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So They Smashed that Old Man of Whitehaven

Hot on the heels of the Theatre Royal in Stratford promoting a Black Out evening, a performance of the play Tambo and Bones which they...

It's Not All About the Money

The results of the recent Led by Donkeys undercover operation do not make for edifying viewing. The videos in which Members of Parliament...

The Phony Wars

Remember you read it here first. As it turns out, the ubiquitous Lee Anderson M.P. is a scion of ancient nobility, the youngest son of...

Freedom and Power

Sane people want freedom; mad people want power. The most intractable problem which now faces humanity is how to wrest power from the...

Try Not to be a Hunt this Christmas

If you enjoy irony, here’s a Christmas present. After almost three years of brutal, pointless lockdowns, the Chinese Communist Party is...

Being Told What To Do

Maurice Snelling is a man who has survived seventy-two summers and several heart attacks, only to be cast into gaol in 2022 for the...

For the Term of His Unnatural Life

There was a moment last week when I almost warmed to Rishi Sunak. He was receiving the sycophantic congratulations of various toadies on...

How the Sausage is Made

Sometimes, when you watch films that have been uploaded online to sites such as YouTube, the commercial breaks from twenty, thirty, or...

Unfair Cops

Having been in China for almost a month, this is the worst thing I have seen so far. A man who was protesting peacefully in the street...

In the Belly of the Beast

I was in China when the coronavirus pandemic started, though no one bothered to mention it at the time. On 15 January 2020, I flew from...

Mind Your Language

Last year, Jimmy Carr told a joke about the Holocaust that is now upsetting some people who feel, apparently, that offended virtue is a...

And Dying Thus Around Us Every Day

Sir Robert Peel, father of British policing and architect of the Conservative Party, has two compelling reasons to be spinning in his...

A Matter of Instinct

Character is more important than brains. The first time I heard this assertion, it was uttered with exaggerated disdain by an Oxford...

A Gray Area

An interesting and dispiriting feature of the political crisis that now approaches its second birthday has been the remarkable stupidity...

The Two Faces of Janus

The opening month of the year is a good time to consider the god of doors, after whom it was named. Janus presides over beginnings and...

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Young people, you will be shocked to hear, have been rebelling against authority, for what may be the first time in recorded history. The...

The Truth of Masks

Few but the most fanatical Covid enthusiasts now bother to pretend that there is any significant medical benefit to be derived from...

The Ogre

The state of the nation as 2021 draws to a close depends very much on whether you happen to be considering history or geography. In...

Unparliamentary Language

Angela Rayner walked into a bar at the Labour Party Conference and confidently announced: “All Tories are scum.” A group in the corner...

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