A saint I ain’t. But I have competed for a saint. At one of my childhood schools, the pupils were divided into groups, or houses, named after the saints who wrote the Gospels. There was Mattheus House, Marcus House, Lucas House and Johannes House. All of them had a Head of House appointed from pupils […]
In Britain today, it takes a heart of stone to read about the suffering of Jewish students without laughing. The Jewish Chronicle has just published “Exclusive research” showing a “shocking volume of assaults, abuse and threats” suffered by Jews at British universities. Among the incidents that the Chronicle deems worthy of note are that “A […]
“Pretty Vacant” is a song by the Sex Pistols. It inspired the Guardian columnist John Crace to invent the nickname “Priti Vacant” for the politician Priti Patel (born 1972), an Indian Hindu woman who’s high in the British Conservative party. Crace thinks she’s stupid. Apart from our shared passion for the mighty Spurs, I don’t […]
“Utter scum.” That is how the libertarian Tom Slater has described the Southport killer Axel Rudakubana. Slater is blustering and evading the consequences of his own ideology. He’s doing the same when he calls Rudakubana an “eighteen-year-old Brit.” Rudakubana is obviously not British, but that’s precisely why Slater calls him that. Like all his comrades […]
Behind their smarm and sentimentality about the three dead little girls in Southport, leftists like Keir Starmer and journalists at the Guardian simply don’t care. They didn’t become leftists because they believe in Truth, Beauty and Goodness. No, they became leftists because leftism supplies the only things that truly matter to them: power, privilege, and […]
Richard Hermer must be utterly horrified. He’s the Jewish Attorney-General for the current Labour government and in 2024 he delivered the Bingham Lecture, a little-known but highly important event in Britain’s legal calendar. The title of his lecture was “The Rule of Law in an Age of Populism” and Hermer hammered away tirelessly on his […]
