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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De mortuis nil nisi bonum (never speak ill of the dead) is a maxim we might all care to revisit, particularly in these social media-obsessed times of instant news and instant response. While public and historic figures are unlikely to be afforded such niceties, generally speaking it must surely be the height of bad taste to
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Following on from his initial manifesto post, Alastair MacMillan moves on to energy policy: At present, UK energy policy hangs round the Climate Change and Net Zero Acts that are predicated on one view of why the climate has shown signs of warming over the last forty years. There are other very valid scientific views that are
(Photograph: Mona, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) We can be thankful, so far, that the crumbling Conservative Party did not adopt the ridiculous APPG definition of Islamophobia. This definition, while claiming ‘that Muslims are subject to a system of discrimination, control and socio-economic exclusion, alongside hate crime, harassment and abuse’ also wanted the
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(Photograph: Zairon, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) In 1996, Jenny Joseph’s poem Warning was voted as Britain’s favourite post-war poem. It is not hard to see why, for it is a funny poem in which the narrator declares that after a lifetime of decorum, she will engage in unconventional behaviour when she is
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Imagine if Lord Nelson had issued orders aboard HMS Victory to ‘prepare to repel boarders’, the marines mustered and they asked, ‘what with Captain?’ It strikes me that we face a similar situation here in the UK. What’s more, many of the boarders have already boarded, undetected until now, and are busy poking holes in
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Being middle-aged, skint and male has precious little going for it, especially in the over-feminised age we find ourselves in. I confess there is a certain appeal to drinking oneself into oblivion chez the local gentlemen’s club. Unfortunately, while my cognac-laced cohorts idle the hours away grappling with the thorny conundrums of the age, the
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