Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch seem to be involved in a game of anti-immigration Top Trumps. Farage, once the scourge of illegal migrants, quite recently praised the contribution of migrants to the United Kingdom – having considered it expedient to do so. Badenoch meanwhile – whose migrant credentials are impeccable – has done the same. […]
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The man cave remained in Hull while its regular occupant – me – went to Greece with Mrs Watson. This necessitated a prolonged publishing silence, as I was threatened with violence if I sneaked my laptop into my bag or even tried to write anything on my iPad or phone for the duration. My wife’s
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Cancel THIS is surely the book we have all been waiting for. It is hilarious – mostly – and instructive. I say ‘mostly’ because, at times, you must pinch yourself to be reminded that for over two years the citizens of the world went mad with mask mandates and one-way systems in pubs, while the
I arrived at Hull station this Saturday to catch the train to London, en route to Heathrow Airport to take a flight to Greece. Across the road, hemmed in by high metal barriers and police vans were a handful of protesters, mainly elderly, waving Union Flags and wearing Union Flag t-shirts. I can only assume
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Either I am going mental or the world is going mental. If it’s a bit of both, then the world surely has the upper hand. The man cave is back where it belongs, in the back garden in Hull. At least we’re here for a week, before Mrs Watson and I take our old bones
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The University of Edinburgh’s comedy show, aptly performed during the Festival Fringe, continues. In June, it brought us the highest-paid Scottish vice-chancellor who does not know how much he is paid. Now it presents us with a report enticingly called Decolonised Transformations: Confronting the University of Edinburgh’s History and Legacies of Enslavement and Colonialism. It is
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The man cave has been relocated to Istanbul this week and, this being such a colourful and engaging place with great food and – for the time being at least – showing a reasonably acceptable side of Islam, there has been little to rant about. Until… I’m here with my news-hungry grandson, and fellow TNC
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Naturally, the news that the Trump administration had sacked the complete membership of the Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices (ACIP) and replaced it with new members was greeted with consternation by Global Health Now last week. AP News reported the ousted members as saying that ‘rigorous science is being abandoned’. They are also concerned that the credibility of and
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The US Department of Energy’s July 2025 report, A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate, is a gift to those of us on the sceptical side of the climate change agenda. Published last week, the report authored by climate scientists including John Christy, Judith Curry, Steven Koonin, Ross McKitrick,
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I don’t know if children still learn the cumulative rhyme about the old lady who swallowed a fly. Perhaps not as it could be seen as advocating exploitation of animals. In case you have forgotten, it goes like this: There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, I don’t know why she swallowed a
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