Robert Peston as Chancellor? That'll sort things out
I was listening this morning to the great Robert Peston – an alumnus, in case you didn’t know it, of the Université Libre de Bruxelles – talking about the euro. He was not optimistic, causing his BBC...
View ArticleJohn Humphrys has made me proud to be a journalist
The BBC is on its knees, and its reputation may never recover from its mishandling of not one but two child abuse scandals. But for one glorious moment on Saturday morning, the Corporation was...
View ArticleLord Justice Leveson hasn’t done his homework
How innocuous it sounds, the word “recogniser”. According to Lord Falconer, the former Labour Lord Chancellor, this is the job description of the person – or rather body – Lord Justice Leveson wants to...
View ArticleHere are a couple of brisk and efficient charities that don't engage in lobbying
The fundamental error of the Left is its elevation of motive over outcome. Never mind that you bankrupted the country, drove up unemployment and made the poor poorer – at least you meant well. I've...
View ArticleHey guess what, kids don't speak the same as we did! Let's be all 'swag!...
Does anyone else slightly want to cry at that thing John Humphrys does on the Today programme about once every two years, when new slang words are put in the dictionary? You know, the thing where he...
View ArticleHave you tried our Telegraph Blogs? Aw, go on! Go on! Go on, go on, go on, GO...
This week in place of my usual column I've written a piece in The Daily Telegraph introducing print readers to Telegraph Blogs… Here’s some advice for Bono, Ed Miliband, John Humphrys and Godfrey...
View ArticleThe trouble with the BBC isn't that it is one-sidedly political, but that it...
Which way does the BBC swing? To the Left or the Right? This question – which grips the chattering classes almost as much as it anaesthetises ordinary people – is once again causing macchiatos to be...
View ArticleAllotments are now so trendy that even BBC executives are into them
Middle class to its very core, Radio Four's Today programme seldom misses a chance to extoll the virtues of organic farming or growing your own food. This morning was no exception, with some chap going...
View ArticleThe bacteria has been decimated: how much should we care what words used to...
Much amusement this morning on the Today programme, as John Humphrys shamefacedly confessed to having said "a bacteria" on the previous day's episode. Since Humphrys has made such a song and dance...
View Article5 reasons to feel good about Britain
What with the threat of imminent catastrophe on multiple fronts, and Nick Clegg being Deputy Prime Minister, and whining cricketers complaining about their lot when they should be thanking their lucky...
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