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What the Hell is “The West”?

What the Hell is “The West”?

Being recently stuck for many hours in an exceedingly narrow space on a plane headed...

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Welfare Fraud: Billions for Zeros

Welfare Fraud: Billions for Zeros

While British troops gallantly and pointlessly put themselves in peril’s way in...

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England’s Surrogate Religion

England’s Surrogate Religion

It is sometimes said that football is like a religion to the English. As the legendary...

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A Tale of Two Etonians

A Tale of Two Etonians

They are both Conservative politicians and both Etonians of the same vintage, yet they...

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A Nightmare of Olympic Proportions

A Nightmare of Olympic Proportions

The omens were bad from the beginning. The day after the IOC awarded the 2012 Olympics...

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When Chav Mums Go Viral

When Chav Mums Go Viral

The most surprising news story in recent weeks was that of Emma West, a young lady of...

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Rotten From the Top Down

Rotten From the Top Down

Although the phrase is often misattributed to Antonio Gramsci, it was the Marxist creep...

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England’s Welfare Nomads

England’s Welfare Nomads

I just flew back from England, and boy are my arms tired of the way their middle class...

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Making Sense and Nonsense of the Riots

Making Sense and Nonsense of the Riots

It all started, says Darcus Howe, as  an insurrection of a generation of poor,...

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The Trouble With Blacks

The Trouble With Blacks

“I’m not a racist, but…” It is how most conversations with a Londoner start...

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The Tournaments of Tottenham

The Tournaments of Tottenham

In 1653, the year Cromwell became Lord Protector of England, there appeared the first...

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You Are Now Entering…The Shariah Zone

You Are Now Entering…The Shariah Zone

As the world struggles to make sense of Anders Breivik’s ugly, senseless slaughter...

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A Whiff of Protest

A Whiff of Protest

Ego olere ergo sum. (I stink, therefore I am.) Such could be the motto of the...

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Fuck the Public Sector

Fuck the Public Sector

If one were to—hypothetically—shoot every other public-sector worker in the back of...

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