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Watch: Australians mock UK trade deal

3 June 2023 3:08 am

Huzzah! The momentous day has arrived at last: finally Britain can reap the Brexit benefits and enjoy some delicious free-trade…

Who is Pride really for?

3 June 2023 1:48 am

Towards the end of the first century AD, the Emperor Domitian rebranded the month of October as ‘Domitianus’. It will…

The problem with calculating climate-related excess deaths

3 June 2023 1:42 am

Another week, another extravagant claim for climatic doom goes unchallenged. Speaking on the Today programme on Wednesday morning, Dale Vince…

The sinister side of making ‘misgendering’ a disciplinary offence

3 June 2023 12:50 am

Should ‘misgendering’ someone be a disciplinary offence? One Oxford college seems to think so. Yesterday, Regent’s Park College posted a…

The rise of the independent watchmakers

3 June 2023 12:06 am

Over the last four years, one of the biggest trends in watch collecting has been the rise of the “independents”…

Abolishing inheritance tax would be a mistake for the Tories

2 June 2023 10:39 pm

Liz Truss’ fallen star has been rising again of late (at least a few degrees above the horizon) as gilt…

Does Donald Trump have anything new to offer?

2 June 2023 8:57 pm

It’s no secret that I’m not a personal fan of former president Donald Trump – but through the years I…

Trans ideology and the triumph of feelings over fact

2 June 2023 8:03 pm

Most people who have been following the controversy over Kathleen Stock’s speech at the Oxford Union, and who have been…

Sunak’s absurd decision to sue the Covid inquiry judge

2 June 2023 6:32 pm

Thursday evening saw the extraordinary sight of a government suing a highly respected retired judge from our Court of Appeal,…

Macron has a point about Russian war crimes

2 June 2023 5:17 pm

French President Emmanuel Macron tends to rock the boat whenever he opens his mouth, saying hard truths that many of…

Watch: Biden falls over (again) at Air Force graduation

2 June 2023 4:44 pm

President Biden continues to project strength ahead of the 2024 election — by tumbling on stage at the US Air…

Las Vegas’s Mob Museum revels in the city’s gritty past

2 June 2023 6:08 am

A generation or two is usually enough time for a family whose fortune may have been built upon a crime…

Cabinet Office to take the Covid inquiry to court

2 June 2023 3:53 am

The Cabinet Office has tonight launched a last-ditch legal effort to avoid handing over Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApps to the official Covid…

Ben Roberts-Smith and the murky debate over accountability in war

2 June 2023 1:15 am

Today in Sydney, Australia’s most decorated soldier, former Special Air Services corporal Ben Roberts-Smith VC, was found by a civil…

Scotland and England aren’t drifting apart

2 June 2023 12:25 am

Are Scotland and England drifting inexorably apart? To find out if that’s true, at Our Scottish Future, we carried out…

Could falling house prices be here to stay?

1 June 2023 9:20 pm

Not for the first time, a gulf has opened up between house price indices. This morning, Nationwide reports that average…

The Tories need to get serious about the Blob

1 June 2023 8:43 pm

The government has paid a whacking out-of-court settlement of £100,000 to Anna Thomas, a whistleblower sacked after she tried to…

Could Russia try to assassinate British officials?

1 June 2023 6:52 pm

You only have to hear the words of Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian President and Vladimir Putin’s long term chief sidekick,…

Is Trump taking Hillary’s road to oblivion?

1 June 2023 6:41 pm

A few months back I asked a question of Donald Trump: does he know why he’s running to be president…

Immigration is an existential threat for Rishi Sunak

1 June 2023 5:13 pm

Rishi Sunak’s pet theory that voters are relaxed about the level of legal immigration – so long as the government…

The Schofield saga has become an unedifying spectacle

1 June 2023 4:10 am

In the mid-90s when I was a 19-year-old undergraduate I did work experience at the now defunct The Face magazine.…

The censorship didn’t begin with Kathleen Stock

1 June 2023 3:34 am

It’s 2023 and a lesbian requires security guards to speak at the Oxford Union. That image of Kathleen Stock arriving…

Is it time to scrap the Covid inquiry?

1 June 2023 1:51 am

Why do we have inquiries? The late Geoffrey Howe suggested six principal reasons: to establish the facts, to learn from…

Childline has a safeguarding problem

31 May 2023 9:59 pm

It is hard not to be increasingly concerned about the safeguarding of children at Childline, an arm of the National Society…

The unstoppable rise of the nanny state

31 May 2023 9:44 pm

It has been a pathetic sight to watch politicians pleading with the supermarkets to lower food prices. Inflation has yet…