Andrew Devine
Andrew Devine is a published author and won the Orwell Prize in 2010 for his whistle blowing blog: "Winston Smith — Working with the Underclass". Using the aforementioned pen name, he has had work published in the Daily Mail and Guardian. Under his real name, he has had work published in The Conservative Woman, Journal.ie, Quillette, The Irish Post and Areo Magazine.
From terrorism to triumph
Sinn Fein have nothing to offer Ireland but division
One big Anglo family
The other Europeans Irish share the most in common with … are the British
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
