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Andy Burnham’s fatal show of weakness on slavery reparations
It is commonly understood that when dealing with those who wish to harm or exploit you, that you never show…
The celebrity accused of sexual misconduct must be unmasked
PPT is what he goes by. That’s all we’re currently allowed to call a well-known man accused of using his celebrity status…
Tories tool up for economy scrap
One of the messages which Kemi Badenoch hoped to convey in her recent reshuffle was about the thinking that she…
Sunday shows round-up: Healey quizzed on benefits bill
John Healey: ‘We will bring the benefits bill down’ Following his first Budget, Chancellor John Healey told the Today programme…
The pro-EU camp aren’t living in the real world
Thanks to Rachel Reeves’s piece in the Sunday Times this morning we can now say with confidence that Britain’s sluggish…
One look at France should cure Reeves of her wish to rejoin the EU
Britain’s future is in the EU. That’s the view of former Chancellor Rachel Reeves who believes that leaving the Bloc…
Why a successful British business is now pie in the sky
It is a sorry state of affairs when a pie seller is disappointed about selling more pies. Former Apprentice contestant…
Is now the time to bring back national service?
Wes Streeting has told us last week that we have 1,000 days to get war-ready amid the intensifying threats and…
The Church has forgotten the true meaning of martyrdom
All Saints’ Day is upon us. Today, Christians throughout the world will reflect on the lives of saints who have…
Nietzsche was the first self-help guru
Since the 1990s it has been acknowledged that our culture has become unduly concerned with risk and obsessed with the…
The true lesson of the Suez crisis
‘No Americans Served Here’ read a sign outside a car showroom in Hertfordshire in the aftermath of the Suez Crisis.…
Am I the most hated man in liberal America?
I’ve had hexes put on me by a university professor, had online vigilantes send packages of dogshit to my childhood…
A Court of Thorns and Roses gives reading a bad name
There’s a general consensus that reading is a good thing, and reading from actual physical books an even better thing.…
Poland’s constitutional squabble is the end result of ‘lawfare’
Karol Nawrocki was en route to Senegal when he instructed his flight crew to return to Poland. When he got…
Are the dirty tricks of Russia’s FSB getting even dirtier?
If your toilet is full of excrement that you don’t remember depositing there yourself, you may be the victim of…
Don’t expect calm after the US midterms
US technology shares were sliding again yesterday. The drop, as the Financial Times puts it, marks ‘a continuation of a…
A ‘woke’ TV news channel will never work
Quizzed by MPs last week on Ofcom’s alleged failure to rein in bias at the broadcaster GB News, the quango’s chairman Sir Ian…
Scottish nationalists may finally have an answer to their currency conundrum
It seems like a lifetime ago now. A few weeks before Scotland’s seismic 2014 vote on whether to exit or…
What are we really celebrating at Halloween?
Three years into my medical career, I worked with a doctor called Darren. Darren was excellent. Calm, sensible, highly intelligent…
The problem with James Acaster’s showing on the Traitors
Even the BBC’s hit series The Celebrity Traitors is not immune from the mental health contagion engulfing these shores. On…
The real meaning of the Budget
I’ve been writing about politics for 25 years and, putting aside the two years (2007-09) I was based in Washington,…
Was North Korea behind the biggest crypto heist in history?
When the world’s largest cryptocurrency heist takes place, it doesn’t take long for the finger to be pointed at one…
In praise of Zia Yusuf
To promote his new book, Alastair Campbell appeared this week on Question Time alongside Zia Yusuf. Campbell went on the attack, accusing…
Is it really worth barring this Swedish academic from the country?
Andreas Malm, a Swedish author and academic, claims he has been barred from the UK because he was due to…
Why China is so threatened by Hello Kitty
‘Hello Kitty must not dance with the far-right’ declared the Chinese newspaper Global Times in a recent editorial. This bizarre,…
