Cynthia Weil and sixties pop
Sadly, Cynthia Weil died on 1 June, at the age of 82. With her main songwriting partner, husband Barry Mann,…
Tag: Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson and his hero from Jaws
One interesting feature of Dominic Cummings’ account of Boris Johnson’s reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic last year was his revelation…
Dorset Eye and conspiracies — how a leftwing website mistook satire for fact
If you spend much time on social media you can often come away with the impression that the entire left…
How did Boris Johnson get elected as mayor of London?
Writing in the Spectator, James Kirkup argues that, while Boris Johnson is today a Marmite figure whose hardline right-wing Brexiteer…
Boris Johnson and Islamophobia
Boris Johnson’s recent Telegraph article, in which he mocked niqab-wearing women by describing them as looking like letter boxes or…
Andrew Gilligan, Boris Johnson and the Iraq dossier
When Pamela Geller hailed Andrew Gilligan as a “superb investigative journalist” for his exposure of “Islamic supremacism” in Tower Hamlets,…