Columns

The meek inherit nothing

Islamism is increasingly held not to be a deviant from Islam, but an orthodox aim of the “religion of peace”

No one guilty at the BBC

No one in BBC management ever pays a price for the BBC’s mistakes.They just happen, like the weather

Pointless protest

Spare us the snooty superiority of “real” writers affronted by celebrity novels

Piers and the gospel of gammon

The last thing I need is some repugnant gammon scumbag like Morgan polluting the world with his moronic boomer ideas

How not to earn a living

More and more books are published but life is hard for the aspiring writer

Public spending and public health

Theodore Dalrymple says the connection between expenditure and result is extremely tenuous

Shop these shoppers!

Saintly Sainsburys vs Waitrose’s white supremacists

Silk but no silken tongue

Sometimes the top legal officers need to give the government advice it doesn’t want to hear

Time’s up for licence fee

The BBC must face reality over its future funding

Condemned to a life sentence

We treat prisoners of war better than care home residents