Nutt job
I hope anyone who’s going to the pub tonight takes sensible precautions, and brings a straw: According to Nutt, the optimal dose is 5gm a day, which is about a third of a glass of wine or half a pint … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Culture
Man brought up to see racism everywhere sees racism everywhere
That Soweto Kinch guy doesn’t sound like someone with a political axe to grind at all, no, not at all: Soweto’s 2010 release The New Emancipation drew its inspiration from 19th century work songs and early blues, exploring the modern … Continue reading →
Roger Scruton RIP
I was stunned to hear of Roger Scruton’s death yesterday. He wrote to me only last week, telling me that he was enjoying my novel, and that he was in good spirits regarding his health, so I wasn’t expecting this … Continue reading →
YYZ
It might seem strange to celebrate Neil Peart’s life with a video that features an animation of him, rather than the real thing, but it’s a brilliant animation that really highlights his drumming skills. (And it’s one of the classic … Continue reading →
In a galaxy far, far away…
Why does every young Telegraph newspaper writer – I say ‘writer’ rather than ‘journalist’, because these ‘investigators’ no more get off their chairs and go outside and investigate than I do – have to be woke-friendly? Can they really not … Continue reading →
Blowin’ in the wind
Never let it be said that this blog only attacks the left. Consider the story of Tristan Morgan, the folk-singing neo-Nazi who almost incinerated his own head while he was trying to burn down a synagogue in Exeter in 2018 … Continue reading →
Turns out Marlon Brando was channelling Gene Kelly
The Independent complains that Ricky Gervais has betrayed Hollywood’s tradition of classiness: Ricky Gervais’s performance at last night’s Golden Globes was enough to make Gene Kelly turn in his grave. Once upon a time, Hollywood was synonymous with elegance and … Continue reading →
“We shook things up, though mainly people’s bank accounts”
James Oliver thinks his restaurants did a great job: We launched Jamie’s Italian in 2008 with the intention of positively disrupting mid-market dining in the UK high street, with great value and much higher quality ingredients, best-in-class animal welfare standards … Continue reading →
That climate change gets around
Did climate change cause all those cars to burn in Paris too? … Continue reading →
And there I was thinking I was immortal…
Woman whose Dad died young tells us: “If you lose a parent young, we all suffer from death anxiety, so you’re pretty much convinced everyone is going to die,” she says. But everyone is going to die. The only issue … Continue reading →
#ThirdWednesday Speakeasy
So I went to the December Midlands Libertarian Drinks (#ThirdWednesday) on Wednesday, and it was a rollicking success. So many people turned up that it was somewhat manic, but in a good way. The atmosphere was jolly, partly because of … Continue reading →
Guess the euphemism
Teenage gang lured gay men to city park on Grindr to rob and humiliate them in homophobic attacks Which word do you need to substitute for which other word here to find out the real story? … Continue reading →
Grovel before us, possible apostate
So Hollywood called out actor Chris Pratt for using a single-use plastic water bottle, and a suitably-shamed Chris Pratt grovelled out an apology: Actor Chris Pratt on Wednesday apologized for posting a photo on Instagram of him posing at a … Continue reading →
If you can’t get rid of the BBC, bring it to heel and shrink it
Yesterday I wrote about disbanding the BBC and Channel 4. This, I think, is the best course of action a Conservative government could take. But it’s a course of action that the Johnson government is extremely unlikely to take, plus … Continue reading →
How could it get any more humiliating, yet still they’re in charge?
This is unbelievable — you’d think it must come from some Tom Sharpeish, over-the-top satire. The London Bridge attacker was heralded as a success story of the rehabilitation initiative that he went on to attack, it emerged on Sunday night. … Continue reading →