Dear Mary: how can I unmask anonymous marathon sponsors?
Q. My son-in-law is running the Paris marathon to raise money for cystic fibrosis research and has sent out a…
Under the Italian sun, the insects are stirring
The sun was setting on the first day of spring and I felt unusually happy as I fed the donkey.…
The recklessness of William Wragg
Everyone makes mistakes, but they are seldom as monumental as William Wragg’s. The Tory MP has admitted handing over the…
Why is Putin still blaming Ukraine for the Moscow terror attack?
In the fortnight since four Isis gunmen stormed Crocus City Hall in the Moscow suburbs, Vladimir Putin has done his…
The plot to stop Marine Le Pen could backfire badly
At first, French elites haughtily dismissed the Rassemblement National (RN) and its voters. Then they were in denial about its…
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act may have done us all a favour
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act (HCA) has, by common agreement, been an unmitigated disaster. Less than a week old, there are…
Civil servants can’t down tools if they don’t like Israel
Britain in the nineteenth century pioneered the idea of the professional, impartial civil service independent of politics. In the twenty-first,…
Should the UK impose an arms embargo on Israel?
Yesterday, a letter from 600 legal experts, including four former Supreme Court judges, was published, arguing that the UK government should impose…
Will Netanyahu take Biden’s ceasefire ultimatum seriously?
When Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that he had a ‘good’ talk with American president Joe Biden on Thursday,…
France’s schools are succumbing to the Islamist threat
A 13-year-old Muslim girl was beaten unconscious outside her school gates in Montpellier in southern France on Tuesday. Her mother…
