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“I’m sorry,” I said, “I can’t spend the rest of the morning talking about this idiotic mistake.” Generally speaking, I try not to be rude to people who ring me on official business. They have a living to earn, and cannot be held responsible for the scripts which they are required to read out, before…
The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism by Peter Oborne Boris Johnson is a liar. This charge is often made by the Prime Minister’s critics, and Peter Oborne makes it with tremendous vehemence: “Standards of truth telling, I will prove, collapsed at the precise moment Boris…
The election is over; Joe Biden is in the White House; and Donald Trump has returned to his home in Florida. While vocally unhappy with the outcome, Trump didn’t refuse to leave Washington, which was suggested as a remote possibility by Forbes senior contributor Jack Kelly. In the wake of the election, Trump has been…
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof recently penned a column titled “A Letter to My Conservative Friends,” with the subheading “Hold us accountable, but please do the same for the charlatans who deceive you, use you, and cheat you.” Kristof doesn’t name any conservative friends, so we can’t be sure he has any. It’s fascinating…
This time last year, the concept of a “vaccine passport” would have sounded utterly bizarre to most people; dystopian, even. And yet, here we are. Today The Times reports that the Government is developing “Covid vaccine passports to allow foreign holidays”. Currently anyone who has been vaccinated is given a rather primitive record card. But…
Robert Goodwill is MP for Scarborough and Whitby, and a former Home Office and Education Minister. We have all been shocked and appalled by reports of homeowners being unfairly targeted by a combination of unscrupulous developers and incompetent solicitors where escalating ground rents have made their dream home unsellable. The Government has rightly said that…
Nick Maughan is an investor and philanthropist. All young people have been dealt a bad hand by the indirect effects of the pandemic – school closures, disrupted social lives, stifled educations, scuppered paths to university, the looming prospect of insurmountable debt, and diminished prospects for gainful employment. However, some young people are more equal than…
Eight years ago, the TaxPayers’ Alliance reported that “in the last year, five times more Labour people were appointed to public bodies than Tories”. It currently reports that almost half of avowedly political appointees last year owed their allegiance to Labour Party, compared to less than a third for the Conservatives. Despite the selection of…
Government plans Covid vaccine passports to allow foreign holidays “British officials have started work on a “vaccine passport” as Greece prepares to waive quarantine rules for tourists who can prove that they have been inoculated against coronavirus. A certification system is being planned, The Times has learnt. The Foreign Office, Department for Transport and Department…
