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From the Man Cave XXXV 

There was a very funny message on X at the weekend from some wag calling himself ‘Napoleon’ reporting that he had ‘Just been out for a walk. I didn’t hydrate or put sunscreen on, so I’m dead now.’ Global warming has reached Hull again, and here in the Man Cave it is like an oven. I have reset my air-conditioning unit from […]

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From the Man Cave XXXIV 

The natural order is restored, and I am back in the man cave after a brief trip to Italy. My invitation to meet Giorgia Meloni for an Aperol Spritz must have got lost in the post somewhere, sadly. Or maybe I am just too left-wing for her. Either way, the clean-up of Italy continues, as I have reported

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From the Caveman I 

Those of you who, kindly, follow (and increasingly comment on) my ‘From the man cave’ columns have not misread. The title really reads ‘From the caveman’. I am working in Italy this week and I thought I would be a clever dickie and title my column ‘From the man cave’ in Italian. Turns out, using Google Translate from

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From the man cave XXXIII 

As if President Donald J Trump did not have enough problems, what with the recent assassination attempt, the war with Iran and a trophy wife who seems to be developing a mind of her own, now he must entertain His Royal Dullness the Grand Mufti of Highgrove for a few days. In response to an earlier quip by The Donald that, without

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From the Man Cave XXXII 

The man cave was empty for a while recently, but is now back in action. Not only is the weather improving and the man cave warming up, but the saga of my abdominal hernia, six months on, is over (TNC passim) six months since it first popped out. I had the op last week at the local private hospital

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Hull’s Climate Catastrophe 

Kingston Upon Hull is a city that most people, even those living in Yorkshire – where Hull is located – have never visited and which a great many people who have, wish they had not. If many of the residents of Hull had two beans to rub together, most of them would catch the next train out of town and never return. I am,

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Robot coffee machine

At War With the Machines

Those who know me, or have read my column for a while now, might be under the impression that I’m a bit of a whinger. They’re right, of course, but on occasion the whinging is justified. Just as the proof of the pudding is in the eating, the truth of any article is in the

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Kid praying in a mosque

I Hate Islam

I hate Islam. I detest it. I despise it. I loathe it. I abhor it. I’m really not very keen on it. It is a religion invented by an illiterate seventh-century goat-herder who married a six-year-old girl. Along with the ideas of Karl Marx, Islam is the worst set of ideas ever to be vomited

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