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I am triply sickened by the British-Pakistani grooming scandal. Firstly, by the men who objectified and used young white girls and their families,...
Farage, Farage everywhere; not a drop of doubt from pollsters, pundits or political insiders. His time, they say, is coming. Thanks to our...
Christmas was not celebrated in our household before 1989. My ex-husband and I, both Shia Muslims, loved the street decorations. Our son had small...
It was my birthday on 10 December. I find it impossibly hard to type the number, so will just say that I could have officially retired 15 years...
On Question Time in Lincoln last week, a white, middle-aged man in the audience said this: “Migrants, illegal or legal, weren’t responsible for...
An acquaintance of mine who has been taking care of her severely disabled partner, is, herself, now becoming incapacitated. They’ve sold their big...
Oi, Greg Wallace, I am one of those “middle-class women of a certain age” to which you refer. We see right through your dimpled smile, that old...
Who would have thought it possible? My heart has gone out to Nadine Dorries. I’m not being sarky or sly. It is the honest truth. The hostilities...
Gawd, the sound and fury at the farmers’ march against inheritance tax, which according to BBC fact checkers, will affect only around 500 farms with...
Last Friday, in our London neighbourhood, a mum was struggling to get a child’s wheelchair over the entrance to a charity shop. A man and I helped...
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With the House of Windsor in a period of transition since the accession of King Charles III, three i writers consider the future of Britain’s...
By now the unctuous Dickie Arbiter will be on the airwaves telling us how bloody marvellous the Windsors are, and how blessed their subjects. Piers...
This Saturday the next Tory leader will be declared. Robert Jenrick, one of the final two in the race, realises migrant bashing is no longer...
In a restaurant last week, I was seated near a group of thirtysomethings, four women and two men. After some inconsequential tittle-tattle, one of...
Benjamin Disraeli, the Victorian Tory novelist and statesman, who twice became prime minister, understood the impetus and cost of fame and power:...
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The Royal College of Psychiatry has just expressed concern that asylum seekers, who have endured physical and psychological harm, are being “...
Earlier this year, a supermarket security guard accused a young woman of stealing nappies. She was carrying a child, a beautiful little girl with...
Ten years ago this month, Jack, aged 12, and Paul, who was nine, were locked in a house, with all escape routes blocked, and burned to death by...
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi has quit the Tory party because, she believes, it has become too right wing and toxic. I know and like Baroness Warsi. She’s...
I’ve just got back from Sri Lanka, a beautiful country, the people I met mostly serene and smiley. A happy place. Unexpected in a land which was...
On the last day of August I tweeted this: “So will @Keir_Starmer give his full backing to the MP for Ilford South [Jas Athwal], the landlord of...
Dear oh dear, GB News is apoplectic. As it always is, about deplorable “anti-British” treachery or wokery or whatever. Expect huff and puff from...
King Charles visited Southport, where three little girls were killed, last week. His compassion and care must have meant a lot to the grieving and...
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Google “Gabriela Rodriguez, cleane r” and you get a tidal wave of news reports from the UK media, as well various global outlets including the Hin...
Here come the populist excuses for the violent insurrections. Racist and fascist distributors of conspiracies instigated the riots, but the blame,...
The billionaire owner of X, Elon Musk, is attempting to shape British politics and society. He has been clashing with Sir Keir Starmer and...
I was there, pregnant, and marching against the National Front in Lewisham in 1977, and again, in the East End in 1978, after Altab Ali, a textile...
I come not to bury the BBC but to praise it. More faintly than ever before, for reasons we will come to. But to me, this long surviving media body...
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In October 2022, then home secretary Suella Braverman disclosed to us her deepest yearning, her aching desire: “I would love to have a front page...