If you’ve spent any length of time becoming good at something, it’s rather depressing to acknowledge that artificial intelligence is destined to prove the death of it. Obviously as a writer, I’m concerned that the neural networks will inevitably outsource my ability to procrastinate, drink tea, and occasionally come up with a half-decent one-liner. Evidently, […]
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Not only are Woke convictions deciding which statues stay intact, they are now dictating which statues can be put up. It has made the news that Landsec, the commercial owner of Portsmouth’s Gunwharf Quays, has rejected plans for a statue honouring the heroic efforts of the sailors of the Royal West Africa Squadron in fighting
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(Photograph: David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) There’s something deeply distasteful about trial by social media, whoever’s side you might find yourself on. The onslaught is relentless, and has driven people over the edge – with the matter of guilt often very much a secondary concern. This week’s beneficiary of the baying
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Telling people what they do not wish to hear is a dangerous business. As George Bernard Shaw put it: ‘If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh otherwise they’ll kill you’. History alas is hardly testament to mankind’s bonhomie, awash as it is with the bodies of those who died for their
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One of the most satisfying things to witness is when a bullied victim finally stands up for himself, beats his tormentor in a fight and wins everyone’s respect. I was once such a person. I was eleven years old and a member of a church choir. Another choir boy who was two years older took
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We hear plenty about ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ a condition described as ‘a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason.’ While it didn’t have a name, a similar syndrome was attached to Margaret
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People are occasionally described as ‘mushrooms’, meaning that they have been kept in the dark and fed on manure (that’s the polite version). It is not a very polite way to refer to someone and, without doubt, will seem like an insult to our Muslim compatriots. But then again, almost anything can be considered an
While Cambridge University tolerates students glamping on its sacred lawns in protest at what they think is an Israeli genocide in Gaza, the history faculty is busy committing what may be termed historical genocide. It teaches its undergraduates that the Anglo-Saxons never existed to undermine the nationalist myth that to be English a person must
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As a commentator on UK politics, it seems the good news get fewer and further between these days. That could of course be down to the fact that I’m a miserable bastard, a decade past my sell-by date; it could also be that Britain is drowning in a sea of its own piss. This week’s
The expansion of the universities (turning them into unis) has been disastrous, for, I think, three main reasons: the cost to the national economy; the financial and other costs to individual students; and the effect of the expansion on the universities themselves and, through them, on public discourse generally. (1) The costs to the economy
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