Posts by Philip Patrick
Thursday, 11 April 2019
How to cope with the death of Brexit
Now and again, when overcome with the kind of weltschmerz that all too easily afflicts men in the 45 –..
By Philip Patrick
Monday, 1 April 2019
What I learned on the March to Leave
About halfway through the March for Leave last Friday, somewhere in Chelsea, an elderly couple of middle-eastern descent, wearing traditional..
By Philip Patrick
Friday, 29 March 2019
Keep Wagner away from Regietheater directors who don't care about opera
My absolutely least favourite phrase in any language is Regietheater. It even beats out People’s Vote for causing my heart..
By Philip Patrick
Thursday, 28 March 2019
Remainers must stop their generation blame game
I have been finding BBC’s Question Time disorientating lately. The location changes, as do the accents, clothes and haircuts of..
By Philip Patrick
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
Why MPs were right to reject May's deal
Aargh! That’s it, I’ve had it. I give up. No, not on Brexit, there’s still the faintest glimmer of a..
By Philip Patrick
Friday, 1 March 2019
Dundee's V&A is a symbol of a city on the up
I am ashamed to confess that in my four years at St. Andrews university I pretty much snubbed nearby Dundee...
By Philip Patrick
Friday, 22 February 2019
Jussie Smollet, fake hate, and the journalism of assertion
I have an idea for a film: there’s a young black actor in a hit TV show who hears a..
By Philip Patrick
Monday, 4 February 2019
Why the British really voted for Brexit - they rumbled the EU
‘Judge a man by his questions, rather than his answers’, said the great Voltaire. I first came across this quote..
By Philip Patrick
Thursday, 24 January 2019
Why a great country like Japan gets such boring Prime Ministers
They used to say Italy was the most democratic country in the world – everyone got to be Prime Minister...
By Philip Patrick