Peter Murrell the political activist, collector, and Scottish vaudeville supporting act has been sent to prison for five years for stealing money from the separatist SNP, and spending it on miscellaneous items in an extended and eccentric shopping spree with no detectable heterosexual pattern to it. Sentencing Mr Murrell at the High Court in Edinburgh, […]
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Andy Burnham is auditioning to replace Keir Starmer as First Algorithm to the Treasury. In service of this strange ambition he is going to give up the Manchester mayoralty and re-enter the Commons after finding a safe Labour seat. He is confident that such a thing exists, empiricism notwithstanding. Bless him. You have to suspect
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In the US, as here, the voluble Left suffers from what you might call a “determinism of malice”. No gobbet of spite gets wasted; that’s just the way things are. They can’t help themselves. Perhaps the motivating assumption is that to be a free thinker, you must applaud every moral obscenity that pops up on
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I try to keep out of the “who’s your favourite cannibal?” debate because it always gets too political. If you say Anthony Hopkins then some lefty grievance fetishist will start screaming in Glaswegian something which sounds a bit like “Brian Cox”. Dahmer used to be a safe choice but he was eating people before transexuals
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For many years the late Michael Wharton wrote a column for The Daily Telegraph using the pseudonym Peter Simple. He created therein a Swiftian world populated by caricatured familiars. He was writing at a time when satire was possible, well before Starmer’s forced merger between the normal and the grotesque. One such familiar is Mrs
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If you’ve seen it, you’ll know that A Prayer for the Dying is the worst film ever made. If you haven’t then you’re just going to have to trust me. Its awfulness is incommunicable even by critics far more articulate than this one. You might get a sense of it if I tell you that
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