Anthony Daniels
Official Complaint
Immigration officials may be fearsome but they act as no deterrent against illegal immigrants
Flagging Loyalty
The cross of St George is everywhere, and is a symbol of the militant ugliness of countless English people
Litter Bugged
Ludicrous Health and Safety measures in our schools mean that children are wearing knee-pads to prevent scrapes while they play in litter-strewn playgrounds.
Seat Cheats
The enormous hidden costs of low-cost air travel are symptomatic of a disturbing cultural shift
Soppy Sop
Our justice system suffers from a sentimental preoccupation with legally irrelevant testimony to victims’ personalities
Dear Sir or Madam
Our refusal to address others as ‘Sir’ or ‘Madam’ stems from our ideological revulsion against hierarchy
Raymond Tallis
The philosopher-physician should be praised for swimming against the post-modernist current
The Cap Doesn’t Fit
Why do so many people insist on wearing baseball caps? Is it from a perverse desire to look stupid?
Second Life
Charity shops are now a British peculiarity, but their bookshelves often contain real gems amongst the airport fiction
Shelf Life
Being a shelf-stacker at a supermarket is not a dishonourable occupation, and we should be thankful for those that do it
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?