Columns

Diego Maradona was not a victim

We have no sense of the tragic, only of victimhood, says Theodore Dalrymple

Power to the pigs and les keufs

France is competing with the UK to be every bit as draconian and liberty-infringing

Unproductive investment

Rishi Sunak boasts a hugerise in public spending. That must mean big tax increases

Queer as a Chocolate Orange

Dominic Green takes us through the history of the word “Queer”

It’s all a conspiracy

It’s not fair that Remain lost or that Trump won, once. These things are unconscionable and therefore diabolical

Cheryl Partington

Media Don

“Meme”

From a German zoologist to internet burns, Dominic Green charts the history of the word meme

NHS propaganda

No rainbow-painting child could possibly understand the relative performance, good or bad, of the NHS

The danger of rewriting history

There is a concerted attempt to reconstruct what children are taught about their history

Sandy Devereux

Smallscreen scriptwriter