TODAY is Ash Wednesday, which marks the first day of Lent. It is traditionally observed with fasting or abstinence from meat, and many Christians attend services at which their foreheads are marked with ash as a sign of grief, both in the sense of mourning and in expressing sorrow for sins. Lent, Holy Week and […]
AT the beginning of 1968, teatime television was turned on its head by a comedy phenomenon which had hordes of schoolchildren, myself included, racing home desperate not to miss a second of it. This was Do Not Adjust Your Set, an anarchic combination of sketches and music which was a direct antecedent of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. […]
WHEN a story is not in the mainstream press, you can bet the house that it tells against a fragile consensus, and it will be reported only if it changes to supporting that consensus. Such a trial was the long-postponed legal brawl between plaintiff Professor Michael Mann and two non-academic defendants, Mark Steyn and Rand […]
INSPIRATIONAL, stupendous and brilliant were just three of the many positive expressions from prospective pupils’ parents who attended a recent evening presentation from the Headmaster in Founder’s Hall. The theme was ‘The BoJo Academy – now and for ever’. The Headmaster gave an overview of the Academy’s strengths, and more pertinently why, in these difficult […]
TO THE dismay of climate sceptics the world over, the long-awaited defamation lawsuit between climate scientist Michael Mann and conservative writer Mark Steyn ended last week with the jury in Washington DC finding against Steyn and co-defendant Rand Simberg and awarding more than $1million to Mann. It was a case that had enormous ramifications. As Chris Morrison […]
AS TCW has reported, Wildlife and Countryside Link, a charity umbrella group whose members include the RSPCA, Rewilding Britain, WWF and the National Trust, have claimed that the British countryside is a ‘racist and colonial’ white space where people of colour are often framed as ‘out of place’. TCW has seen a draft version of proposed demands to […]
MANY major arteries connecting Europe have been obstructed or brought to a standstill in recent days by a wave of protests by farmers against what they claim are overly burdensome environmental targets and unsustainable levels of bureaucracy associated with EU and national farming regulations. The warning shots of this showdown between policymakers and farmers were […]
A rather short column this week, I’m afraid. ROAMING round YouTube, I came across this extraordinary clip. These are some of the 1,100 Indian Runner ducks employed by the Vergenoegd Löw Vineyard in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Every day they are let out to patrol the vines and feast on the snails and pests, reducing the need for pesticides […]
EVERY now and again an academic report lands that hits the nail on the head*. Britain’s countryside is a ‘racist, colonial’ white space where people of colour are often framed as ‘out of place’, the Daily Mail ran in its pages on Thursday. The Telegraph and other publications ran the same. These days it’s tricky passing a hedgerow without […]
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