Ann Moody

Nov 22, 2024 | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Ann Moody

Elon Musk appears to relish getting into verbal spats with senior political figures who do not share his world view. He is using his social media platform, X, to intimidate and harass them, while refusing to respect the laws and regulations of the countries they govern. Throughout 2023 Musk called Canadian PM Justin Trudeau a speech censor and an autocrat. He mocked Volodymyr Zelenskyy for relying on US aid and attacked Germany’s immigration policy as having “invasion vibes”.

Oct 14, 2024 | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Ann Moody

West Yorkshire Police has confirmed to Yorkshire Bylines that at 2.56pm on Saturday, 12 October they received a report of possible human organs being found by a member of the public in Middleton Park, Leeds. Officers and crime scene investigators attended the site of the reported incident only to find none other than Dame Andrea Jenkyns waiting for them, for she was the intrepid member of the public who summoned the police to this grisly scene.

Oct 10, 2024 | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Ann Moody

The Conservative Party leadership campaign reveals a party whose continued relevance exists largely in a virtual parallel universe on X (formerly Twitter), on Telegram or in Facebook groups where the people speak a distorted version of English. The new Tory lexicon contains a strange fusion of American alt-right jargon and Empire-era jingoism, combined with an obsessive phobia of North London and a newly found passion for a remote group of islands in the Indian Ocean.

Sep 29, 2024 | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Ann Moody

Robert Jenrick, in his bid to become the next leader of the Conservative Party, last week wrote an hysterical commentary in the Daily Mail claiming that “the very idea of England is at risk”. Confirming the party’s unassailable lurch to the right in recent years, the piece is unapologetically anti-immigration and he predictably puts the blame for a divided nation firmly on the shoulders of the “metropolitan establishment” whose attitudes and policies he blames for weakening English identity.

Jul 28, 2024 | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Ann Moody

Anyone would think the end of the world had arrived. France opened the Olympic Games, as all nations do, with a tribute to its culture and its past: the Enlightenment, controversial literature, sexual freedom and of course, the Revolution. And it’s this rebellious version of France – which has historically captured the imagination of an admiring world – that was showcased in the rain on Friday night.