Owen Bennett
Owen Bennett is a journalist and author of three books including "Following Farage: On The Trail Of The People’s Army" named one of the political books of the year by The Guardian and The Independent, and his biography of Michael Gove described as "explosive" by the Daily Mail.
20 years of The Ricky Gervais Show
Ricky Gervais’s best comedy survives by fans swapping bootlegged recordings
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
