Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay: Thought the BBC Was Red, While He Was Busy Turning into a Nazi!
Accusing the BBC of bias is practically a British pastime at the moment. But long before today’s culture warriors started foaming at the mouth about “wokeness”, one man was already insisting the Beeb was a covert outpost of Marxism. His name was Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay, and he took things so far to the right that he eventually ended up behind a barbed-wire fence courtesy of His Majesty’s Government. Ramsay was a Scottish ...
If Everyone’s Annoyed, the BBC Must Be Doing Something Right
The BBC doesn’t always say what we want to hear. Sometimes it frustrates us, sometimes it seems to miss the point, and sometimes it leaves us shouting at the television like we’re auditioning for Question Time. But perhaps that’s exactly the point. If the BBC manages to annoy people from the left, the right, and especially the far right, then it’s probably doing something right. In an age of social media hysteria and tribal politics, ...
Kent Man Breaks UK Record for Bringing Up Immigrants in Pub Conversation
A Kent man has made history after mentioning immigrants a record-breaking 0.7 seconds into a pub conversation. Local legend Vinny Butcher, 58, set the new benchmark at The Jolly Bricklayer in Sevenoaks on Thursday evening after fellow drinker Jack Peterson innocently walked in and said, “What a lovely day.” Without missing a beat—or even exhaling—Butcher fired back: “For boat people, maybe.” It’s a Record! Pub ...
Tax Is for Peasants
The country is apparently on fire again. Not literally this time, though give it a few weeks of underfunded fire brigades and we might get there. This week it’s train stabbings, prisoners released by mistake, and yet another police officer in court for something grim. The government will tell you these are isolated incidents. Just bad luck. A blip. But they are all symptoms of the same disease: austerity. The Price of Cutting Everythi...
Finding the Right Shade of Racism
Breakfast and Bigotry This “brown people in adverts” outrage is properly mad, isn’t it? Let’s be clear, what Sarah Pochin said was racist. Anyone who isn’t racist wouldn’t be triggered by seeing brown people eating cornflakes. It’s not complex sociology, it’s breakfast. But of course, along comes Farage, the people’s demagogue, to tell us we’ve all “taken it out of context.” You see, according to Nigel, if you ...