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Roald Dahl

The Desecration of Dahl

Like most children of the 1980s, I was introduced to the pleasure of reading primarily by Roald Dahl. That books authored by him have sold 300 million copies worldwide and been translated into 63 languages is a testament to the man’s genius: his wit, his creativity, and perhaps most of all, his profound understanding of […]

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The Koran

Backdoor Sharia Law

England has not boasted blasphemy laws since their abolition in 2008. The closest I’ve ever come to encountering them was way back in the 1990’s as a public school sprog, when a classmate decided to adorn his Bible with swastikas in R.E. class, ‘because he was bored’. He received a double-detention for his trouble –

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King Charles III

Happy and glorious

Happy and glorious, that about sums up the mood of the nation since King Charles announced the plans for his—pared down to the bare essentials—coronation. A snip at two hours long and only 7000 guests – so, not much of a jamboree after all. According to the Royal website, the coronation: ‘will reflect the monarch’s

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Prince Harry

A right royal sausage

We are being subjected to almost saturation coverage of someone who is extremely unimportant and who seems terribly upset because that awful truth has finally dawned on him. We have him on the front pages, the inside pages, the reviews pages, the leaders and op-eds, and even on the letter’s pages. I feel it is

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