Stop me if I’ve told you this one before, but 20 years ago, a BNP-supporting aunt of mine forwarded me a document, purporting to be a scholarly explanation of why Muslims were inhuman, by a particular academic from a particular university. Even back in the pre-Cambridge Analytica days, I still did a quick fact check,…
Two books bestrode my childhood, and made me the man I am: The Magic Bridle, a collection of British and Irish myths retold by the folklorist Forbes Stuart, which ignited my six-year-old imagination in 1974, and Mysterious Britain by Janet and Colin Bord, published two years earlier, and part of a then burgeoning bookseller phenomenon…
On Wednesday, the professionally cross actor-songwriter Laurence Fox was taken off air by GB News, the newsertainment channel funded by the Brexiter philanthropist and banjo spaffer Sir Paul Marshall. Fox had performed a light comic monologue to a clearly delighted Dan Wootton in which he explained that only cuckolded incels would climb into bed with…
I love British traditions. Whose heart soars not upon seeing some drunk men chasing a cheese down a fatally steep Gloucestershire hill, or some drunk men burning their faces off carrying flaming tar barrels on their heads in a Devonshire village, or some drunk men dropping an enormous effigy of David Jason into a giant…
Last Monday, the Conservative government announced plans to scrap the water pollution rules that protect rivers from environmental damage caused by nearby housebuilding. Some people accuse Sunak’s government of being a zombie government, trapped by infighting and incompetence in legislative inertia, incapable of seeing any task through. This is unfair on zombies who, given enough…
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Mrdavisn01, Twitter
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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Bobby Bhoy, Twitter
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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12dgdgdgdgdgdg, Youtube
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Karen Laidlaw, Edfringe. com.
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Pnethor, pne-online.com
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Whoiscuriousgeorge, Youtube
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Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
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John Robins, Comedian
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Bosco239, youtube
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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