One’s nose was to the grindstone last week catching up on such a terrific backlog of work that, by the end of the week, the season of goodwill had faded into the mists of time. Two days were spent in Hatfield. Most of the time was spent driving there. But I spent a day with […]
The Silly Season Continues Read More »
Few cases encapsulate the rot at the heart of Britain quite like that of Shamima Begum. On the surface, she should have been a textbook illustration of the virtues of multiculturalism: a second-generation Bangladeshi, raised in the Muslim enclave of Tower Hamlets in East London. In reality, she embodies everything Britain has gotten wrong since
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You already know many of the Emperor Caligula’s greatest hits. There was making his horse Consul (he didn’t, but it was thought he might). There was the incest with his sisters (no real evidence for this and it was far from unknown in the ancient world – Cleopatra’s parents were almost certainly closely related, possibly
Britain has been experiencing a cost-of-living crisis since Brexit in 2020. Today, the situation is no different, with persistent inflation, low growth, and debt now revealing signs of economic stagnation. The UK’s growth in GDP per capita (often used as a proxy indicator of a country’s standard of living) continues to lag behind that of
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As Keir Starmer slithers back into the saddle of his limp lacklustre leadership, there has been a deluge of messages from No.10. The sort of messages that presumably are supposed to instil a warm glow in the populace and inspire it to heave to and look forward to a sunnier easier future. What the circling
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We’ve barely had time to recover from our Christmas hangovers or to start breaking our New Year resolutions, and the silly season has started. Less than a week into 2026 and our lords, masters, foreign countries and corporations have already given us a taste of what is to come for the rest of the year.
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In the last half century or so, we Brits have been asked to tolerate a lot. Every decade we are asked to tolerate a bit more. What is our limit? Is there one? Do we just go on into infinity tolerating more and more? Sixty-odd years ago, following legislation to legalise homosexuality, the Establishment tentatively
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As we reach the end of another lap around the sun, we approach the conclusion of another year in which the internet has excelled itself in its main current purpose – purveying filth, fraud and fake news to the masses. Every so often, however, sifting through the merde, one gets a quick glimpse of its
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They tried to terrify us with Covid-19 and, sad to report, it largely worked. Most of the population cowered under the cosh of the public health experts, stayed indoors, socially distanced, wore masks and got vaccinated. Some people remain convinced that Covid-19 was an existential threat and that, had it not been for the one-way
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As 2025 draws to a close, the arrival of Alaa Abd el-Fattah in the United Kingdom serves as a stark reminder of a deeper malaise afflicting our national institutions. Released from Egyptian custody and granted passage to Britain through concerted diplomatic efforts by the Labour government, el-Fattah was heralded by Sir Keir Starmer as a
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