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Oxford University

Clever But Unwise

The Columnists’ Paradox is that the more one writes, the less one need be read. We all have our relatively fixed biases and a reasonably finite store of stories and references, and it does not take too long (longer than my own writing “career” to date though, obviously…) for those to become sufficiently well-known to

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Sadiq Khan

You Khant be Serious?!

Like most things, the New Years’ Honours list ain’t what it used to be; degraded to the point of ridicule, where cronyism and Z-list ineptitude feature in equal measure. While I stop just short of Peter Hitchens on the notion that such awards should be reserved exclusively for the military (substantial, selfless contributions to society should,

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Dawn Butler

Racism: The Left’s Bread and Butter

(Photograph: Richard Townshend, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) One of the most compelling accounts of the decline of the Western world is its tolerance for anti-Western grievance-mongers; those for whom the possession of non-white skin somehow entitles them to market their decorated, well-heeled existences and accession to high office as ‘oppression.’ The only

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Downing Street

Lying Labour

Rachel Reeves, the first female Chancellor in history, was greeted with much fanfare amongst the wokerati as she announced her Autumn Budget was for “hardworking families up and down the country who have been crying out for change” (honestly, you’d think women had never been in control of the purse strings before). But that was

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