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From Saturday’s Daily Telegraph The results of the 2011 Census, published last year, were pretty devastating for Christianity, indicating that it will be a minority religion in Britain by 2018. This week we were given a more detailed breakdown of the figures. I took one look at them and thought: OMG. That’s short for “Oh [...]
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Nigel Farage has been discovering the hard way that politics in Scotland is often a rough business. He put the phone down on the BBC Good Morning Scotland programme on Friday morning, believing the reporter’s line of questioning displayed the xenophobia that had led to him being barricaded in an Edinburgh pub just around the [...]
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It takes a considerable effort to cut through the fog of claim and counterclaim by Europhiles and Eurosceptics to get a clear view of just what is now happening in the House of Commons over the question of whether and when we should have a referendum on the issues (and I use the plural deliberately) [...]
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Philip Hammond, one of the most able Cabinet ministers, laments the “distraction” of parliamentary time set aside for reform of the marriage laws. He says that civil partnerships are just fine. The “distraction” note is meant to imply detached regret. As Philip Collins at the Times tweeted, it’s what politicians say when they don’t agree [...]
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In a speech to the think-tank Demos, Diane Abbott, the female Labour MP, has given a horrendously matronising and ham-fisted speech entitled “Britain’s crisis of masculinity”. Britain, she suggested, is in danger of having “a generation of British men without realistic heroes”, of becoming “a nation of atomised, lonely, entrepreneurial boys, who often have lives without meaning”. In [...]
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Last week, I managed to wind up almost the entire population of Leftie teachers with my blog post about Michael Rosen’s elementary grammatical error in his Guardian article attacking the idea that primary school children should be taught elementary grammar. I’ve never had so much potty-mouthed abuse on Twitter. And to think these people are [...]
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In a short time, I shall be leaving the country for at least two years (stop cheering). When I return, Ed Miliband will be the prime minister. Whether this constitutes an achievement for a Labour leader is open to debate. The legalised gerrymandering which the Coalition parties have, through their mutual dishonesty, ensured will be [...]
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Yesterday’s news of a corruption scandal engulfing the Indian Premier League should shock few. The wonder is that it has taken until the IPL’s sixth season for something like this to erupt. It was once the case that stories of corruption in cricket were greeted with incredulity. Now the feeling is more of weary resignation: [...]
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A hypothetical. Ed Miliband’s sitting in his office, struggling with an especially complicated Rubik’s Cube puzzle. Perhaps it’s actually a Rubik’s Snake, or even one of those devilish Rubik’s Triangles. Anyway, it all gets a bit much for him and he slips off his chair and bangs his head. Or, he’s walking down the street, [...]
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Michael Gove is quite right to say that the best British urban plans – the Nash Terraces of Regent’s Park, or Edinburgh’s New Town – make the country more beautiful. And, if new development schemes were as beautiful as that, we’d all rush to live in them. The problem is, in one of the world’s [...]
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