When I heard that Frederick Forsyth’s 1975 novella The Shepherd had been made into a Christmas film, I was uneasy and curious in equal measure. I was captivated by Forsyth’s 1971 The Day of the Jackal, both the book and the original film, but slightly less impressed by The Odessa File published in 1972. However, […]
Just as we were beginning to enjoy 2023, with all that it had to offer for the casual political observer and writer, 2024 is upon us. Heralded in by the Mullah of London proclaiming his magnificence to the world by letting off a few million quids’ worth of squibs, we’re off to a flying start
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(Photograph: VisitCopenhagen, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) According to opinion polls, most Australians wish to remove the British monarch as their head of state and become a republic. Thus, in anticipation of their glorious revolution, if and whenever that will be, King Charles does not appear on Australian banknotes. During their broadcast of
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Arsenal’s woeful display against West Ham at ‘not-so-fortress’ Emirates last week robbed me of my only source of optimism for 2024. Jesus’ two missed headers, Saka’s waning ability to terrify fullbacks, and Declan Rice’s revealed mortality, jolted me out of a blissful, fantastical dream in which the Gunners were unassailable shoo-ins for the Premier League
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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