Sacred Cows
Black Lives Matter are pushing division, not unity
BLM’s radical ideas, such as defunding the police, would only make the lives of black communities worse
Middle-class hero
John Lennon’s kicking against the pricks was mere window-dressing
Empire of conformists
The NHS is immune to criticism because its deficiencies are seen as departures from its essential goodness
Charismatic charlatan
Benjamin Disraeli could change his mind without turning a hair
Fenian fantasist
No journalist has so vituperatively fed the ancestral hatreds and dormant furies of Ireland as Fintan O’Toole
The desert martinet
Viscount Montgomery: tactless, arrogant and with no instinct for politics
Dishonest Abe
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
The prophet who didn’t do people
Friedrich von Hayek became “Hayek”, a cardboard cut-out representation.
Chronicles of an epic egomaniac
Tackling Harold Bloom