Witnessing the live birth of gangland
From Saturday's Daily Telegraph It’s difficult to write the words “live births to non-UK women” without sounding like a member of the English Defence League, and God knows what would happen if anyone...
View ArticleWhen exactly did free speech die in this country?
Why has this country become so intolerant of civilised, grown-up debate? Voltaire’s classic dictum that you may disagree with what someone says but defend to the death his right to say it has withered...
View ArticleAre black children really turning 'white'?
I’m sitting with a friend I haven’t seen in a while. He’s black, parents from Guyana, in his forties, married to a white woman, and doesn’t have a single black revolutionary bone in his body. "You...
View ArticleLefties get very upset by the idea of a 'broken society'. They'd rather not...
I was utterly baffled by Peter Stanford’s article in the Telegraph yesterday on David Cameron’s "cry" over coasting schools. Even the term makes me shudder – cry? All Cameron was doing was pointing out...
View ArticleWhy I am so rude to Warmists
Sharing a car back from the BBC Big Question debate in Cardiff on Sunday I had a tremendous bust-up with one of my fellow panellists which I think many of you would have enjoyed hugely. (Our driver...
View ArticleFriendships should be insured – so that when they break, the company sends...
From the Sunday Telegraph. My new big idea: friendships should come with guarantees, so that when you break them, the insurance company sends you a replacement. After all, that’s what happens when your...
View ArticleDavid Starkey on Question Time: a bored, rude example of punditry gone mad
Somewhere under three metres of rain in the middle of Somerset is a retirement home for pundits. They sit there all day in their armchairs shouting the odds at the TV (whether it's switched on or not),...
View ArticleNationalism doesn't threaten peace, nor does the EU preserve it
Eurosceptics, says the German Foreign Minister, are a threat to peace in Europe. Frank-Walter Steinmeier keeps telling anyone who'll listen that, without political integration, Europe will revert to...
View ArticleWhy women rape victims shouldn't need anonymity
Poor, much misunderstood David Starkey. Two days after his Question Time comments on the William Roache rape trial, an old acquaintance emailed me Tim Stanley's post, complaining that Dr Stanley had...
View ArticleBeware the cult of the TV historian: they can't predict the future
From Saturday's Daily Telegraph. It is every historian’s fantasy. You spend your life writing about the religious politics of the Onion Wars in 16th-century Syldavia; isolated in an ivory tower but...
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