A friend has taken me to task for bothering to write about Gwyneth Paltrow. How could I stoop so low as to contribute to the…
John Jessop Posts
Now that Margaret Hilda Roberts has been safely consigned to meet her maker (I hope He’s ready) we can finally get back to reading about…
Admirers of Margaret Thatcher tend to fall into two classes: those who admire her unconditionally and those who admire her through gritted teeth. I fall…
Does Stephen Hawking indulge an occasional Twitter? What about, say, Jonathan Miller; or Alan Bennett, Richard Dawkins and Melvyn Bragg? Does the Chancellor of Oxford…
If you’re not living in Britain you almost certainly won’t have heard of Mrs. Ann Barnes or Miss Paris Brown, and in a couple of…
It all went off brilliantly. Of course it did; the Brits can organize this kind of occasion in their sleep, funerals especially so. Margaret Thatcher…
Mick Philpott, convicted yesterday of killing six of his children, is by no means the worst multiple killer in recent history, but he’s one of…
Britain’s teaching unions evidently despise the Education Secretary Michael Gove, and in particular his proposals for a new National Curriculum, to which my instinctive reaction…
What is hate crime? I thought I knew. My interpretation was that it was any criminal act, typically one involving assault, committed against a person…
Something extraordinary has happened in England this morning: the sun is out. After five months of almost unremitting gloom and frigidity, the weather today resembles…