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Something about Angela Rayner turns men into jumpy teenage boys

Something about Angela Rayner seems to turn a whole lot of male politicians and commentators into jumpy teenage boys. In the Sunday Times this week,...

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If more than a hundred men a year were killed by women, how would the country react?

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Lefties like me have become fair game, so let me explain three things

On Monday, the charmless Liz Truss told the LBC radio host Iain Dale that those with left-wing beliefs were “smearing her” by blaming her for...

17.04.2024 4

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Rich people, can you please stop pretending to be skint?

The recently released Forbes list of the world’s billionaires shows the club is swelling and that members are richer than ever. There are now 141...

09.04.2024 6

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The biggest myth about Great Britain

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05.04.2024 4

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Arab nations have utterly betrayed Palestinians

On Sunday I went to my friend’s 75th birthday tea party. Born in the USA, she moved here, married a Brit and became a Londoner. As did I. She is...

03.04.2024 20

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There’s an exodus of nurses because of our revolting racism

There is an exodus of nurses out of the UK. You may not have heard this news because such information would disrupt the dark folktale spun by many...

26.03.2024 20

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Older people, the UK is drowning – our country needs us

I was at the Oxford Literary Festival last weekend, speaking as well as listening. I’ve been doing that for many years. This time, the mood in the...

22.03.2024 6

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The real problem with private members' clubs

Well, I never! A membership list of the secretive men-only Garrick Club has been published for the first time ever! And guess what? It contains names...

19.03.2024 4

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Michael Gove’s new definition of extremism is his most devious move yet

I am in danger of being classed as an extremist and terrorist. As is my friend, Natasha Walter – Jewish, British, writer, redoubtable feminist and...

12.03.2024 20

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Ask yourself this: why are you so afraid of Blackout nights at the theatre?

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08.03.2024 6

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There is only one way we can save our fast-rotting democracy

What if our Commons had, say, 50 candidates unattached to the major parties? Imagine that. Come with me through this thought experiment. Politicians...

06.03.2024 4

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Bigotry is an essential microbiome in the Tory gut culture

My son was born on 30 January, 1978. On that very day, Margaret Thatcher, then Opposition leader, spoke thus on a Granada TV programme: “People are...

27.02.2024 3

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Being the least worst option is an obnoxious way to win an election

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23.02.2024 5

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Tory voters want Boris Johnson back. Sorry, but never again

Here comes yet another poll of the Tory faithful, this one commissioned by Lady McAlpine, an incurable Boris Johnson addict. More than half of the...

21.02.2024 6

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Not every father should have the right to see their child

At last, a Tory MP I can fulsomely praise: Kate Kniveton. Her voting record would, no doubt, dismay this socialist, but she’s become an unlikely...

13.02.2024 10

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The BBC has lost its soul

Over the years, you will have read me fervently praising the BBC. All children of the old empire carry this faith in their hearts. We are, literally,...

09.02.2024 40

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After Gaza, the West will never regain its moral superiority

A Syrian refugee and doctor I met in London last week told me, with immense sadness, that Western governments and systems, once widely admired in the...

07.02.2024 4

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I was wrong about the House of Lords

Betty Boothroyd, who became the first female Speaker of the House of Commons, and later, a Baroness, was going to use her valedictory speech to call...

30.01.2024 8

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As a Muslim and an anti-racist, there’s a clear moral path on Rochdale

News impatiently rushes forwards. Producers and consumers get caught up in the currents of now and the near future. But sometimes, one needs to get...

26.01.2024 2

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Dear Keir, are you brave enough to stand up to the war on woke?

Do you know what “woke” means? Are you with or against those fighting wokeness and cancel culture? Would you vote for an MP just because he/she...

24.01.2024 3

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Does Labour understand the perilous state of the NHS? Not really, no

How much more can the NHS suffer before it expires? Should the life-support machine, which is itself getting timeworn, be turned off as an act of...

16.01.2024 3

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Camila Batmanghelidjh was too good for this world

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12.01.2024 10

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We are still paying for Cameron and Clegg's disastrous coalition

The ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office has generated political and social quakes not seen since the 1966 BBC TV play about homelessness, Cathy...

10.01.2024 3

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The truth behind Hamas’s birth has been forgotten

We cross into the new year and try to start afresh, leave all the bad stuff behind. As 2024 begins, such renewal feels foolish and delusional. Brutal...

