THE wheels are falling off at the Ministry of Defence under the inspired leadership of Grant Shapps, the Army wives dealing the latest blow. Thanks to their protests, the plan to change the way Army accommodation is allocated has been shelved. The hapless Secretary of State should have thought twice before messing with them. Neither Mr Shapps nor those […]
NO DOUBT about it, this has been a troubling few weeks for any British friend of Israel. Specifically, it has been deeply upsetting for our Jewish community which has seen so much that attracted their parents and grandparents to this country – safety, rule of law, inviolable Parliamentary democracy, impartial judiciary, policing without fear or […]
AS LAST week’s political machinations drew to a close I reflected upon the events in Parliament, the debacle over the Speaker and, for the first time, the danger of a government and opposition both on the brink of political suicide. We have witnessed, with increasing horror, the direction of travel of the political juggernaut now perched precariously […]
AFTER the almost universal adulatory reviews from TV critics for the ‘gritty’ and ‘harrowing’ hospital drama Breathtaking, about the first six months of the Covid outbreak, plus an admonition from the Evening Standard that it should be made compulsory viewing, comes a refreshing corrective from Daily Mail writer Andrew Pierce. The headline in Saturday’s paper (behind a paywall) said: ‘How […]
A QUARTER of foreigners who arrived here to be care workers are abusing UK visa rules by working illegally in other industries, the outgoing chief inspector of borders and immigration has revealed. The social care visa route was introduced two years ago to help plug chronic labour shortages in the industry. David Neal’s report exposes jaw-dropping details: the Home […]
AS A social commentator I often come across habitual phrases and lazy assumptions. These may be so normalised that nobody challenges them. Yet the impact of such common usage is considerable and deleterious. I want to focus on the inappropriate use of ‘we’ in discussions of politics, history and contemporary culture. For illustration, take this […]
FOR more than a century the BoJo Academy has been a dazzling beacon in a somewhat dull educational firmament. Renowned for its traditional values and timeless style of teaching, it has attracted pupils from both home and abroad. Recently however, there has been a distinct and palpable feeling that the Academy has somehow lost its […]
THE word ‘misinformation’ is bandied about a lot at the moment. Perhaps not surprisingly, considering the technological explosion which enables people across the globe to put in their pennies-worth of information, ideas or opinions in a way which has never been possible before. All this without even having to leave their own home. But are we any […]
Tory MP and former vice chairman Lee Anderson has been suspended for remarks he made about London mayor Sadiq Khan being ‘controlled’ by Islamists. As I wrote in TCW ten days ago, all of us who speak the truth know the consequences of doing so. People distancing themselves, hate campaigns, lies and defamation of character. This is the […]
The writer is in Australia. ONCE upon a time in the West, anxious Greenies tied themselves to trees in the path of bulldozers to prevent the building of a new road, or dam, or anything that might improve the lot of human residents at the expense of nature. By the 1970s, Tasmania’s industrial and residential […]
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