Growing up as I did, in post–UDI Rhodesia, I was exposed early to the deceptive habits of wily British politicians. My adolescent naivete notwithstanding, I was puzzled and distressed by the fact that none of them seemed to have any interest in knowing the true situation on the ground, let alone allowing the facts to influence their judgment. For them it was quite simple, and it suited their audience and their constituents; Ian Smith was an unrepentant racist obsessed with power to maintain white privilege, and Robert Mugabe was a fearless freedom fighter risking his all for the sake of ...
Redistribution of wealth is in full swing in the U.K. under Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, but a lesser-known project is the redistribution of organs. I don’t mean church organs. I mean body ...
If you saw a large group of men running toward you, dressed in tight Lycra bearing the words “QUEER RUNNING CLUB,” what would you do? Personally, I’d start running too—right in the opposite ...
Do charities for older people help older people, or do they target older people for donations, and for other political reasons? Since my mother was diagnosed with dementia, my ...
The National Health Service is worshipped by the Brits, not least those who don’t have to queue up to use it. But when you subject it to scrutiny, it soon reveals itself to be ...
Children can sometimes be very cruel—but also very inventive. When I was a schoolboy myself during the 1990s, there was a performatively “suicidal” girl who constantly used ...
A £100 million bat protection tunnel being built in the U.K. might be utterly pointless, except that it brings a wonderful new phrase into the English language: bat shed ...
Highly surprisingly for a far-left regime, the current U.K. Labour Party Government has just achieved the key stereotypical right-wing aim of bringing back hanging. But only for ...
When is a terrorist killer actually a terrorist who has just happened also to kill? When the authorities say so, obviously. The man charged with stabbing to death three young ...
“White riot—I wanna riot—white riot—a riot of my own!” So sang U.K. punk rockers the Clash in their 1977 debut single, “White Riot.” Well, now Britain has numerous ...
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 ...
I must admit to slightly mixed feelings about Argentina’s current libertarian President Javier Milei. On the one hand, he is a mentally disturbed chainsaw-wielding nutcase who ...
If anyone should wonder why traditional parties have lost their hold in some European countries, they could do worse than read David Fraser’s short book Britain, Tough on ...
Walking through my local park one sunny evening recently, I was confronted by the surprisingly amusing sight of an apparent attempted child-grooming incident. A tall, ...
Walking around my rapidly crumbling hometown, I have recently begun noticing a series of stickers displayed prominently upon lampposts, walls, and bus stops, depicting a large ...
The problem with British history, said Salman Rushdie, is that so much of it happened abroad. By way of revision, we might say that the problem with British politics today is that ...
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