I HATE to dredge up one of the oldest clichés in the book, but this is truly deckchairs and Titanic. ‘This’ being the energy delivery sermon delivered by Rishi Sunak in the pages of the Daily Telegraph on Monday under the heading: ‘Boosting gas capacity is the insurance policy Britain needs while we deliver net zero.’ Although everyone […]
DURING the Blair years, the journalist Richard Littlejohn brilliantly riffed on the Del Amitri song Nothing Ever Happens to describe the political era of weightless vapidity we then appeared to be living in. (Of course, behind all the spin and deflection, the revolt of the elites first identified by Christopher Lasch was gathering pace, but it wasn’t widely […]
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 […]
IT WAS Christmas Day at the Sunaks’ Their Yorkshire mansion was full of good cheer They were California dreamin’ They’d be Stateside in less than a year. When the PM unwrapped his presents His delight could not be surpassed He got a wallet to keep his Green Card in And Bermuda shorts styled at […]
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