John Bercow
Outside his bailiwick
John Bercow’s podcast is me me me, with a side order of sycophancy
The perils of a speaker unchained
Bercow remains a grim warning about what a politician can still do in the chair, if he puts his mind to it
A vengeful pursuit of political power
Natascha Engel reviews Unspeakable by John Bercow
Who made parliament woke?
Parliamentary authorities are driving the social justice agenda all by themselves
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Our AI overlords will end bigotry
Bring on the machines
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change