Gavin Williamson: Brexitland Rules the Waves
- January 06, 2019
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- Matt
In the final pages of the Beagle diaries, Charles Darwin celebrated the incorporation of Australia and other British colonies into ‘ a grand centre of civilization’ and declared approvingly:
It is impossible for an Englishman to behold these distant colonies, without a high pride and satisfaction. To hoist the British flag seems to draw as a...
Jeremy Hunt’s Chain of Fools
- January 04, 2019
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- Matt
As a schoolboy studying for my History O’Level, I once memorized the British Foreign Secretary George Canning’s famous 1826 dictum: ‘I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.’
At the time I was never exactly sure what it meant, but I understood that it had something to do with the ‘informal...
Savile Country
- June 30, 2014
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- Matt
The more we learn about the horrendous crimes committted by the creature that was Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile, the more it becomes clear that the former ‘national treasure’ was one of the most prolific and psychopathic sexual predators in British history – a man without a shred of pity, compassion or human empathy. ...
Jonathan Freedland’s Olympic Kumbaya
- July 28, 2012
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- Matt
For some time now Jonathan Freedland has been The Guardian‘s state-of-the-nation zeitgeist guy, with a trusted ability to churn out fluffy sentimental prose on national occasions, from which analysis and meaning are generally absent.
Yesterday he outdid himself with nearly three pages of stunning claptrap on the Olympic Games, culminating in these startlingly idiotic observations:
Seven years...
Rupert Murdoch’s Little Shop of Horrors
- April 26, 2012
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- Matt
Facing commercial disaster and the prospect of a criminal investigation in the United States, the carnivorous plant that is News International is in deep trouble, and the master florist is coming out fighting in an attempt to save his creation. Yesterday Rupert Murdoch’s testimony at the Leveson Inquiry was very different from...
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