Piddington’s very English revolution
At a packed village hall meeting in picturesque Piddington, parish council leader Tim McNally railed against the British state. “The Government has stacked all of…
Weaponized migration menaces Europe
As 60,000 illegal immigrants poured into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta late last week, there was little sign of concern from Moroccan authorities. One of the many thousands of young…
Did MAGA create the Ceuta crisis?
Sixty-thousand people — roughly the population of Loughborough. That is how many migrants just forced their way into the Spanish town of Ceuta, a coastal enclave on the Moroccan side…
A ‘grooming’ crisis at the ICC
There is a good case to be made that “international law,” as it presently exists, is a tangled mess of conceptual nothingness. And that the supranational institutions that purport to…
The great mayoralty swindle
If a week is a long time in politics, then seven months must be an age. It was only in January this year that members of Labour’s ruling National Executive…
Sharpe: relic of a lost Britain
Whatever the merits of Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey, and Matt Damon’s portrayal of Odysseus as a suburban American dad, weary and stricken with guilt over his role in the Great War…
Burnham is keeping his enemies close
Last Monday, Andy Burnham delivered what was perhaps the most ambitious statement of economic intent since 1997. Standing outside Downing Street, the Prime Minister spoke of “a new political model…
Why the rich fall for bullshit therapy
It sounds like a Netflix thriller. First, the mysterious death: an aging high-street fashion mogul falls to his death from a scenic coastal precipice while walking with his middle-aged son,…
We are all Bryan Johnson now
After holding a developmental reading of a play I have been working on about a fictional transhumanist and his world, I was able to briefly correspond with Bryan Johnson. One…
Will the queue bring down Putin?
Few things symbolize late Soviet decay like the queue. I remember, in 1991, walking to the grocery store from school so I could hold a place in line for my…
The truth about Britain’s social-care cartel
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. I’ve seen things Andy Burnham wouldn’t believe. Read more On plagiarism While lying paralyzed in a hospital bed, I have watched NHS nurses…