William Dove

Amazon workers from over 20 countries are planning to take action against the online retail giant on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the two biggest online shopping days of the year.

Nov 28, 2024

Recent figures suggest that Britain is the only major economy to experience a fall in its employment rate in the last five years.

Nov 27, 2024

A French court hearing into the 2020 murder of Samuel Paty has heard that claims of Islamophobia against the history teacher were based on a pack of lies originating with a Muslim schoolgirl.

Nov 27, 2024

Elon Musk has continued his war of words with UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, by apparently throwing his support behind an online petition calling for a new general election.

Nov 25, 2024

Star Wars: The Force Awakens' disappointment is that it could have been a great effort but it isn't.

Dec 21, 2015

If Corbyn's views are so unacceptable, why has he felt at home in the Labour party for decades?

Aug 19, 2015

When I saw our former Prime Minister Gordon Brown had said Britain outside the EU would be like North Korea, I felt sorry for the poor man.

Mar 10, 2015

The greatest achievement of the last Labour government was arguably the role it played in turning Britain into a more tolerant place for minorities. Yet the latest plan by Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt to "eradicate homophobic bullying" is lazy and wrong in its thinking.

Feb 03, 2015

A Tolkien fan gives his review of The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies

Dec 15, 2014

The Scottish political class appears to believe in the old stereotype of Scots being tight-fisted misers.

Sep 03, 2014

It's the 60th anniversary of the publication of The Fellowship of the Ring, part one of JRR Tolkien's masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings.

Jul 28, 2014

The Office of Tony Blair has responded to a call for him to be sacked as Middle East peace envoy by claiming that it has been made by "an alliance of hard right and hard left views". Given that Ken Livingstone and George Galloway are amongst those demanding his head it is neither surprising nor unfair of Mr Blair to point out that these are the usual suspects.

Jun 24, 2014

Every now and then we get inevitable complaints that Her Majesty the Queen and the Royal Family are the nation's most successful benefits scroungers.

Jan 28, 2014

Films will always be different to the books they're based on.

Dec 17, 2013

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug has hit the cinemas. What can we expect in part three next year, There and Back Again?

Dec 17, 2013

As one of the few people who actually liked the first film of The Hobbit Trilogy, An Unexpected Journey, you would think that a review of the second instalment, The Desolation of Smaug, would be glowing. Sadly I must report that I was disappointed and baffled.

Dec 16, 2013

Feminism is probably the most successful political and social movement of the last one hundred years. Not only does nearly everyone want to claim the mantle of feminist, from Harriet Harman and Polly Toynbee to Simon Heffer and Peter Hitchens, but women are now more or less as free as men to pursue whatever aims in life they wish.

Sep 13, 2013

It's finally happened. The Cult of David Miliband is finally on its way out along with the man himself. His goodbye letter in the New Statesman has been greeted with nice dose of scepticism and criticism whereas three years ago the reaction would have been adulation and astonishment at his great insight.

Aug 09, 2013

Yesterday Dr Timothy Stanley of the Telegraph got into lukewarm water after suggesting that David Cameron should turn his attention away from porn and instead ban Warhammer. Not long after poor Dr Stanley was besieged in the comments by players who could not quite comprehend that his piece was a bit of fun, rather than a serious policy proposal.

Jul 24, 2013

In the superb 1927 silent film "Napoleon", by French director Abel Gance, there is a curious moment when the Corsican hero of the film, portrayed by Albert Dieudonné, muses prophetically that one day Europe will be united by neither cannon nor cavalry charge but by treaties and pieces of paper.

May 21, 2013

Now that yet another band of men have been found guilty of the most appalling sexual crimes against young girls we are already being treated to discussions as to whether there is a problem with certain parts of the Muslim community in this country.

May 15, 2013

It's not news that Margaret Thatcher was not universally loved by the nation, nor is it a revelation that some on the left have been dribbling with desire at the thought of her death.

Apr 19, 2013

Great Britain has a long and glorious tradition of arming and bankrolling groups and regimes to fight the good fight on our behalf.

Mar 07, 2013

It's been decades since the Labour Party supported exit from the European Union but after David Cameron's speech last week might a Labour win in 2015 actually be the best hope of Britain leaving the EU?

Jan 29, 2013

Nick Clegg is finally on the verge of doing something impressive by taking on a 30 minute call-in show each week on LBC.

Jan 07, 2013

My fears that The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey would be a disappointment were based on a number of rather negative and griping reviews. Fortunately, those reviews were wrong. The Hobbit is, in a word, brilliant.

Dec 17, 2012

Homophobia and Islamophobia are apparently no longer tolerated by the Associated Press. Both words should be used sparingly by reporters as they suggest a mental disability on the part of those labelled as "homophobes" or "Islamophobes".

Nov 28, 2012

Last week the Guardian caused a minor stir after it published a cartoon by Steve Bell that was condemned by some as being anti-Semitic. As if determined to court such accusations, the Guardian has now published an article by a representative of Hamas on its online Comment is Free page.

Nov 19, 2012

Peter Hitchens book, The War We Never Fought: The British Establishment's Surrender to Drugs, is not what you might expect.

Oct 22, 2012