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The right must unite
I mentioned here recently that to my mind Boris Johnson bears a fairish similarity to Dr Faustus, as Christopher Marlowe…
I’m taking mental notes for my old age
I know straight away, from the look on my friend Alice’s face, whether it’s a ‘bad carer’ day. Five years…
My message for Columbia’s protesting students
There are several frustrating things about American college campuses, just one of which is the sheer volume of column inches…
What will Europe look like in the future?
This year, several articles in mainstream papers have sounded the alarm that the global human fertility rate will soon cross…
Inside Labour’s fight with the unions
By the end of the year, Britain may be one of the few countries in the democratic world where the…
Obesity isn’t an ‘illness’
About 20 years ago, Burger King stopped selling its magnificent Double Mushroom Swiss burger, an act of corporate vandalism matched…
Are ultra-processed foods really so bad?
Last week saw a flurry of media reports, of whose headlines one of the worst preceded one of the best…
Will Labour fall into the migration trap?
Brexit was the issue that won the last general election for the Tories but botching it may well lose them…
Why is it so hard to be a Christian in public life?
Is it any longer acceptable to be a Christian? News reaches me of a strange case involving the Liberal Democrat…
The asexual revolution
Who could have foreseen that half a century after the sexual revolution we’d be facing its exact opposite: an asexual…
Be more tiger mum!
‘What’s it to do with me if your boyfriend wants to break up with you? Or if you cried, or…
Save us from the plague of plastic tree protectors
Can nothing protect us from a plague of plastic tree protectors? They’ve descended on us like locusts, covering our hills,…
The battle of the pollsters
There was plenty for Rishi Sunak and his cabinet to discuss on Tuesday morning. The Conservatives had lost half of…
In defence of my friend Kevin Spacey
I am looking for a way to get £80,000. The sum would come in handy. I could put it towards…
I hate hate speech laws
I originally intended to observe that American universities’ anti-Israel protestors and Hamas terrorists deserve each other, because they’ve so much…
Migration reality is biting in Ireland
Iwas trying to work out which event gave me a greater sense of euphoria and contentment – the fall of…
Why send children to therapy?
I’ve been reading a book by the American journalist Abigail Shrier – Bad Therapy – which describes just how demented…
Following Napoleon: my exile in St Helena
St Helena In an attempt to escape from the world, I have come with friends to St Helena. It is quite…
Donating to charity is too easy
It’s been a torrid few weeks for anyone who knows anyone who was running in the London Marathon. In have…
Kemi and Gove’s Cabinet clash on Rwanda
When the Rwanda Bill had its second reading in the House of Commons just before Christmas, there was a revolt…
It rarely pays to be ahead of your time
Following the release of the Cass report deprecating NHS ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors as reliant on rubbish medical research, the…
Why the Cass report won’t change a thing
The Liberal Democrat candidate in the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency recently released a video clip of herself sitting…
The triumph of Katharine Birbalsingh
There are two questions that need to be asked of any society: what is it that is going wrong; and…
