Almost exactly 21 years ago, I wrote a piece in the Spectator magazine alleging that Roy Greenslade, a prominent and respected columnist for The Guardian newspaper, had strong sympathies for the Irish Republican movement which he had never publicly admitted. This was, I believe, the first time anyone had pointed out Greenslade’s dubious connections. I … Read more
Are vaccine passports imperative if this country is ever going to return to normality? Or do they represent another unacceptable infringement of our liberties, as well as being deeply impractical? The Government until recently has leant towards the second view. Nadhim Zahawi, the vaccines minister, dismissed vaccine passports earlier this month as ‘discriminatory’. Only 10 … Read more
Let’s stand back for a moment from this awful pandemic and consider what has been done to us. No previous governments in peacetime, and very few in wartime, have curtailed personal freedoms to the extent that ours have been suppressed over the past 11 months. We can’t meet our nearest and dearest. We are obliged … Read more
Jeremy Mayhew, member of City of London’s governing body, told staff at the Barbican not to ‘feel too sorry’ for themselves There’s a widely held belief in the modern world that we have a human right to feel sorry for ourselves, and that particularly during the pandemic we should be allowed to let rip. So … Read more
Common, Danny Glover, and Bernie Sanders leading line-up of stars and activists celebrating Harry Belafonte’s upcoming 94th birthday By Christine Rendon For Dailymail.com Published: 02:50 GMT, 17 February 2021 | Updated: 02:50 GMT, 17 February 2021 Common, Danny Glover, and Bernie Sanders are leading a virtual line-up of stars, civil rights leaders, and activists celebrating … Read more
They could hardly have scripted it more carefully. No sooner do the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announce they are expecting a second child than it emerges that the two of them will give a long interview to their friend, U.S. TV host Oprah Winfrey, to be broadcast on March 7. One can only imagine … Read more
Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge to put their own spin on Mr. & Mrs. Smith in new series for Amazon By Kevin Kayhart For Dailymail.com Published: 03:54 GMT, 13 February 2021 | Updated: 04:00 GMT, 13 February 2021 It was box office magic: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as ultimate killer flirts in the action-comedy film, … Read more
How easily we slip into the unimaginable! Think back to before the pandemic — I know it’s hard. If you had been told then that travellers might be sentenced to ten years in prison for lying about which country they had recently visited, you wouldn’t have believed it. All right, you might have said, such … Read more
We have known for a long time that the European Union is a bully. It bullied Greece during the financial crisis which started in 2009, and from the moment the British people voted to leave the bloc, it tried to bully us into submission. But never until now have we seen the increasingly tyrannical nature … Read more
How quickly the pandemic is rotting the minds of supposedly clever civil servants and ministers. The latest crazy ideas to emanate from Whitehall are contained in a leaked 16-page official document. Mad idea number one: to pay £500 to every person testing positive for Covid-19. Mad (and dangerous) idea number two: to give police access … Read more