(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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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
Washington DC was buzzing on Saturday 2 November with the news that the UK had appointed its first black woman as leader of a major political party. And, if you believe that let me play you at poker. Not only did I not hear a word about Kemi Badenoch’s victory, I did not (and never
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When I was an acne-encrusted and angst-driven teenager in the eighties, one of the risqué things to do was to watch the comedy The Young Ones. For those too young to know of this series, it concerned the lives of four university students renting a house together. Each was a student stereotype: Vyvyan the anarchic
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With the possible exception of the Great Fire of London, Britain has never needed a Thatcher more than it does now. Half a century on from the misery of the 1970’s, the nation is on her knees again (and I’m putting it politely). We may no longer be ‘the sick man of Europe’ (at least
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We’ve refrained so far from referring to ‘sausagegate’ in these pages. After all, anyone can make a mistake. Many of us are old enough to remember 1980 when the SAS (Sausage Alert Service) rescued the sausages from the grip of the terrorists during the Iranian Embassy siege. An easy mistake to make Sir Keir. But
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Ennobled by Tony Blair, Lord Waheed Alli was the first ‘openly’ gay member of the House of Lords. He also claims to be an ‘openly gay Muslim’ which not only seems like a contradiction in terms but, if he bumps into the wrong kind of Muslims, also a life-shortening strategy. I guess he doesn’t have
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(Photograph: Laurie Noble, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Twenty-four hours is famously a long time in politics. Presumably then, that makes a couple of months an eternity – particularly in the life of a newly-appointed MP. It was not so long ago after all, that Nigel Farage finally embraced Islamophobia; awarded his ‘I
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Who doesn’t love a good freebie? Taster samples at a local Tesco, free goodie bags after a tough 10km run or even a birthday party, one-month trials on Netflix or Prime (the streaming service, not the drink), Meerkat vouchers for the cinema, or even unlimited food and drinks in a lounge or waiting room—these are
This government needs disabusing of the idea that pensions are a “benefit”; they have been earned by many years of hard work and sometimes hardship. Do members of parliament think, therefore, that their own pensions should be classed as benefits, and thereby subject to harsh cuts like everybody else’s? If not, surely this is highly
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