There is a pleasing synchronicity that Oxford announced its word of the year is “rage-bait”. After a weekend of splenetic fury over the Chancellor’s statements in the run-up to the Budget, which have been revealed to be, if not lies exactly, then certainly economical with the actualité. One might expect her opponents at the Daily […]
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The Guardian reported last week that the British military is preparing for operations in Ukraine. While this was easy to treat as mere sabre-rattling, Keir Starmer’s declaration reaffirming the UK’s unwavering support for Ukraine is not just leftover Labour-campaign rhetoric. Contrary to prevailing theories on international relations, conflict is not a failure of diplomacy for the
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For something which knows so much about me, Facebook seems to know very little about me. It knows where I went to university, but deluges me with posts from the alumni associations of different institutions, some of which I would not have deigned to go to, some of which did not deign to allow me
I try to keep out of the “who’s your favourite cannibal?” debate because it always gets too political. If you say Anthony Hopkins then some lefty grievance fetishist will start screaming in Glaswegian something which sounds a bit like “Brian Cox”. Dahmer used to be a safe choice but he was eating people before transexuals
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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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