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The silent evil

‘The Steeple Times’ highlights a shadowy evil lurking in our midst in Europe: Stille Hilfe   Whilst ISIS destroying world heritage sites in Syria is truly appalling, we should also realise that another form of evil...

Maxing the council

A £1.15 million ex-council flat sums up just how bonkers the Chelsea property market truly is   They say: “Buy the worst house in the best street” but when that costs £1.15 million, you know something...

Carswell’s not short of sense

Matthew Steeples salutes the independence of Douglas Carswell MP and praises his having rejected Nigel Farage’s demand that he take £650,000 in “Short money”   When Douglas Carswell MP defected to UKIP in 2014, many Conservatives were disappointed...

The grockles of K&C

Survey of locations with the highest percentage of second homes gives indication as to why so many long-established businesses are closing down in Kensington and Chelsea; in some streets in the borough second home...

Britain has spoken

The lights need not be turned out after Britain rejected Labour and the Liberal Democrats   Nick Clegg declared it had been a “cruel and punishing night” for the Liberal Democrats whilst Labour’s Ed Miliband’s pledge...

Let’s not have to turn out the lights

‘The Steeple Times’ reimagines ‘The Sun’s’ 1992 election winning front page and urges readers to vote Conservative   In 1992, The Sun is credited with turning John Major into a winner when they ran a front page carrying...

A bind for Bindi

Matthew Steeples details his experiences with the trolls supporting Rolf Harris as his daughter, Bindi Nicholls, strangely contradicts herself on the Internet in a rant in support of this convicted paedophile   It is perfectly legitimate...

Something has to change

Matthew Steeples suggests that the way in which allegations of sexual offences are investigated in Britain needs to change   On Friday, a friend of mine answered bail in relation to a false allegation of sexual...

The appeal of Assange

As Julian Assange is granted the right to appeal against an arrest warrant for an alleged rape, Matthew Steeples examines the high profile individuals who have visited him during his time at the Embassy of Ecuador...

Wally of the Week: Keith Vaz

It is time that the Labour politician Keith Vaz asked himself some questions about his role in protecting the alleged paedophile Lord Janner   Keith Vaz is a politician continually linked with controversy and in today’s...

Prosecute the protectors

Those who have allowed Lord Janner to escape prosecution should take responsibility for their failures and those who have protected him should themselves be prosecuted   Lord Janner was capable of writing a letter to protect his...

Saluting Sol

Sol Campbell should be saluted for participating in the Operation Black Vote campaign to encourage minorities to register to vote   “If you don’t register to vote, you’re taking the colour out of Britain”, suggested Sol...

Watson’s COO

Matthew Steeples reports on the CNET founder Halsey Minor having discovered a new president and Chief Operating Officer (COO) for his latest venture, Bitreserve, via ‘The Steeple Times’   The influence of The Steeple Times goes a...

Keep up the conversation

As A.A. Gill laments the supposed death of phone calls, Matthew Steeples calls on readers to keep up the conversation   In this month’s Vanity Fair, A.A. Gill argues that “nobody talks on the telephone anymore” and that...

Jeremy Clarkson to defect to SKY?

Matthew Steeples suggests Rupert Murdoch might provide the key to the next chapter in Jeremy Clarkson’s turbulent life   I spotted someone looking remarkably like Rupert Murdoch arriving in Chelsea Harbour in a Bentley last week....

Handling anonymity

Matthew Steeples suggests that it is time for the courts and press to consider anonymity in reporting sensitive cases more carefully   In London last week, many titles published reports about the inquest into the suicide...

Picture of the Week: Middleton and Mills

Matthew Steeples suggests Pippa Middleton deserves to be pitied after being pictured with Heather Mills   I truly pity Pippa Middleton after she was pictured with Heather Mills this week. My own experience with this self-obsessed...

Pay politicians properly

Bizarrely Adam Afriyie is right to advocate Members of Parliament being paid the not so insubstantial sum of £225,000 per annum   A Conservative MP named Adam Afriyie recently claimed that Members of Parliament should be...

Bring back Clarkson

The BBC are wrong to have suspended Jeremy Clarkson   Jeremy Clarkson might be a bit of a buffoon and that he hangs around with Rebekah Brooks and David Cameron is perhaps a little grating to...

Review: Farage Fans & UKIP Lovers

Matthew Steeples reviews a Channel 5 documentary about UKIP supporters   On Wednesday night, Channel 5 showed a documentary about UKIP supporters. It was nothing other than predictable.   Beginning with a Folkestone fisherman who lamented how Europe...

The agony of abuse

Matthew Steeples calls upon Theresa May to take allegations of abuse more seriously in the wake of further accusations against Sir Cliff Richard   On a day when reports regarding the monstrous activities of the late...

Head & Shoulders

Matthew Steeples argues that Sir Malcolm Rifkind and his breed should be consigned to ‘politics past’   In 2003, I attended an event at a large house in Kensington’s Phillimore Gardens. At the gathering Sir Malcolm...

Dishonoured

As Rolf Harris loses his Australian honours, Matthew Steeples asks: “Why has this paedophile still got his CBE?”   Rolf Harris has rightly just been stripped of his Officer and Member of the Order of Australia honours...

Organic policing

Matthew Steeples argues that the British public should demand an end to Theresa May’s policy of running policing from organic stores   Recently, I reported an incident to the police. It concerned a bizarre and slightly...

Drunk-derground

As London Underground workers vote to go on strike in support of a colleague who failed two alcohol breath tests, Matthew Steeples argues that it is time to curtail the rights of essential service...

The wrong Lane?

Matthew Steeples asks: “Is the story of the ‘middle class Heathrow homeless couple’ all that it seems?”   Yesterday, after the Mail Online featured a middle-class couple “forced” to sleep at Heathrow Airport, over 470 people...

Don’t call us

Theresa May tells the public not to call the police   Our home secretary Theresa May is lucky enough to have full-time police protection but the rest of us will now have to put up with...

Do it for Brittan

In the wake of Leon Brittan’s death, Theresa May needs to act and act quickly   Last week, we lamented how the alleged victims of the alleged paedophile John Stingemore have been left without the chance...

Evading justice

As alleged paedophile John Stingemore mysteriously dies, it is about time Theresa May finally acted over historic abuse allegations   With the news that John Stingemore, a former children’s home manager accused of historic sex abuse,...

Wally of the Week: Steve Emerson

‘Fox News’ terror expert Steve Emerson bizarrely claims Birmingham is “totally Muslim” and that religious police squads roam the streets of London and “seriously wound” people in non-Muslim dress   Those who make generalisations generally come...

Picture of the Week: The power of the pencil

Dutch political cartoonist Ruben L. Oppenheimer reacted to Wednesday’s Paris massacre with a cartoon that illustrates the power of the pencil   In response to the cowardly actions of the armed gunmen who attacked the satirical French...

Money and language

Matthew Steeples suggests that the true root of ‘Andrew-gate’ is money and language   Though I think it best to leave the Mail Online and others to rake over the allegations of what Prince Andrew may...