In March 2021, writing about army cutbacks, I joked that far from being able to take back the Falklands now we would be unable to take back the Isle of Man. Turns out I was right. The ill-fated aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales, en route to join the US fleet for exercises, broke down […]
A new word entered the lexicon in the early days of the Covid scandal – ‘Covidiot’. Initially defined as those who endangered the lives of others, the term fast became applied to anyone who questioned the official Covid narrative. Anyone who dared suggest that we may have gone a teensy bit over the top with
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That supreme basket case among economic basket cases, Scotland, may have turned its back on independence but that has not saved it from the ongoing madness of the SNP. People used to go to Scotland annually to the Fringe Festival to have a laugh at the comedians on show there. Now you don’t need to
It may come as a shock to readers to learn that pocket billiards, choking the chicken or bashing the bishop—choose your euphemism—is now a university level subject. It has always been available as an extracurricular activity but now it has officially moved to the mainstream, and someone is writing a PhD about it. Not only
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Reluctant as I am to kick over a ladder I have recently climbed, it has to be said, British Universities aren’t what they used to be. Having worked in a series of them myself, one can’t help feeling they are reaching their sell by date. At the very least, their politically correct antics are making
A friend messaged me to say there was a report on the BBC News website about a tree hugging contest recently held in Scotland. I thought it was a joke and checked that the date was not April 1st. Then I checked Google, and it turned out to be true. To be precise, the inaugural
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I first picked up a copy of The New Statesman at Glasgow Central Station on one of many trips I made between my parents’ home on the west coast of Scotland to Edinburgh where I was a student. I can’t recall the year, but it must have been during the editorial reign of Anthony Howard
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There were credible reports of people spontaneously combusting today as the heatwave, however attenuated, continued for a final day. Along with the latest in the ongoing series of the Great Fires of London, the thousands of deaths that were predicted and the never-ending stream of drivel from public health experts such as Sadiq Khan—the Great
Our national health service, coincidentally known as the National Health Service (NHS), continues to disintegrate into chaos and, in some places, paralysis. Fêted for decades as the jewel in the crown of our welfare state, it has fallen for its own rhetoric and thinks that it only needs to exist to merit praise. When troubles
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I had the misfortune to be the inaugural chair of one of the series of Lancet Commissions, this one into nursing. This was one of the many mistakes I have made in my professional life and not one of my proudest aspects of my Wikipedia entry which some charitable souls curate for me. I tried
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