LAST Monday Boris Johnson presented his roadmap, courtesy of the Sunday drivers at Sage, which charts the slowest imaginable route out of lockdown. Nonetheless,...
NO television programme has done more to cultivate coronavirus catastrophism than ITV’s Good Morning Britain. Hats off, therefore, to Dominique Samuels, who on Tuesday challenged...
I SHOULD have known that watching the BBC News Channel would spoil a relaxing Sunday evening. My blood pressure rose when, instead of Monday’s newspapers being previewed...
SINCE Shami Chakrabarti was removed as shadow attorney-general last April, the public has largely been spared her pietistic pronouncements. Alas, the monotonous moraliser resurfaced...
BBC Radio 4 has just broadcast a most unusual edition of Any Questions? The panel of four Westminster MPs actually included one Honourable Member who throughout...
ON Wednesday a committee of MPs quizzed Sir Patrick Vallance and Professor Chris Whitty during an inquiry titled Coronavirus: lessons learnt. One thing these arch-alarmists certainly...
RELEASED in 1992, 10cc’s ‘comeback’ album Meanwhile was a commercial flop, as was the single taken from it, Welcome To Paradise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PiaizLLEAM
Known only to diehard fans, it was...
On Wednesday, the Telegraph ran the foreboding front-page headline ‘Second wave forecast to be more deadly than first’.
https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1321209877767868423
TCW’s Will Jones scrutinised the statistics behind this menacing...
The Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST) is a collective of 25 mainly independent schools throughout England and Wales, which describes itself as a ‘unique...
AFTER the SNP’s Margaret Ferrier had been shamed for travelling to and from Westminster while infected with coronavirus, it was revealed that she had...
ALTHOUGH Claire Fox is no longer a mouthpiece for the Revolutionary Communist Party, she is still far from being a social conservative. Nonetheless, throughout...
THE latest edition of BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions? included this puzzler from Paul in Slough: ‘What does the panel understand to be the objective of...
IF ONLY the University of Edinburgh had established its Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (EDIC) 300 years ago, the undergraduate David Hume might have...