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’,
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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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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