September rolls around again, and as it does so, the children here in England return back to school to learn all about reading, writing, arithmetic, and how to hate their own country. As a former English teacher in a U.K. high school myself, this time of year often has me reflecting upon how, ...
The spreadsheet-worshippers of Hollywood have calculated the No. 1 blockbuster hit of this summer to have been the new CGI mega-sequel Jurassic World: Yet Another One, which would seem to have been about some dinosaurs on an island eating people again. To celebrate the film’s release, an essay ...
In England, a popular saying has always gone, “If you want to know the time, ask a policeman.” The aphorism has today been extended to further read, “Because a policeman is the only one safe from getting his watch stolen in the country right now.” Shian Johnson is a 26-year-old negroid. He ...
Persistent rumor has it that, during an unbroadcast(able) edition of 1980s U.K. TV quiz show Family Fortunes (Family Feud in the U.S.), when asked by the host to “Name a dangerous race,” one contestant answered, “The Arabs,” instead of Le Mans or the Paris-Dakar Rally, as intended. You can ...
As someone who hates cooking, the only oven I’ve ever truly been interested in is the one Sylvia Plath stuck her head inside back in the ’60s. Another lady who could do with cooking her own head at gas mark 7 is Nadiya Hussain, the alleged U.K. “national treasure” and TV chef who shot to ...
I once considered pitching publishers a book called 101 Things That Are Now Suddenly Gay, cataloguing the increasing number of completely non-gay things that fanatical homos now claim are gay after all, from ball bearings to hovercraft, upon no rational basis whatsoever. Yet I have already been ...
If black people were consumer products, they’d have to ban them. Here in Health-and-Safety Britain, a single baby pokes their eye out on a loose pin on a particular brand of cheaply made Taiwanese teddy bear, and they’re pulled from shelves and have a total import prohibition slapped on them ...
My nearest Giant Catholic House of God, the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King in the northwest English city of Liverpool, has just received Grade-I Listed Status from the U.K. government as a piece of nationally notable architecture; simply put, it means you can’t just knock it down and ...
Last week saw the twentieth anniversary of the 7/7 bombings in London, when 52 people were killed and more than 700 injured by explosives placed on buses and Tube trains by...oh...someone or other, it was all so long ago now. Evidently the authorities had forgotten themselves too, to judge by all ...
