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Professor Arday is the gift that keeps on giving

Are congratulations in order for Sacha Baron Cohen? The more I read about Jason Arday, the Cambridge sociology professor and DEI poster boy caught up...

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No sacred cows / Won’t someone please think of the French wine?

There was something surreal about my visit to La Cité du Vin, Bordeaux’s wine museum, last Saturday. From the top floor, with its panoramic view of...

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I’m sick of ‘plastic’ football fans

Last week I watched a clip of Ian Wright explaining why it meant so much to him, as a black former player, that Jude Bellingham is uninhibited about...

16.07.2026 10

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Confronting the climate Jeremiahs

The problem with being a well-known climate sceptic is that whenever there’s a heatwave, you get buttonholed by eco-zealots who think it...

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Confronting the climate Jeremiahs

The problem with being a well-known climate sceptic is that whenever there’s a heatwave, you get buttonholed by eco-zealots who think it...

09.07.2026 10

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The World Cup has revived American soft power

Not only were the England fans outnumbered by 30 to one inside the Azteca stadium, but on their way to and from the game they had to run a gauntlet of...

07.07.2026 10

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The World Cup has revived American soft power

Not only were the England fans outnumbered by 30 to one inside the Azteca stadium, but on their way to and from the game they had to run a gauntlet of...

06.07.2026 20

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School’s out for ever / Farewell to the school I founded

My son Charlie sat his final A-level paper last week and the significance of this has only just sunk in. It’s not simply that he has finished his...

01.07.2026 20

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School’s out for ever / Farewell to the school I founded

My son Charlie sat his final A-level paper last week and the significance of this has only just sunk in. It’s not simply that he has finished his...

01.07.2026 20

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Whoops, I’ve given my children a gambling problem

The problem with my gambling, Caroline has always maintained, is not the fact that I nearly always lose. I only ever bet on QPR, so that’s...

18.06.2026 10

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Was I too right-wing for MI6?

Like many people, I’ve been bemoaning the woke capture of our security services for some time. In 2024, Sir Richard Moore, then the head of MI6,...

11.06.2026 20

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No sacred cows / AI Armageddon has replaced climate change hysteria

How worried should we be about AI? Absolutely petrified, according to a new documentary called Chasing Utopia. Billed as the Inconvenient Truth of the...

27.05.2026 10

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No sacred cows / AI Armageddon has replaced climate change hysteria

How worried should we be about AI? Absolutely petrified, according to a new documentary called Chasing Utopia. Billed as the Inconvenient Truth of the...

27.05.2026 10

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No sacred cows / First they came for Mandelson…

At the time of writing, I haven’t seen the King’s Speech, but it’s a safe bet it will include a bill to enable wayward peers to be stripped of...

14.05.2026 20

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The American dream is dying. Good

The American dream is dying, according to the Times of London. To mark the US’s 250th anniversary, the paper commissioned YouGov to explore whether...

02.05.2026 20

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No sacred cows / Worried your child is being radicalised? Try this tip

A couple of weeks ago, the Guardian published an article entitled: ‘“I feel like I’m losing her”: the families torn apart by older relatives...

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No sacred cows / The noble work of chairlift diplomacy

In 1956, three British MPs encountered a group of Swiss politicians in the bar of the Hotel Flüela in Davos and after a few drinks challenged them to...

26.04.2026 20

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No sacred cows / The noble work of chairlift diplomacy

In 1956, three British MPs encountered a group of Swiss politicians in the bar of the Hotel Fluela in Davos and after a few drinks challenged them to...

25.04.2026 20

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No sacred cows / The American dream is dying. Good

The American dream is dying, according to the Times. To mark the US’s 250th anniversary, the paper commissioned YouGov to explore whether the...

24.04.2026 10

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London has fallen

I disagree with Sam Leith’s recent piece entitled ‘London hasn’t fallen’. He took at face value Sadiq Khan’s claim in a recent speech at a...

17.04.2026 30

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No sacred cows / Does Jolyon Maugham have any self-doubt?

I was leaving the CNN presidential election night party at dawn in 2016, having celebrated Donald Trump’s victory, when Paul Staines, then the...

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White working-class boys are being left behind in Britain

Late March marked the fifth anniversary of the publication of the report of Lord Sewell’s Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities (CRED). In...

16.04.2026 10

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The pros and cons of a Free Speech Bill

Preston Byrne, the radical American lawyer, says his new Free Speech Bill, which the Adam Smith Institute publishes today, was inspired by something I...

01.04.2026 20

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No sacred cows / Louis Theroux needs to make a positive case for masculinity

I’ve always had a soft spot for Louis Theroux. I wouldn’t call him a friend, exactly, but I’ve known him for about 40 years. We started our...

25.03.2026 20

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No sacred cows / Louis Theroux needs to make a positive case for masculinity

I’ve always had a soft spot for Louis Theroux. I wouldn’t call him a friend, exactly, but I’ve known him for about 40 years. We started our...

25.03.2026 40

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No sacred cows / Am I an extremist?

The Communities Secretary Steve Reed recently rose in the House of Commons to unveil “Protecting What Matters,” the British government’s new...

22.03.2026 30

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No sacred cows / When did gyms become so unfriendly?

One of the drawbacks of being on the jabs is that you can lose muscle mass as well as body fat. I’ve been taking Mounjaro for about six months and,...

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No sacred cows / When did gyms become so unfriendly?

One of the drawbacks of being on the jabs is that you can lose muscle mass as well as body fat. I’ve been taking Mounjaro for about six months and,...

17.02.2026 60

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No sacred cows / Should I be cancelled for being in the Epstein files?

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No sacred cows / Should I be cancelled for being in the Epstein files?

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Can superintelligent AI be regulated?

01.02.2026 30

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No sacred cows / The rise of toxic femininity

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No sacred cows / Grok is the Botticelli of our time

21.01.2026 30

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No sacred cows / Grok is the Botticelli of our time

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No sacred cows / Grok is the Botticelli of our time

15.01.2026 20

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No sacred cows / All hail the chickenpox vaccine!

12.01.2026 40

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No sacred cows / All hail the chickenpox vaccine!

12.01.2026 20

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No sacred cows / I’ve been duped by the Toby hoaxers

05.01.2026 30

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No sacred cows / I’ve been duped by the Toby hoaxers

05.01.2026 20

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No sacred cows / I spend more on wine than I do on my mortgage

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