THERE’S an old saying: It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good. The truth of this has come home forcefully to me recently as, although the past few years have been horrendous thanks to the covid and allied hysteria, there have been some surprising and unlooked-for benefits. Chief of these has been the forming […]
I’m old enough to remember the outcry over Elvis. The appearance of the hip-swivelling singer was for some a harbinger of the downfall of society. We saw the same reaction to the emergence of Beatlemania. I can remember Mary Whitehouse and her opposition to the cultural revolution of the 60s which swept the West. And […]
THE Prayer Book Epistle reading for today, the Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, is vital for a Christian understanding of the God-given role of secular government. The New Testament passage is from the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Christian Church in 1st Century Rome, chapter 13: ‘Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For […]
WHO would fight for the United Kingdom? This isn’t so much a rhetorical question as a practical one, as senior figures in the armed forces wrestle with the fact that we have a comically small military for a nation with world-power pretensions. What is in it for the demographic who traditionally spilled their blood for […]
THE environmentalist George Monbiot, writing in the Guardian, has belatedly entered the conversation regarding the unprecedented farmers’ protests in Germany and Holland against fuel price hikes and other damaging penalties in the name of Net Zero. According to Mr Monbiot, while it appears to be a populist movement, it is in fact being stage-managed by the ‘far right’ and the […]
I NEARLY fell off my chair when I opened my copy of the Times to discover that the University of Aberdeen, one of Scotland’s top institutions for language teaching, is seriously considering taking the axe to modern languages. The rot had set in a long time ago with my own department at Dundee University. The institution had […]
ANOTHER big push to legalise ‘assisted dying’ in the UK has been reinforced by celebrity endorsements, hard cases and the testimonies of serving and former politicians who underwent a change of heart and now see that patients should have ‘choice’ at the end of their lives. It is being driven largely by assisted suicide aficionado Gary […]
IT IS nearly 11 years since I picked up the phone to give Nick Clegg a piece of my mind. The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition had made changes to child benefit which annoyed me, so I decided to have a few words with the Deputy Prime Minister, who did a radio show on LBC at the […]
I HAVE just sat through 47 minutes of a satanic death cult gleefully committing the most unimaginable butchery on innocent men, women and children. All while chanting the name of their prophet. Jittery and excited with spittle in the corners of their demonically possessed and crazed mouths. Their eyes lit up in ecstasy, as if they had […]
RISHI Sunak flew to Ukraine a few days ago to sign an agreement for ‘security co-operation’ and ‘a hundred-year partnership’. This is in a context where the former head of the British Army is warning that our armed forces are so shrunken that we invite a 1930s-style disaster. What is the justification for such a foreign relations development? […]
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