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Read moreThat old standby of the Labour years, the anti-racism festival, is under threat. The Rise Festival, which is normally held in Finsbury Park, north London, in September, will not take place this year now that the Mayor of London Boris...
Read moreWe are living through times which are rich with untapped satirical potential. Reptilian special advisers, crazed anonymous bloggers and rent-a-quote moralisers are all worthy subjects, but none is quite so deserving of the contempt of laughter than that great contemporary...
Read moreAt this time of the year, when part-time Christians all over the country will be making a rare visit to their local church in order to keep their membership up to date for another nine months, it has been salutary...
Read moreIt is becoming increasingly difficult to take the appropriate attitude towards England's patron saint - that is, to treat him as a slightly embarrassing joke. Once it was easy, when the white flag with a red cross was as reliable...
Read moreThe face of that familiar figure, the government nanny, is changing. Until recently, she was a scary, smiling appropriateness-enforcer with a hint of Cell Block H about her. In the imagination, she looked a bit like Harriet Harman. The new...
Read moreAlthough saving money is always welcome in these tricky times, it is with a real pang of sadness that I will be cancelling my direct debit to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and resigning my membership. Watching...
Read moreNo words encapsulate the spirit of the age more perfectly than that familiar phrase "named and shamed". When someone receives the named-and-shamed treatment, the world briefly seems a better, fairer place. Whether the guilty party is a politician, a dodgy...
Read moreHow comforting it is to be on the side of the good guys. Life may be complicated but at least there is one issue about which every decent, sensible person can agree. We hold these truths to be self-evident: the...
Read moreImagine that, instead of being an article in a newspaper, these words were part of an opinionated dinner-party conversation. Across the table is someone presenting a controversial and contrarian view - Melanie Phillips, perhaps, or Ken Livingstone. The question is...
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