The Prime Minister celebrating Diwali inside No. 10 Downing Street last week brought back fond memories of my own family. My beautiful and only granddaughter of three years old was filmed telling her father about the meaning of Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Light. It was incredibly sweet, and to some extent, it could be […]
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I was recently in Zabreg, the capital of Croatia, with my wife. My idea of a break is sitting in street bars drinking beer, but my wife likes to ‘do things’. She discovered that one of Zagreb’s most famous sons was Nikola Tesla and that there was a museum in his honour. She thought it
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So passes Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum as the saying goes, and indeed—the odd ill-judged Twitter malcontent aside—can anyone find anything genuinely disparaging to say about her late Majesty? If you’ll indulge me, I’d like to begin with my own personal grief on the
It is just one thing after another for the poor Ukrainians. As if they had not suffered enough over the years, having to endure visits from such luminaries as Richard Branson, multiple visits from Boris Johnson and now they have Liz Truss with them. How much more do they have to take? One person even
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I found myself, as the House of Windsor crumbled around our late and recently departed Queen Elizabeth II, increasingly toying with the idea that perhaps republicanism is not such a bad idea after all. As a former member of HM armed forces and a person of conservative values, I have always felt that we should
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In March 2021, writing about army cutbacks, I joked that far from being able to take back the Falklands now we would be unable to take back the Isle of Man. Turns out I was right. The ill-fated aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales, en route to join the US fleet for exercises, broke down
A new word entered the lexicon in the early days of the Covid scandal – ‘Covidiot’. Initially defined as those who endangered the lives of others, the term fast became applied to anyone who questioned the official Covid narrative. Anyone who dared suggest that we may have gone a teensy bit over the top with
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Free speech ain’t what it used to be. Thankfully, the good guys are still entitled to it. Twitter seems to have taken a leaf out of Sadiq Khan’s ‘vibrant diversity’ playbook, deciding that pretty much anything goes – so long as the target of said speech meets with approval. The Ayatollah Khamenei is still up
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I have thus far refrained from comment on last week’s attempted murder of Salman Rushdie. Primarily this was out of respect for Sir Salman, who in the immediate aftermath looked like he might not pull through. Heartened as I am to discover that this is not the case, I also wanted to gauge the extent
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That supreme basket case among economic basket cases, Scotland, may have turned its back on independence but that has not saved it from the ongoing madness of the SNP. People used to go to Scotland annually to the Fringe Festival to have a laugh at the comedians on show there. Now you don’t need to
