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Wednesday 18 December 2024
18/12/2024

Author name: Keith Hann

The worst form of government

There are two good things to be said about the current uninspiring lightweight bout between Mr Sunak and that parfit gentil knight Sir Keir Starmer.  First, it is a marked improvement on the suicidally depressing choice between the forgetful geriatric Democrat and the felonious narcissist Republican across the Atlantic.  And secondly — but even more …

Mourning the decline of the deaths column

Some people start reading their paper on the front page, others at the back for the sport. But I am one of those who has always turned first to the ‘matches, hatches and despatches’ announcements, with my focus progressing through the decades from the engagements and marriages of my contemporaries to the births of their …

Tory Looney Tunes no longer amuse me

The plight of the Conservative Party increasingly resembles that of the hapless cartoon character Wile E. Coyote. Just like him, the Tories keep devising cunning new plans to arrest the remorseless progress of Road Runner Keir Starmer. But we all know the Acme anvil they have just suspended from a rocket-powered kite is about 10 …

A bit of detective work

When Brian Aitken kindly invited me to write an occasional column for The QT, I naturally started to think about what subjects I should write about. He told me about the issues and features The QT would focus on, things that are often not covered by the traditional media whose online coverage is dictated by …

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