Jimmy Nicholls

1 week ago | thecritic.co.uk | Jimmy Nicholls

New proposals to completely decriminalise abortion are immoral It’s a peculiar thing for a country that carries out a quarter of a million abortions a year to seriously field claims that women’s ability to terminate their pregnancies is under grave threat. But in recent years abortion proponents have repeatedly warned women’s rights are in jeopardy, threatened by Victorian abortion laws. As in much of British political life, you can blame the Americans.

2 weeks ago | capx.co | Jimmy Nicholls

19 May 2025 @jdenicholls Graffiti in protest of upcoming festivals in Brockwell Park. Photo: Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty ImagesGraffiti in protest of upcoming festivals in Brockwell Park.

3 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Jimmy Nicholls

‘Cash is king,’ grinned the bartender as he handed me two pints of dry cider at a music festival I attended several summers ago. Since I’d paid in cold, hard cash, he’d agreed to a discount suspiciously in line with VAT. With nearby food vendors struggling to connect their payment terminals to the internet and fellow festival-goers queuing for cash, I gladly handed over the tenner and glugged down the goods.

3 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Jimmy Nicholls

‘Cash is king,’ grinned the bartender as he handed me two pints of dry cider at a music festival I attended several summers ago. Since I’d paid in cold, hard cash, he’d agreed to a discount suspiciously in line with VAT. With nearby food vendors struggling to connect their payment terminals to the internet and fellow festival-goers queuing for cash, I gladly handed over the tenner and glugged down the goods. Such a bargain is not uncommon.

1 month ago | thecritic.co.uk | Jimmy Nicholls

Why do child benefits stop at a point lower than our replacement rate? Pity Rachel Reeves. Having hailed herself as the glass-smashing first female chancellor of the UK, the proud comprehensive school girl once derided as “boring, snoring” by a Newsnight editor is now tasked with disappointing party faithfuls over as many fiscal measures as possible before the next reckoning with the electorate.