‘Putin killed my husband’: Navalny’s wife vows to fight on
Three days on from his death, the widow of Alexei Navalny today vowed to continue the work of her husband…
The welcome demise of the smug shop
Though I believe that people who use the phrase ‘retail therapy’ should probably have their voting rights removed, I do like shops…
The key difference between Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Putin
Following Alexei Navalny’s suspicious ‘sudden death’ in an Arctic prison camp last Friday, two scenes immediately come to mind featuring…
What did David Cameron expect when he lectured the Americans?
Lord Cameron, bless him, is back striding the world stage. He wrote an article last week in Washington’s inside-beltway website…
All my biases are conscious ones
These people are the lovechildren of Whigs and Leninists
Take the lollies away: defund UNRWA
A few weeks back, I observed a pretty sad scene down at the local shops. A mother was holding out…
Living in hope for peace
Why is there no peace in the Middle East? Why is there no progress towards the two-state solution, the ‘obvious’…
The solution to our government-induced malaise
Studying last month’s Davos meeting of the world’s (largely self-appointed) elites, Walter Russell Mead sees an inflection point. He says that when…
Alexandra Marshall Live S2E3: John Roskam on the Magna Carta, a tax revolt that gave us liberty!
Can tax reform set us free? Former Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs and now Senior Fellow, John…
Sunday round-up:‘Lay the blame at the door of Putin’ for Navalny death
Speaking to Trevor Phillips on Sky News this morning, Illegal Migration Minister Michael Tomlinson joined the foreign secretary in stating…
Pakistani democracy is on the brink
A senior official in Pakistan has publicly confessed to vote-rigging in the country’s general election earlier this month. It is…
How Iran radicalised Yemen’s most tolerant tribe
My family left Yemen for Israel in 1935, at a time when tens of thousands of Jews were still living…
Britain’s Jews aren’t safe
The explosion of hatred and extremism prompted by the October 7 massacre was never going to limit itself to the…
Solar ain’t gonna save us
Regardless of what I want, my phone keeps an eye out for trending stories in the world of Renewable energy.…
Did lockdowns cause more harm than good?
The question of whether lockdowns caused more problems than they solved will be picked over for years to come, even…
The torment of British Jews
When I was a child, learning about the Holocaust, I used to believe that what happened to the Jews in…
The Ada Lovelace myth
Lord Byron’s daughter Lady Ada Lovelace is almost as famous now as her father. An entire industry has sprung up…
Britain should resist French pressure for a joint defence plan
On Friday President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Volodymyr Zelensky to the Elysée with great fanfare. The Ukrainian president was in Paris…
Labour’s confusing ceasefire stance
If the Scottish Labour party are keen to get one message across at their Glasgow conference, it’s that they are…
Navalny’s cause of death changed to ‘sudden death syndrome’
How did Alexei Navalny die? The official version is that he collapsed after a walk in his Siberian prison. But…
Letitia James is helping Trump get re-elected
“Donald Trump may have authored the Art of the Deal,” said the New York attorney general Letitia James, doing her best…
Soulless medicine
A doctor wary of coming face-to-face with a patient is a real worry
In Russia, Navalny is already becoming an unperson
Newspapers across Britain and the democratic world are dominated by the news of the death – perhaps murder – of…
Why won’t Justin Welby call out Russia’s Patriarch Kirill?
Justin Welby has just visited Ukraine. While there he spoke clearly against the false religion that underlies Russia’s ideology, and…
Donald Trump ordered to pay $350 million in fraud case
Donald Trump may be spending much of his time complaining that Nato members aren’t paying their bills, but he has…
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