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Roger Watson

Gary Lineker

Plug in Your Shredder: There’s a Lineker Memoir on the Way

(Photograph: Liton Ali, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) In a brilliantly written piece for spiked, titled ‘Gary Lineker: patron saint of the over-privileged’, the inestimable Julie Burchill skewers His Holiness for his shameless self-promotion and utter lack of self-awareness. When it comes to virtue-signalling, as described previously in these pages, Gary Lineker really is […]

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Burning money

Rip-off Britain 

Not content with throwing vast amounts of cash at the uncontrolled number of asylum seekers running up the beaches of the southeast coast (nearly £50 a head weekly plus free accommodation and free healthcare)*, we throw £11 billion annually at a variety of hopeless international causes in the shape of the overseas aid budget. It

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White Cliffs of Dover

Getting Tough on Asylum Seekers

Comedian Leo Kearse suggested on GB News Headliners that we could advertise our NHS waiting lists more forcefully or the convoluted system for trying to make an appointment with a GP. However, that is unlikely to work given that GP waiting rooms are often full of immigrant families who must have a special NHS app. That is, one that works. 

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LGBTQwerty Airlines

LGBTQwerty Airlines 

Most, if not all, the passengers on a flight care not a jot about the sexual orientation of the crew; they simply don’t need to know. Call me old fashioned (I have been called much worse on Twitter lately), but is there not something reassuring about a smart, biological sex appropriately dressed crew on an airplane?

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