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Plug in Your Shredder: There’s a Lineker Memoir on the Way

(Photograph: Liton Ali, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) In a brilliantly written piece for spiked, titled ‘Gary Lineker: patron saint of the over-privileged’, the inestimable Julie Burchill skewers His Holiness for his shameless self-promotion and utter lack of self-awareness. When it comes to virtue-signalling, as described previously in these pages, Gary Lineker really is […]

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The Grim Reaper Has a Name and It’s ‘Eris’

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Now I have your attention I am going to tell you something that is nothing to worry about, we’ve been here before; we survived the last time and, essentially, it is a ‘non-story.’ But you’re going to hear about it anyway. There is a new Covid-19 variant circulating in the USA, and it has reached

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The Tavistock Clinic Cluster Bomb

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I had never heard of cluster bombs until I served in the First Gulf War. These were used very effectively to paralyse the Iraqi Air Force. The RAF dropped them on Iraqi airfields and, as their pilots and ground crew did not know how many would explode, or when, the strategy was successful. In an

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The Shameless Joys of Fatherhood

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One of my most enduring childhood memories is watching Edith Nesbit’s The Railway Children, masterfully brought to cinematic life by the loving hand of Lionel Jeffries. The film’s denouement brought my 6- or 7-year-old self to tears (and still does), but it was not until recently that I fully understood why. Watching the steam unfurl

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Costa Bomb

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Costa Coffee has become the latest brand to inflict woke ideas on its customers by the use of virtue signalling advertising. An image of an androgynous-looking character in a surfing position wearing long shorts, blue hair and large lips, with scars below each nipple, has been spotted on one of their vans. The image was

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The Chinese Are Spying On Us, But Why?

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It’s a couple of weeks since the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament issued its scathing report ‘China’, where it outlined the ‘whole-of-state’ infiltration of UK institutions by the Middle Kingdom. Every sector: industry; finance; defence; and universities is penetrated. The veracity of such a report is hard to refute. There can be little doubt that the Chinese

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Let’s Take Our Overdrafts Elsewhere

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Jack Watson & Roger Watson Much has been written about the Farage affair and his run in with Coutts Bank. It seems that almost every day there is a new revelation and, if all goes well, the story will run for a few more weeks. On 29th June, Nigel Farage, the broadcaster and former politician

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Andy Pandy: Time To Go Back in the Basket

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If Anjem Choudary is convicted of terror charges, anything other than a life sentence will be risible. It’s high time our government got serious on the issue of radical Islam.

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Rip-off Britain

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Not content with throwing vast amounts of cash at the uncontrolled number of asylum seekers running up the beaches of the southeast coast (nearly £50 a head weekly plus free accommodation and free healthcare)*, we throw £11 billion annually at a variety of hopeless international causes in the shape of the overseas aid budget. It

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Weather Blether

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Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the conditions of the atmosphere for a given location and time. People have been trying to predict the weather since the 19th century. However, meteorology is not completely reliable, and sometimes it is downright wrong. Nevertheless, weather forecasting is more accurate than it used

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