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Apparently there’s a new ‘character’ on University Challenge. I wouldn’t know. Last year, I vowed never again to raise my…
Great writers are found with an open mind
I’d been suffering under the misguided illusion that the purpose of mainstream publishers like Penguin Random House was to sell…
Were all those young lives lost at Normandy in vain?
I’m back in New York and digesting the five glorious days spent in Normandy. What was the fighting all about,…
Once you get over its political correctness, Netflix’s Godless is a cracker
Boy came to me the other night in a state of dismay. ‘Dad, I just turned on Match of the…
Everyone’s doing a mea culpa these days — except me
The faux Leonardo that sold for 400 million greenbacks — plus a 50 million fee for Christie’s — was a…
When did fiction become so dangerous?
The assignment of books for review has always been haphazard. Fellow fiction writers can be tempted either to undermine the…
Goodbye London, Reykjavik here I come
I have a message for the London mayor, Sadiq Khan: you and your policies stink! While the fuzz are busy…
Learn to navigate the elite’s new PC-speak – or else
Official PC-speak is ever more incomprehensible
Everything on television is policed by politically correct dwarves
My own fault, I suppose, for turning on the television. Not an action I undertake very regularly these days, because…
Lenin’s New Man has killed free speech
When the Germans smuggled arguably the world’s most evil man into Russia 100 years ago, they did not imagine the…
Don’t like Google’s diversity agenda? You’re fired!
Earlier this week, a technology website published an internal memo written by a Google employee called James Damore criticising the…
Even tea drinking is cultural appropriation now. Oh mea cuppa...
Even drinking tea is ‘cultural appropriation’ now
The newly refurbished National Army Museum is full of inaccuracies and post-colonial guilt
I used to love the National Army Museum in Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, which was crammed with the memorabilia of…
Why I’ve had it with Donald Trump
I feel like an obituary writer, what with Nick Scott, Roger Moore, Alistair Horne — all great buddies — and…
The mad, bad crusade against 'cultural appropriation'
It’s usually best to ignore the indignant fury of the 21st-century young. We’re used to them now, these snowflakes, posing…
For a real Oxbridge education, you now have to go to Durham
‘Should I just have done with it and tell them they’re a bunch of tossers?’ I was on my way…
Crushing, corrupt political correctness just had its Berlin Wall moment
Because we’re all so obsessed with what it was that made the Nazis tick, we tend to overlook the bigger…
Stupidity takes hold of another students’ union
I had never heard the acronym Soas before I started work at the BBC, almost 30 years ago. But as…
Love becomes hate in the twisted world of PC
Gstaad New Year’s Eve was a Rhapsody in Blue, with a clarinet glissando that promised joys to come, and the…
The only way to make a ‘safe space’ for conservatives at universities
To Edinburgh for the book festival, where I am to explain Fools, Frauds and Firebrands to respectable middle-class Scots, who…
Why the alt-right isn’t wrong
I got told off this week by a presenter on BBC radio for using a four-letter word live on air.…
Dear Mary: Every summer I go abroad when what I want is to stay in England
Q. Every summer, just when England is at its loveliest, we have to pack everything up and make a stressy…
It’s not sexist to say ‘throw the baby out with the bathwater’
Bustle, an online newspaper ‘for and by women’, has published ‘six common phrases you didn’t know were sexist (that you’ll…
I came out feeling euphoric and disorientated: Young Vic’s Blue/Orange reviewed
Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall enjoys the dubious status of a modern classic. A black mental-health patient, Christopher, is about to…
Isn’t it puke-inducing being lectured about poverty by millionaire comics?
Going Forward (BBC4, Thursdays) is a BBC comedy about the continuing adventures of Kim Wilde, the fat, cynical but lovable…
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