I admire Sarah Palin, I admire Fox News and I admire the American right. There, I’ve said it. They bring skill, energy and above all a degree of daring to the US political scene that no other source can match. Consider some examples. On Fox News, presenter Glenn Beck has run a TV feature called […]
Author Jude Collins
Hats off to Sarah. AND Fox News.
I admire Sarah Palin, I admire Fox News and I admire the American right. There, I’ve said it. They bring skill, energy and above all a degree of daring to the US political scene that no other source can match. Consider some examples. On Fox News, presenter Glenn Beck has run a TV feature called […]
Miriam O’Reilly: older but richer
I’m happy for Miriam O’Reilly this morning, even though I am helping fund her happiness. She’s just had a tribunal rule that the BBC was guilty of ageism when it gave her the boot from its big rural affairs progamme ‘Countryfile’. She’s likely to get a six-figure damages pay-out. Bully for her. I know from […]
Miriam O’Reilly: older but richer
I’m happy for Miriam O’Reilly this morning, even though I am helping fund her happiness. She’s just had a tribunal rule that the BBC was guilty of ageism when it gave her the boot from its big rural affairs progamme ‘Countryfile’. She’s likely to get a six-figure damages pay-out. Bully for her. I know from […]
Death in Arizona and Mauritius
Why did Christina-Taylor Green die? Why did Michaela Harte die? Christina-Taylor Green was nine years old and was one of six people killed on Saturday in the attack that left Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords critically injured. Michaela Harte was twenty-seven years old, the daughter of Tyrone manager Mickey Harte. She was strangled to death in […]
Death in Arizona and Mauritius
Why did Christina-Taylor Green die? Why did Michaela Harte die? Christina-Taylor Green was nine years old and was one of six people killed on Saturday in the attack that left Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords critically injured. Michaela Harte was twenty-seven years old, the daughter of Tyrone manager Mickey Harte. She was strangled to death in […]
Mark Twain and the literary thugs
OK, that’s it. I never thought I’d live to hear the cliché slither from my lips but the occasion calls for it: this is political correctness gone mad. What is? The new edition of Mark Twain’s wonderful novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that’s what. In it, the word ‘nigger’ occurs over a hundred times, […]
Mark Twain and the literary thugs
OK, that’s it. I never thought I’d live to hear the cliché slither from my lips but the occasion calls for it: this is political correctness gone mad. What is? The new edition of Mark Twain’s wonderful novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that’s what. In it, the word ‘nigger’ occurs over a hundred times, […]
Too good to be true?
Denis Bradley is a nice man. Any time I’ve met him he’s been pleasant, anyone who knows him speaks highly of his integrity. So it’s with some reluctance that I say he was talking tripe in the VO this morning. The subject of his column was political selflessness. Only twice in his life, he said, […]
Too good to be true?
Denis Bradley is a nice man. Any time I’ve met him he’s been pleasant, anyone who knows him speaks highly of his integrity. So it’s with some reluctance that I say he was talking tripe in the VO this morning. The subject of his column was political selflessness. Only twice in his life, he said, […]