What I expect from Theresa May’s pointless election
A general election is called and in a matter of hours a neutral and unbiased BBC presenter has likened our…
We are strictly impartial in this exciting Syrian conflict
Let me take this opportunity to join with our Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary in commending President Trump’s swift and…
With ‘Meat-Free Mondays,’ the BBC has created a replica of its London bubble in Manchester
An American woman started a website called ‘People I Want to Punch in the Throat’, in which she listed the…
Here’s what Sarah Sands should do with the Today programme, by Rod Liddle
I wonder what Sarah Sands will do to Radio 4’s Today programme? She is the first editor in more than…
Dylan sounds like a pissed-up karaoke performer on Benylin: Triplicate reviewed
Having seen Bob Dylan play live a few years ago, I’m pretty sure he is not the first person I…
Is Nicola Sturgeon wearing titanium leg extensions?
The thing that got me about the photo-graph which prompted the Daily Mail’s harmless but now infamous headline ‘Never mind…
What shocks me about the BBC: occasionally it isn’t biased
There’s one thing that bothers me a lot about the letter sent by ‘more than 70’ MPs to the director-general…
Europe’s elite rightly feel extinction breathing down their necks
Allahu Akbar! Greetings from Samsun, where Turkish protestors — their eyeballs spinning in orgasmic Islamic rage — tried to set…
What I did on International Women’s Day
It was International Women’s Day on Wednesday of this last week. The Guardian had enjoined its readers to send in…
I used to love the working-class nihilism of Sleaford Mods – no longer
It’s all beginning to wear very thin indeed. Ten years ago this already addled Nottinghamshire duo captured the attention with…
A field guide to our doomed liberal elite
The latest and perhaps most damaging accusation to be levelled at Donald Trump is that he likes his steaks well-done…
Pity the satanic abuse police – they have to be 120 per cent gullible
I got lost in the forest near my house while walking the dog the other week. The path I was…
At least David Beckham has exposed the honours system for the sham it really is
How will we remember him, do you suppose? If you’re a committed football fan, possibly for that exquisite chip from…
Protest and petition all you like. I won't bother listening
I think on balance I would prefer people to demonstrate their opposition to political developments — Brexit, the forthcoming state…
I’m starting to think that Brexit will kill Ukip
Perversity is a much undervalued British trait, much more redolent of our real psyche than queuing, drinking tea or being…
Stupidity takes hold of another students’ union
I had never heard the acronym Soas before I started work at the BBC, almost 30 years ago. But as…
The sound of very earnest millennials making music: The xx’s I See you reviewed
The xx is a trio of Londoners whose eponymous first album, released in 2009, has defined the way pop music…
The lies we tell ourselves about the NHS
The language of the left is a truly transformative grammar, so I suppose Noam Chomsky would heartily approve. There are…
Ms Anne Maple of Lewisham — my new poster girl for free speech
Now is the time of year to take down the Christmas decorations from your front window and put up, in…
I should never have been ashamed to love Status Quo
I bought a record in a second-hand shop in the summer of 1981. A double album. I made sure nobody…
It’s not just Kate Bush. Big parts of rock ’n’ roll are quietly right-wing
They will be sitting there right now, listening tearfully to the song for one last time on their dinky little…
The sexy new face of cigarette packaging
Something for which to thank the government, at last. It is much, much more fun buying cigarettes these days. It…
The Spectator has gone soft – prisons should be much nastier places
Now that post-Marxian vacuous liberalism is over, it is surely about time that we revived the vigorous writings of Thomas…
Donald Trump represents the new normal – on both sides of the Atlantic
Trump’s victory is the latest manifestation of an enormous paradigm shift
Why Trump will be much, much better for Britain than Clinton
The deplorables are rather wonderful people, aren’t they? Both here and in the United States. The people’s revolution continues apace,…
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