What would you say if your spouse bought a luxury campervan? I know what I would say – something along the lines of: ‘Get that thing away from me. I refuse to spend wet weekends campervanning around the Highlands, and I don’t care whether the bathroom facilities are “luxury” or not.’
Every new technology brings fears.
The Labour party seems to have ignored the advice I gave it in last week’s column, and so we are going to be treated to one of those down-market beauty pageants where candidates for the Labour leadership spend weeks talking competitively about the evils of Thatcherism…
In a piece which has already been widely debunked, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times claimed that Israeli prison guards routinely use rape as a method of torture on Palestinian prisoners.
My own song version might not top the charts as D:Ream’s did, but mine has the benefit of being true. ‘Things Can Always Get Worse’
‘Tax the rich!” That used to be the sort of sentiment you might expect from a student who’d just discovered a bit of Marxism and had yet to pay their first tax bill.
There are many ways to do nothing. One is to sit on your hands; another is to call for ‘a conversation’. I have noticed quite a lot of calls for ‘a conversation’ since the stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green last week.
Douglas Murray: The accusations shouted by protesters outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner didn’t stay outside. Neither did the logic behind them.
This isn’t only a problem for social media companies. It is a problem for our democracy. And it is one we need to tackle.
“Demonization” is one of the words of the era, but last Saturday night the effects of demonization took on a fresh aspect
At the height of the 2020 riots, a book was published entitled “In Defense of Looting.”
Willie Donaldson, who died in 2005, has a claim to having had the best obituary sub-heading of any writer I know. ‘Wykehamist pimp, crack fiend and adulterer who created Henry Root and Beyond the Fringe’ was how the Telegraph memorably summed up his life.