03.01.2024 10

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£600 for a Christmas day dinner? Rip off Britain at its worst

I don’t feel at all merry, or full of festive cheer. Admittedly, the lead up to Christmas has always felt excessive, noisy, disconnected from its...

19.12.2023 5

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Watch out, Rishi Sunak – now white Britons are appalled by your cruelty too

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15.12.2023 8

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The starkest poverty for 60 years is hurting democracy

Christmas: the season of joy, peace, laughter, lights and trees, thankfulness, sharing, charitable giving, presents, carols, drinking and eating too...

13.12.2023 10

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Return the Elgin Marbles - for Britain's sake

You may think the row over the Parthenon Sculptures is old news. In fact, it is a canary down the coal mine, a harbinger of what’s to come....

05.12.2023 7

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Another fine mess for the Royal Family

The Windsors find themselves in a mess. Again. When will they learn to observe the environment and avoid these reputational catastrophes? The first...

01.12.2023 4

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All Gaza gets now is willful ignorance from people who should know better

I know I must be assiduous, fair, rational and irreproachable when writing this column on Gaza and censorship. But the subject is so emotive and...

29.11.2023 4

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Why does nothing work in Britain today? Let me explain

Recently, at a grand dinner, a feisty British-Asian woman in a black suit bounded up and said: “I always wanted to meet you, such a celebrity.”...

21.11.2023 8

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I've always defended the EU – now I'm having doubts

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17.11.2023 7

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It pains me to say it, but Nadine Dorries was right about posh boys

I heard the news, like everyone else, with disbelief. David Cameron, oops, Lord Cameron, is now Foreign Secretary. The new Lord was installed, as if...

15.11.2023 6

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Free speech has become a privilege of the ruling class

So, you think we live in a free country? That we can speak, write, tweet, repost, at will? That the state cannot control what we think, read, listen...

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In Canada I learned how the UK can resist the populist threat

I travelled across Canada in October, ostensibly for a break, but really for complicated personal, and also political, reasons. The first was to...

03.11.2023 4

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Boris Johnson will never pay for what he did to this country – and we will never recover

Sorry, dear readers, but I feel compelled to write again on the malevolent legacy of Boris Johnson and the fans, champions and patrons who still carry...

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Western leaders are too scared to tell the truth about Gaza's collective punishment

I re-entered Britain’s orbit last Thursday after a blissful, media-free holiday in Canada. Along with jetlag, I had to get psyched up as I got back...

24.10.2023 3

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Western leaders are too scared to tell the truth about Gaza's collective punishment

I re-entered Britain’s orbit last Thursday after a blissful, media-free holiday in Canada. Along with jetlag, I had to get psyched up as I got back...

24.10.2023 3

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I wrote the book on multiculturalism in the UK, so let me dispel some myths for you

Suella Braverman gets attention by starting fires. This week her words spread fierce blazes and blinding smoke around these isles. Again. She is more...

06.10.2023 10

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What I saw at Tory conferences made me never want to go again

What I saw at Tory conferences made me never want to go again. I had a column in The Independent for 18 years before I joined i in 2016. Ian...

03.10.2023 2

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Rishi Sunak teasing an inheritance tax cut reveals a desperate government in its final days

Rishi Sunak may be poised to pull another dead rabbit out of his tatty hat. Last week, he appeared at a Downing Street podium, full of vim. It was an...

26.09.2023 4

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Israel and Palestine is the most censored issue in our country

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Right-wing ideologues can't work out who broke Britain, so let me explain

Ever since Brexit, right-wing politicians and their media, academic and think-tank collaborators have been militantly upbeat and, also, brutishly...

20.09.2023 6

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Liberalism lost its confidence after Brexit, but EU flags at the Proms suggest it's back

Dear oh dear. Those patriotic snowflakes – many still clinging on to Brexit delusions – are triggered again. The Proms, the BBC’s annual season...

12.09.2023 10

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The sordid case of Peter Wilby is a chilling reminder of the extent of UK child abuse

When it comes to child sex abuse, too many professionals, local authorities, communities, national institutions and the media look after their own –...

09.09.2023 6

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Andrew Tate's followers show why the feminist gaze needs to shift

I had read and heard stuff about Andrew Tate. What I knew I abhorred, nebulously and intuitively. He was clearly an egotist/narcissist/sexist/brutal...

07.09.2023 3

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