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The prisons crisis needs bold solutions like the El Salvador plan
Two days is a very long time in British politics. On Saturday it was being reported that Andy Burnham might…
Miatta Fahnbulleh and the society of socialist hypocrisy
‘The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons,’ was Ralph Waldo Emerson’s immortal line to…
The Colombia earthquake is a big test for its new president
When Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in as Colombia’s president on August 7, he had a long list of…
Greta and Kneecap are a match made in heaven
Is there anything sadder than a Kneecap fan? Privileged kids in tricolour balaclavas leaping around like demented wombats. Bourgeois radicals…
Meet Farah Ahmed, Jason Arday’s colleague
After the Jason Arday disaster, here is new evidence that things have gone deeply wrong at Cambridge University. We can…
Jason Arday and the terrible truth about students
When I was a young punk, my favourite badge (we loved badges!) was a big white one which a reader…
What has happened to Ricky Gervais?
A defiant Ricky Gervais has insisted that he’s ‘never been so happy’ after his Netflix series, Alley Cats, reached the number…
The man who hunted the Kinahans
Last night, an Irish government jet landed just outside Dublin. On board was Daniel Kinahan, alleged leader of one of…
Nigel Farage: Restore must kick out its racists
Nigel Farage today doubled down on his pledge not to strike a deal with Restore unless Rupert Lowe rids his…
Why can’t Britain deport all our foreign prisoners?
The great civic crisis of our times is state capacity. When policies favoured by voters are repeatedly met with a…
The genius of Jason Arday
Halfway through watching the hit Netflix series The Tinder Swindler, I realised I was cheering on the swindler Simon Leviev, who…
A Burnham wealth tax looks inevitable
In the run-up to his elevation to prime minister, it would be safe to say that Andy Burnham did not…
Is Andy Burnham brave enough to stand up to China?
Since becoming prime minister just three weeks ago, Andy Burnham has focused on two key words: ‘hope’ and ‘justice’. And…
Jason Arday and the Dukes and Dauphins of DEI
The Music Man, The Sting, Catch Me If You Can: movies and theater have a rich tradition of stories about imposters who…
We should ban foreigners from council houses
State House occupies a prized hilltop location in central Freetown. As befits the official home of the President and First…
There’s one rip-off Andy Burnham will never crack down on
Trying to pay my taxes via the HMRC website the other week, my bank thought it had sniffed a rat. “Could…
Should the police investigate Jason Arday?
The police role in the Jason Arday case so far deserves rather more scrutiny than it has received. Certainly, the…
Benjamin Netanyahu isn’t blocking peace in Gaza
As is so often the case when it comes to coverage of Israel and the Middle East, much of the…
Americans deserve burrito abundance
It’s a tough time to be in the business of burrito-making. The price of beef is on the rise. A…
Has the hounding of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor gone too far?
God, the avenging Furies had nothing on the Jeffrey Epstein industry when it comes to the pursuit of its quarry.…
Sociology is about much more than fools like Jason Arday
One of the unfortunate consequences of the Jason Arday debacle is that it has thrown the entire discipline of sociology…
How Paris made the Mosleys
Parisians have suffered through four scorching heatwaves this summer, but none compares to the deadly canicule of early August 2003 when temperatures…
Zack Polanski reveals his instant soup politics
Zack Polanski enjoyed a cosy conversation with Iain Dale at the Edinburgh festival yesterday. They sounded and acted like old…
How to fix Britain’s broken libel laws
In 1895, Winston Churchill, as a young officer cadet at Sandhurst aged 21, was falsely accused of having committed an…
Labour is the real party of the privileged elite
There’s nothing the ruling Labour political class likes more than propagating the Oxbridge class myth that the Conservative party is…
