With Prejudice
Goodbye, Old Banger
“Audrey the Audi must go and I have to buy a nice four-door runaround. It’s just like my election dilemma—if not Audrey, who?”
Foreign Affairs
“Wales was every bit as foreign to my eyes as navigating an archipelago or dropping into a dinghy to visit a frigatebird”
Labour has Lost Me
‘I’m an actress, Ed, and I am often commended for my timing. Frankly, my dear, yours sucks’
The Road to Repentance
‘There was a waiting room inside for all Speed Awareness miscreants and it resembled a clinic for sexually transmitted diseases’
Disproportionate Reportage
“Carnage on the beach because they have their Iron Dome.” For this read: “Not enough Jews dead!
An Incisive Observer
‘The first generation sweats on market stalls to give their kids the education that enables them, ultimately, to patronise their parents’
Glad to be Grey
‘I’ve recently let my hair go grey. It meant allowing years of highlights, lowlights and serial pigment abuse to fade into the palette of a catalogue from The White Company’
Typecast by the ‘ologies
‘I know that my obituary will read “Lipman Gets Cut Off”, but I honestly thought the BT ‘ology commercials were toasted bagels-until Nigel Farage brought it all back’
Carrying water for freedom
Hong Kong’s protestors are brave and, so far, successful. The Chinese Communist Party leadership must be kicking itself
Discussions with a stone wall
Britain’s main gay rights organisation is risking its own future by adopting gender self-ID as its new cause
In the heartlands of white-flag academia
When I tried to find out why my pro-Brexit article was turned down I was rebuffed — showing the intellectual conformism of universities