What? Trevor Phillips was in the Labour party?
Yesterday it was announced that Trevor Phillips, the former head of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, the body set up under the Labour government to monitor all aspects of equal opportunities...
View ArticleThe Queen’s gardens
Green Park and St. James’s Park, 1833 (Buckingham Palace Gardens shown as The Palace Gardens) This past week it’s been suggested by the writers Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (or Alibi-Brain as she’s known in...
View Article“Lone wolf” terrorists aren’t a myth
MP David Amess, raising awareness of a drug called ‘Cake’ in a spoof documentary in 1997 (clip on YouTube) Last week, the anti-Muslim writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali (notorious for whipping up hatred towards...
View ArticleNew Year Dishonour
The Queen and Captain Sir Tom Moore, following Moore’s award of a knighthood in July 2020 On Saturday morning we awoke to the news that the former prime minister, Tony Blair, and the broadcaster and...
View ArticleKhalid Mahmood should lose the Labour whip
Khalid Mahmood A clip has been circulating on Twitter of the Labour MP Khalid Mahmood addressing a webinar on the recent Prevent programme review by the Tory-aligned think tank Policy Exchange, a...
View ArticleJust how deep-rooted is antisemitism, really?
This week the Guardian published a cartoon (above) by its regular cartoonist Martin Rowson, depicting the resignation of the former BBC director-general Richard Sharp. The cartoon is entitled The...
View ArticleBoris Johnson: goodbye, and good riddance
A Spectator front page from 2005, edited by Boris Johnson, prompted by riots in Europe prompted by police brutality in France Last weekend, the former prime minister Boris Johnson stepped down from...
View ArticleThe ‘elitism’ of mere thought
Bibby Stockholm Last week Matt Goodwin published an article on his Substack (most of it paid-for, which I refuse to do, but you can read the first few paragraphs free) claiming that the controversy...
View ArticleOn the Daniel Jou “virginity test” controversy
The other day I watched a YouTube video by a sister called Aisha Murray, who wears the niqaab, lives in Scotland and has made videos for BBC social media as well as her own YouTube channel, talking...
View ArticleNick Timothy itching for a fight
A protest for Palestine at Liverpool Street station, London, 31st Oct 2023 (source: Ben Smoke, from X/Twitter.) In yesterday’s (Monday’s) Daily Telegraph, there was an opinion piece by Nick Timothy,...
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