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Old College, New Guilt

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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Britain Is at War

I don’t care whatever you say, nor how much of a liberal wet-wipe you might be. No matter how much you supported Remain, how qualified you are as a champagne socialist or however much you believe ‘Refugees are welcome’ in other people’s pants, you cannot deny that the recent report into Muslim rape gangs, the

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Net Zero Ponzi scheme 

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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Comedy in a Time of Compliance

I have almost given up on late-night comedy on BBC Radio 4. In fact, I have almost given up on the station entirely. The news is biased, and the comedy—studiously avoiding the tripwires of the woke and hypersensitive—is rarely funny. One of my favourite programmes used to be Dead Ringers, the topical satirical impressions show fronted by

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Imam Fumes: Rape and Murder Not Quite Britain’s Cup of Tea

The latest YouGov poll on religious attitudes has sparked outrage from within the British Muslim community – particularly its finding that the host population considers Islam to be incompatible with British values. The survey, conducted by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community ahead of this weekend’s Jalsa Salana (the UK’s largest Muslim convention), discovered that while 25%

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