Political Correctness
Newly-minted mission statements
The Brexit coin takes bogus aspiration as part-ambition, part-accomplishment
Danger: semantic engineers at work
The institutionalisation of gender-neutral language is designed to change how we think, feel and act
Slang vs Woke: the final judgment
Everyone wants what should be. But there is no “should be”. There is only what is.
William Brown turns one hundred
“I’ll thcream and thcream and thcream until I’m thick”
Rabble-rouser in chief
Our increasingly polarised and angry age wants not entertainment, but preachers
On the side of Engels
Suffocated by a neurotic with-us-or-against-us mindset, the huddled masses of today’s Left brook no dissent
Lost for words
Now the Ministry of Defence agrees that not all women are female
When comedy goes right, it’s very wrong
The Goes Wrong Show expertly mines hilarity through disaster
Boris Bunter
Is our Prime Minister the Fat Owl of the Government?
The gift and curse of language
It separates us from the animals – and the angels
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
