Is running a country just too big a job for anyone?
14 November 2009You don’t expect people to take their political inspiration from Jon Bon Jovi. Or at least I don’t. Maybe that’s terribly presumptuous of me. Maybe some people do. ‘Tommy used…
I’m famous at last — thanks to the internet (and this column)
14 November 2009I must be prevented from becoming a Neighbourhood Champion at all costs
14 November 2009I met Combo at dawn. I was standing on the…
14 November 2009New York At an outdoor luncheon party in Sussex celebrating…
7 November 2009Seven hours between flights at Nairobi airport and nowhere to…
7 November 2009New York ‘Why would he run for Parliament?’ screams the…
31 October 2009Mvuu Lodge, Liwonde, Malawi I arrived at the jetty in…
31 October 2009New York One felt the backlash against the BNP–BBC fiasco…
Only a little more than a year ago, Gordon Brown…
There is a great caterwauling among Conservatives, as James Forsyth…
When I was asked to write the foreword for the…
People are missing what is wrong with Sir Thomas Legg’s…
In the early Cameronian period, which now feels prehistoric, the…
For years, I kept Labour’s shortest version of its 1997…
It wouldn’t matter if all the bees died
31 October 2009The world is going to end in 2012, apparently — hopefully just before the start of the Olympic Games. Armageddon may come about as a consequence of those monkeys firing up the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, where they have al-Qa’eda operatives attempting to create black holes which will swallow the earth whole, or reduce it to the size of an extremely dense tennis ball.
Imagine seven billion of us trying to stand on a tennis ball. You just hope personal hygiene standards won’t be sacrificed. Or perhaps it will be giant solar flares frazzling the earth, or a sudden reversal…
Do we really need Hitler to warn us about Aids?
12 September 2009We should seize whatever opportunity we are given to be racist
5 September 2009Cowards colluding with terrorists
29 August 2009Let’s hear it for the python that had the civic good sense to eat Wilbur the cat
15 August 2009Harriet Harman is either thick or criminally disingenuous
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