Melissa Kite

Melissa Kite

Melissa Kite is contributing editor of The Spectator magazine where she writes a weekly column called Real Life. She is the author of several books including The Art of Not having it All, and a novel, The Girl Who Couldn’t Stop Arguing. She started her career as a reporter for the Press Association in Belfast, and has worked as political correspondent for The London Times and deputy political editor of the Sunday Telegraph. She recently moved from England to live in west Cork, Ireland with her partner and their four horses.

Vax Facts

During the big health scare of the mid-1800s, vaccination became compulsory in Britain and parts of America, and, believe it or not, vaccine certificates were required for travel. The health scare then was smallpox, and vaccination in those days meant cutting incisions into the arm with a knife ...

New Tools for Fools

What is Euvabeco? Chances are you don’t know because it is one of those acronyms used by the powers that rule us in draconian style since Covid and who are hardly at all subjected to scrutiny or asked what they mean by such things. Euvabeco, or EUVABECO, because sometimes the logo is capped, ...

Just the Vax, Please

At a friend’s house party I found myself sitting next to an anti-vaxxer with a thriving social media profile who became drunk and started boasting. “I’m making six grand a month out of this,” he said, referring to the earnings of his anti-vaccine stance. Of course, £6,000 a month is a ...

Taking a Jab at ‘Vaxxers’

AstraZeneca was “crowned” Britain’s first £200bn firm this week, according to fawning media reports as they announced record profits following their Covid vaccine and, coincidentally, a push into cancer cures presented as an astute gamble. “Drug maker has benefited from its bet on ...

Riot Act

The riots in Britain have made one thing clear: The political classes do not know what poor people look like. Keir Starmer has been like a broken record describing everyone on the streets as “a member” of “The Far Right,” with “The Far Right” meaning a shadowy, highly organized group ...

Concern Over Concern

When three young children were stabbed on the streets of Dublin last November, the authorities very quickly managed to focus the narrative away from the attacker. Horror gave way to condemnation of the reaction to the horror. A 5-year-old girl was left with life-changing injuries and remains in ...

Get With the Program

Alcoholics Anonymous is no longer a fellowship of men and women, as used to be reassuringly stated at the start of every meeting. It’s now a “fellowship of people,” because AA is embracing gender ideology, attempting to increase ethnic membership, and is bringing in a new safeguarding policy ...


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