In a recent article in the Spectator, Douglas Murray argues that since the Chinese Communist Party, by accident or by design, has destroyed all the world’s economies except its own through its virus exports, the countries of the world ought to get together and demand reparations. Naturally, this is pie in the sky, but the more serious point, which Murray … [Read on]

The Appeal Court has decided not to extend the sentences of the killers of P C Harper. Another court has refused to prevent an extra runway being built at Heathrow thus opening the way to doubling the traffic and pollution over London. Last year the Supreme Court tried to overturn the Brexit referendum. Meanwhile day after day immigrant appeal court … [Read on]

Twenty years ago you could pass freely in and out of the country with a paper passport. The police could be there to arrest you if you were wanted for a major crime, but as they had no means of knowing when you would leave, or by what means, it was possible to slip out under an assumed name, a … [Read on]

With a growing list of reasons not to fund the BBC, whether it was the cover up of Jimmy Saville’s crimes, highly partisan Brexit coverage whilst claiming impartiality, more recent revelations about Martin Bashir’s conduct or simply insufferably ruination of once adored national broadcaster through relentless left-wing propaganda there has never been a better time to stop paying the telly … [Read on]

Six years ago, in a lovely part of Tuscany, there was some tension between my married friends, an English solicitor and his Albanian wife. She was obviously miffed about something but every time she started telling me about it he hoved into view. They united as a couple, against me, during a conversation about mushrooms. We’d picked some for tea … [Read on]

It’s not often that the police find themselves called in to deal with disputes within the church. Last month, however, they were. Ben John of Christian Concern, a traditionalist ginger group, issued a 15-minute video attacking the C of E’s 2020 initiative Living in Love and Faith (Living in Love and Faith), a substantial publication whose professed aim is to … [Read on]

With the police investigating the Bible for hate speech you have to wonder how Christ would fare in modern Britain. Subscribe to the quarterly print magazine Subscribe to the quarterly digital magazine

Until the 1950s, universities tended to be hot on students’ morals, if not excessively so on their scholarship. Little happened to the bone-idle or simply thick, especially if they were personable and good on the sports field or behind an oar; but woe betide the man or woman found illicitly sharing a room at night, or breaking some other moral … [Read on]