Satire
Spare us easy satire
Satire is supposed to be the unsayable, not virtue-signalling two-bit doggerel
Latex memories
Spitting Image (BritBox)
What Spitting Image did to British politics
As Spitting Image returns to our screens, its original impact has not been forgotten
Don’t worry, novelists are still envious and bitter
Unlike Douglas Murray, John Self thinks the satirical novel isn’t dead
Satire needs to find new targets
There are still plenty of institutions worth mocking
The fascism of POG-shaming
Mussolini may have had his flaws, but at least he didn’t diet
Of men and birds
John Self reviews Enter The Aardvark by Jessica Anthony
Why vaccines are deeply racist
Already, the virus has been renamed “Covid-19” in a flagrant attempt at dehumanisation
The real pandemic
The last thing we need is a future generation who can think for themselves
The implied fascist
Roland Elliott Brown reviews How to be a Fascist by Michela Murgia
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
