For many years the late Michael Wharton wrote a column for The Daily Telegraph using the pseudonym Peter Simple. He created therein a Swiftian world populated by caricatured familiars. He was writing at a time when satire was possible, well before Starmer’s forced merger between the normal and the grotesque. One such familiar is Mrs […]
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I was only half listening to the news at the end of the week, and over the weekend, preoccupied as I was with a five-hour drive to Edinburgh. I’d have followed it closely on the radio in the car but as soon as I put it on Mrs Watson, who likes to drive or be
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Let me declare an interest from the outset: I am sad to see Angela Rayner depart the political battlefield. I like the fact that she is a real person. I admire the bounce and joie de vivre that she exudes. And quite honestly, I found the comedic prospect of her replacing Keir Starmer and answering
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I recently spent some happy hours with Noel Edmonds. That he was in New Zealand and I was in the London ‘burbs was perhaps for the best because, beloved childhood figure though he was, his beliefs are most politely described as unconventional batshit. I find crystal beds and healing energy every bit as interesting as
No one enjoys a healthy pisstake more than I. And there’s certainly no more inveterate snob than the one I glimpse increasingly despairingly in the bathroom mirror every morning. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner (‘Ange’ to the TNC faithful), is a regular feature of these pages, in what I hope is somewhat harsh – but
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Despite recent by-election successes and a healthy lead in the opinion polls, many die-hard Nigel Farage / Reform UK supporters have lost heart of late. The reason is simple: Farage’s Achilles’ heel of Islam, and his blanket refusal to promise mass deportations. The two, naturally, are inextricably linked. The UK Muslim population is not only
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Ofcom – the regulator for communication services – has unveiled new plans to enforce stricter restrictions and new safety measures, in a bid to prevent children accessing inappropriate and harmful content online. The measures have been introduced as part of the Online Safety Act, which means social media and online companies are now legally responsible
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Despite consistently riding high in the opinion polls, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is beset by two major challenges which could scupper victory come the next general election. Firstly, there is Farage’s obvious inability to share the limelight – as witnessed by historic high-profile fallouts with colleagues all the way back to the days of UKIP,
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The Labour Government has announced that the voting age will be lowered to 16 across the UK for the next General Election, a change pledged in the party’s manifesto last year. With Labour languishing in the polls behind Reform, and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer facing dire approval ratings and growing opposition in his own
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It takes a lot for me to defend Keir Starmer. The phrase ‘wouldn’t piss on him if he were on fire’ automatically springs to mind, the minute our Pillsbury Dullboy of a Prime Minster waddles into the conversation. However, the accusation that Labour’s votes at 16 are a crude attempt to “rig the political system”
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