Current Affairs
The Great Myth of the Fleeing Billionaires
We’ve all heard the warning, usually whispered in trembling tones by certain newspapers or think tanks: “Careful now… if we tax the rich, they’ll all leave!” Oh no, not that. Imagine the tragedy: private jets queuing on the runway, chauffeurs sobbing at Heathrow, and a nationwide shortage of superyacht berths. Britain would never recover. Except, of course, it would. This myth that the super-rich will pack their bags the ...
Trump’s Middle East Peace Deal – A Plan So Vague It Could Mean Anything
Donald Trump’s much-trumpeted Middle East peace deal is, we are told, “historic.” You’d think from the way it was announced that he’d just solved the riddle of the Sphinx and invented world harmony before lunch. In reality, it was more of a rough sketch than a plan - the kind of thing you might draw on a fag packet after your fifth pint of Old Thumper with Mad Mick down at The Red Lion. Polite Clap To be fair, any attempt to ...
The Pandemic’s Members-Only Club
Mone & Barrowman: Headliners in a Rotten Circus Baroness Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman are the glittering billboard of Covid corruption. They set up PPE Medpro in May 2020, and on the very same day it was incorporated, they landed a contract worth £122 million. Not bad for a company that didn’t exist the week before. Of course, the gowns were unusable, the contracts collapsed, and now the High Court wants the money back. Crooks, ...
OUTRAGE IN LONDON: MIGRANT SEEN WRESTLING SWAN BEFORE WALTZING INTO THE RITZ
By a Maily Expressgraph Correspondent It was a scene straight out of a dystopian nightmare. On a crisp autumn afternoon in St James’s Park, horrified onlookers claim they saw a migrant brazenly wrestle a swan to the ground before casually strolling through London with the bloody carcass tucked under his arm. Fierce Fight Passers-by reported the bird put up a fierce fight. “Swans don’t go quietly,” one witness told us. “But ...
Patriotism Is Fun — Until the Nationalists Spoil It
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with patriotism, especially when it comes to sport. In fact, I believe it’s one of the best parts of it. Flags in windows, anthems sung badly, pints flying across the pub in the last minute — it’s daft, partisan and forgivable fun. For a short while, I reckon we’re all on the same team, and it feels good. Sport gives us that rare excuse to lose ourselves in tribalism without any real harm being ...