There is a lot of angry noise right now but also a noticeable, disturbing, silence. The noise is coming, of course, from Black Lives Matter activists and their supporters and enablers. The silence is coming from people who are normally happy to share their views but who are keeping their…

As Black Lives Matter becomes the latest American franchise to establish a presence in the UK, it is worth asking the question, what is the product they are selling us? Similar to the recently re-opened American fast food chains, this drive-through activism, unfamiliar to the ways of Britain and its…

The ‘Maitlis Monologue’ has left the BBC exposed and raised questions about objectivity but the broader problem is a lack of political plurality in the broadcast media. “Dominic Cummings broke the rules — the country can see that and it’s shocked the government cannot,” declared Emily Maitlis in her BBC…

Boris Johnson should not give into the opposition/media alliance that is hounding Dominic Cummings. After day four of the persecution of Dominic Cummings, there is some puzzlement in most media and political circles as to how Boris Johnson’s chief advisor remains in his job. The affair has been, after all…

When the bell tolled, at 10.05 pm on Thursday night and the BBC announced the results of their astonishingly accurate exit poll, the emotions of some of us who had feared a Corbyn victory, went through a head-spinning, rapid progression. For me, firstly there was bewilderment at the scale of…

Something has happened in this miserable general election campaign that few but the most pessimistic believed could ever occur in this country. A party riddled with antisemitism and led by a man who has never ceased to ally with anti-Semites, including the most violent and murderous version, is set to…