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Why isn’t eating meat as bad as bestiality?
So what I’ve found myself wondering over the festive period, again and again, is whether it would ever be OK…
Those bitcoin weirdos might just be right
Here’s a thought to kindle a lovely warm glow of smugness and schadenfreude as we enter a new year: you…
Charles Moore's notes: Why Ireland fears Scottish independence
In Dublin, where I am writing this column, people are watching the Scottish referendum campaign more closely than in London.…
James Forsyth: Insurgents are remaking British politics
Next year will decide the fate of the United Kingdom. The Scottish independence referendum on the 18th of September could…
Rod Liddle: Gordon Brown has vanished. Why?
It may come as a grave surprise to you that, when it was offered as a prize in a charity…
Matthew Parris: Logically, bitcoin fans should love the euro. Why don't they?
Bitcoins have been in the news, after a story about an unfortunate fellow who jettisoned his computer’s hard drive that…
James Delingpole: In defence of cocaine
‘Is anyone here even remotely shocked that Nigella Lawson has done cocaine?’ I asked. Everyone shook their heads. Well of…
Hugo Rifkind: Why did I agree to appear on University Challenge?
The worst thing about going on University Challenge, I now know, is when you interrupt a question and get the…
Martin Vander Weyer: How many times must we save the City?
Top of my Christmas reading pile is Saving the City by Richard Roberts, a new account of the largely forgotten…
Why did I agree to appear on University Challenge?
The worst thing about going on University Challenge, I now know, is when you interrupt a question and get the…
Eat, drink, snort and be merry
‘Is anyone here even remotely shocked that Nigella Lawson has done cocaine?’ I asked. Everyone shook their heads. Well of…
If you love gold, shouldn’t you love the euro too?
Bitcoins have been in the news, after a story about an unfortunate fellow who jettisoned his computer’s hard drive that…
Mandarins routinely take Fridays off and sometimes can't spell ministers' names. Why does this go on?
It’s a fact that most ministers are most scared, not of their political rivals but of their civil servants. Ministers…
Charles Moore: What would we call what's left of the country if Scotland leaves? Obviously Former UK (FUK) won't do...
Boris Johnson’s Margaret Thatcher Lecture to the Centre for Policy Studies attracted attention for its remarks about IQ, but the…
Is it racist to want a high street where you can understand the shop signs?
A very useful feature in the Daily Telegraph informs me of the best 20 towns in Britain ‘for Christmas’. Number…
Delingpole: Here's what I learnt from the extinction of the golden toad — ecologists have sold out to the religion of global warming
When I was a child — in the days before it became illegal under Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and…
Hugo Rifkind: Are those who criticise Boris for his IQ remarks just being thick?
It’s funny, really, because most of the time I think that my university education was a bit of a waste.…
I don’t know if Boris was right about IQ. But I’m sure his critics are being thick
It’s funny, really, because most of the time I think that my university education was a bit of a waste.…
The golden toad really is a climate change icon (just not in the way you think)
When I was a child — in the days before it became illegal under Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and…
Filming Bono, fighting Balls - how George Osborne's preparing for his autumn statement
James Forsyth and Isabel Hardman discuss George Osborne’s 2013 Autumn statement: [audioboo url=”https://audioboo.fm/boos/1763353-isabel-hardman-and-james-forsyth-discuss-george-osborne-s-autumn-statement”][/audioboo] Next week’s autumn statement looks at first…
Matthew Parris: The secret Australia - and why I love it
Nations seek their souls in the strangest places. We English, for instance, have illustrated ourselves to the world and to…
Lord Bamford on why JCB is staying independent
‘If I can’t see a factory from up here,’ I mutter to myself, throwing the car round an uphill bend…
A corner of Australia that is forever Bournemouth
Nations seek their souls in the strangest places. We English, for instance, have illustrated ourselves to the world and to…
How the Blair-Brown tussle influences the top Tory and Labour partnerships
Listen to James Forsyth discuss the tale of two political partnerships: [audioboo url=”http://audioboo.fm/boos/1746142-james-forsyth-on-david-george-and-ed-ed”/] Six and a half years after Gordon…
Charles Moore's notes: Peston and co would have done more Co-op digging if the Tories had been involved
There has naturally been plenty of unfavourable comment on how the Revd Paul Flowers, the ‘crystal Methodist’, was allowed by…
