WHEN the social worker and landlady entered the property in Skegness on January 9, it must have been a terrible sight. There were two bodies, a father and son. The father, Kenneth Battersby, 60, had died of a heart attack and the son, two-year-old Bronson, had slowly starved to death over the Christmas holidays. The […]
‘OH WELL, it was nearly right,’ said my son when he got a maths question wrong. ‘It doesn’t really matter.’ ‘What are you talking about?’ I replied. Nearly right is not right: it is wrong. Do you know what happens if one of the engineers working on space rockets gets something ‘nearly right’? The whole […]
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 […]
OVER the Christmas break I watched a documentary on the late Sinead O’Connor, or Saint Sinead if you live in Ireland. O’Connor is best known for her haunting voice on Nothing Compares 2 U and for ripping up a photo of the then Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live in 1992. She was arguably one of […]
IF you had neighbours who burned through the cash reserves of their family and friends, you would think they were terrible people. If they spent money on pet projects to the neglect of their children, you might even call social services. In fact, if they plunged their children and yet unborn grandchildren into gargantuan levels […]
JUST who is in charge in Rochdale? Not the law-abiding majority and not the police. Did you know that you can rape a girl in the UK, get her pregnant and serve only four years in prison? That’s just one example of what went on in Rochdale. There is another review out on the […]
I AM old enough to remember the days when the older folk, many of them conservative, took pity on the snowflake students who were ‘wasting their time with wimmin studies and gender studies’ in between doing Pilates and dying their hair blue. These students, with their demands for safe spaces, would soon enter the ‘real […]
WELL, you know things are serious when a Times columnist ends his piece quoting Pope Francis. Very serious indeed. Sebastian Payne, director of conservative think tank Onwards, wades into the fertility debate that is certainly gaining steam. In his piece pointing out the usual barriers to couples having children, including housing, the graduate tax, lack of IVF and […]
I UNDERSTAND that conspiracy theories are very popular. A news story is never just a news story any more, it is a ‘false flag’. As such, if you choose to comment on that story, you are being ‘played’ and have ‘fallen for’ the distraction. If you dare have a view on anything that is mainstream, […]
NEXT March, Ireland will hold two referendums on possible changes to the country’s near century-old constitution. It is proposed that a highly significant use of the word ‘woman’ is removed. It is suggested that the constitution’s recognition of the endless unpaid labour that women do should also be removed. In Saturday’s Daily Mail, Laura Perrins argued that […]
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