Dear Baroness Hallet, I find it strange that the inquiry you chair goes into lots of aspects of the Covid pandemic, but I can’t see that any of the modules actually look at practical ways of mitigating the effects of future respiratory virus pandemics. It also is surprising that there is little on how business handled […]
A Letter to the Covid Inquiry Read More »
With the Christmas turkey now much like the Conservative Party, all but consigned to the dustbin of history, the New Year festivities are drawing in. What better time to honour the movers and shakers who laboured night and day to make 2023 the unmitigated disaster it was? And if Liz Truss is free to bestow
The New Conservative Alternative Honours List Read More »
The ability to dispassionately assess the crime rate in Britain is now close to an impossibility, thanks to the duplicity and the negligence of those charged with the data collection. One would be naïve in the extreme to believe that our governments report the facts black and white, and the Tories are no exception. The
Sadiq Khan: The Poster Boy For Broken Britain Read More »
The only time I have seen a celebrity in the flesh was on Cambridge’s Trumpington Street. I had gone to the bank one Saturday lunchtime to withdraw cash and on returning to my college, there, walking towards me, was the tall, expansive figure of Stephen Fry. As one who had laughed along with millions of
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Recently, Douglas Murray ruminated in The Spectator as to what one might mean by the phrase ‘deep England’. His meditations were sparked by recalling General de Gaulle’s speech to the Free French that deployed the phrase ‘la France profonde’ to stir up resistance to the Nazi occupiers. French partisans were to fight for what is quintessentially
While it may once have been risqué for employers to exclude white men from their recruitment process, fast forward to 2023 and most hiring panels appear to have decided it’s riskier to include them. Infuriated by the failure of equality to produce equal outcomes, our liberal culture demands a bogeyman – and in the straight,
Aviva: The War on White Men Continues Read More »
My recent journey into London was heart-breaking. As my train pulled into Stratford station I felt decidedly uneasy, surrounded by unfamiliarity and strangeness. I grew up in London during the 1980s, so have always felt comfortable living in a multi-ethnic urban centre, but this was different. The multiplicity of languages being spoken and the eclectic
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When I was 15 in 1978, the English, Drama and Music departments of my school, Brigshaw Comprehensive, held ‘An Evening of Dreams.’ The programme consisted of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, a reading from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and a performance of the Everly Brothers’ All I Have To Do Is Dream. There was
Aviva: Firing Blancs Read More »
Should we speak ill of the dead? Probably, not–if we can help ourselves. Speaking ill of someone who can’t speak up for himself is too much like kicking a chap when he’s down. But how about speaking ill of the living for praising the dead for qualities they didn’t have? Surely, we may do that,
Benjamin Zephaniah … “a titan of British literature”? Read More »
When George Bush Jr sent his troops into Iraq back in 2003, his declared motive was the extirpation of Saddam Hussein’s WMDs and the elimination of Iraqi-sponsored terrorism. The Left dismissed his demarche as a cynical desire to annex Iraq’s oil reserves. Millions of anti-war protesters marched in capitals across sixty nations. Yet, now that Nicolas
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