Sacred Cows

BLM’s radical ideas, such as defunding the police, would only make the lives of black communities worse

John Lennon’s kicking against the pricks was mere window-dressing

The NHS is immune to criticism because its deficiencies are seen as departures from its essential goodness

Benjamin Disraeli could change his mind without turning a hair

No journalist has so vituperatively fed the ancestral hatreds and dormant furies of Ireland

Viscount Montgomery: tactless, arrogant and with no instinct for politics

He is revered as the man who freed US slaves. Yet he never intended to do so and it was he who forced a war for the Union

Friedrich von Hayek became “Hayek”, a cardboard cut-out representation.

Tackling Harold Bloom