There was also a good display on the way to Wales on Saturday. I was driving with my grandsons to see our team Hull City AFC play Swansea

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From the Man Cave XIII

I have a shameful admission to make. Until my oldest daughter messaged me to say that Charlie Kirk had been shot, I had never heard of him. He seems to have been a remarkably fearless and articulate debater, a proponent of free speech and politically and spiritually on the side of the angels. He was

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