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Opinion journalist, critic, sketch and leader writer. Mail. Spectator. Pauline Kael was right about Hiroshima, Mon Amour. You didn’t read the article, did you?
Three reasons why Gaza has become the unifying issue of British politics: 1. The political class is chronically America-brained 2. Large-scale Muslim immigration 3. The UK is a country in decline telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/1…
The Christopher Nolan reference is 🤌.
New NHS Fife departments just opened... If I recall...
Slowly at first, then all at once.
"Two more members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) have come forward following news that Sandie Peggie is suing the union for failing to support her in her case against Fife NHS." archive.ph/eegwb
Everyone thinks it’s grand that Jessica Fletcher goes all over solving murders the local cops can’t. I just wonder what happens when she’s back home in Cabot Cove. How many thousands of murders are going unsolved across the United States because of serially incompetent police?
‘The mass immigration of foreign-born Muslims is making obsessive hatred of Jews and Israel a fact of mainstream political discourse in Britain.’ Some observations on the Palestine Action protests over at the @Telegraph. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/1…
‘If NHS Fife had simply shredded the Equality Act and glued the pieces back together at random, it would have made for a more coherent policy than the one put in place.’ Some @spectator thoughts on Sandie Peggie and the lanyardocracy that rules over us. spectator.co.uk/article/its-ti…
Some much-deserved filleting of progressive pieties by @TheSimonEvans. buff.ly/zKUzwVm
James Cameron, who is in pre-production on a movie about Hiroshima, has been throwing shade on Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”. Problem is, he misses what’s really wrong with that movie. I thought I’d write about it to escape the tedium of politics. api.omarshehata.me/substack-proxy…
This is like when Scots sputter about being Anyone But England in football because ‘THE ENGLISH ALWAYS SUPPORT WHOEVER WE PLAY AGAINST CAUSE THEY HATE TO SEE US WIN’. Mate, your relationship is literally the Michael Ginsberg/Don Draper meme. They don’t think about you at all.
What happens if you commission three of British media’s brightest lights to make a three part drama? Uhhh well
That’s… that’s not how it works.
There is overwhelmingly support for an independent Scotland joining the EU, a fresh poll of voters in major European nations has found 🏴🇪🇺
Me after trying Sabra hummus for the first time.
I’m committed to living an anti-Zionist life.
WHY IS HE SO BAD AT THIS????
EXCL: Starmer insists he still believes in the sentiment behind his “island of strangers” warning - and that Britain must be an “integrated society”. PM clarifies he does not regret the speech, just that particular phrase because of Powell similarity. thesun.co.uk/news/35805873/…
Stop trying to make Starmer happen. It’s not going to happen.
Mean Girls 3 looks terrible
I’ve also written for the @spectator about Ross Greer and the Deliveroo-Waitrose alliance that forms the backbone of the Scottish Green vote. spectator.co.uk/article/why-ro…
But it’s cool, ‘cause you live in Brooklyn and it’s playing at the Lyric and you’ll just hop on the subway and oh no, you’ve just been shot and now you’re dead because it’s the 80s and the homicide rates would turn Mamdani into a back-the-blue Bill Bratton groupie.
They should do one where you have to live like it’s the 1980s. And get younger people who say they wish they lived in the 80s. They’re like “the movies were so good, I love Blade Runner!” but instead of just being able to watch Blade Runner when you want you have to hope it’s…
"Interesting. Have you tried pushing stuff off the edge of tables. That always calms me down"