Few causes could get the heads of the BBC, Channel 4, the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Guardian and Mirror to co-sign a letter to the government. What unites these disparate interests are a dislike of Rupert Murdoch and a disapprobation of “The Dirty Digger's” plans to take full control ...
The guests were singing maudlin folksongs trying to drown out the TV's noxious noises. Live Aid had been going on apparently forever and would go on for weary hours more, and even at a whiskey-sodden wedding reception it seemed no one would be allowed to hide from the hurricane of ...
The UK Treasury is considering replacing the copper in some coins with nickel steel as an economic measure. The scheme has been met with protests, but not from monometallists " rather in the impressive shape of the Automatic Vending Machine Association. The Association worries it will cost ...
On August 29, the London think-tank Demos released a report called The Power of Unreason, which is "the first ever analysis of conspiracy theories in the ideology and propaganda of fifty extremist groups." These theories, say the authors, create and perpetuate demonologies, delegitimize ...
Tories perturbed by the party's lackluster election and shacking up with the Ludicrous Democrats were mollified by the inclusion in the Cabinet of William Hague as Foreign Secretary. Since those delicious Brown-defenestrating days, the straight-talking Yorkshire darling of the grassroots has been ...
As the cooling winds of austerity move in across superheated Britain, one gallant group is arming for war. The large trade unions, headed up by the so-called "Awkward Squad" of leftist leaders, are on the move. It is time, the Awkward ones believe, for another Hunger March, another ...
An anxious nation awaits. Yes, it's Labour leadership contest time—in which all the thoroughly untarnished candidates from this highly responsible party vie to inherit the glorious mantle let fall by that great statesman and patriot, “Cincinnatus” Gordon Brown. There are four ...
Islamophobia—the tendentious term trips off the tongue full of clinical condescension. The word implies that the “phobe” has a neurological problem, and that the accuser is a doctor. Islamophobia, it is suggested, is akin to those other irrational fears that we all carry within ...
If there is one thing the ultra-Left likes better than stories about fascism, it is stories about police brutality. The very best modern morality tales conjoin fascism and the fuzz/filth/flocs in an axis of awfulness, against which all other sins fade into insignificance. A classic of this ...
It returned briefly, like a bad memory—a choking cloud, smelling slightly of sulphur, bringing life to a standstill, leaving a thin film of dirt on everything, making everyone feel faintly defiled. It was a Brown miasma, the belchings of an unquiet country. It was Groundhog Day for Gordon's ...
