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Is Gary Neville following in the footsteps of Thatcher – or Trump?

1 July 2023 8:53 pm

A video loop on the homepage of Gary Neville’s new website shows the ex-Man Utd captain turned businessman, broadcaster and…

Affirmative action was hurting black students

1 July 2023 8:04 pm

Harvard may have a slightly more difficult time poaching black students from Boston College, Miami University of Ohio, or other…

Has the Bank of England’s net zero obsession fuelled inflation?

1 July 2023 7:00 pm

The Bank of England was made independent to take monetary policy away from flighty politicians who are slaves to expediency…

Why America needs regime change

1 July 2023 5:38 pm

No sensible reader of the news could look at America and think it is flourishing. Massive economic inequality and the breakdown of…

Project drear: Starmer’s plan to bore his way to power

1 July 2023 5:15 pm

The very modest poll ‘bounce’ that Rishi Sunak delivered for the Tories after the farcical Liz Truss premiership has proved…

Putin’s secret weapon is fragility

1 July 2023 5:00 pm

As the dust settles on Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny that wasn’t, the consensus is clear: Vladimir Putin has been left weakened…

The Transmaid’s Tale

1 July 2023 5:00 pm

It’s generally agreed that sex-selection is a Bad Thing. In India and China, sons are favoured over daughters – but…

Ireland’s deeply sinister hate crime bill

1 July 2023 5:00 pm

These are certainly interesting times in Ireland. Like every other European country, there’s a cost of living crisis. Mortgages are going…

Is it safe for France to host the Rugby World Cup?

1 July 2023 4:45 pm

The Rugby World Cup kicks off in just under ten weeks with hosts France playing New Zealand in the Stade…

Kamala Harris shares life-changing hair secrets

1 July 2023 7:15 am

Although he has been a harsh critic in the past, Cockburn would like to thank fashion icon and hair-game legend…

SCOTUS has made the right call on student debt forgiveness

1 July 2023 5:40 am

The Supreme Court correctly overruled President Joe Biden’s attempt to use executive power to forgive student loan debt on Friday.…

Protecting gender confused children

1 July 2023 5:30 am

Risky medical experiments are not child's play

The climate ‘crisis’ has nothing to do with the Holocaust

1 July 2023 5:16 am

What is it with environmentalists and the Holocaust? Barely a month goes by without some prominent green or another outrageously…

Singapore should serve as a model for how to fix racial disparities

1 July 2023 3:08 am

In theory, the SCOTUS decision to strike down affirmative action in higher education should be considered as part of the…

Zac Goldsmith: the greatest hits

1 July 2023 2:23 am

It seems that Zac Goldsmith’s decade-long dance with government is over. The Old Etonian today handed his notice after four…

Biden’s decline deepens in MSNBC interview

1 July 2023 12:42 am

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace conducted an interview with Joe Biden (if you can call it that) that came across more like twenty minutes…

At home with Jacob Rees-Mogg

1 July 2023 12:00 am

Before I arrived at Gournay Court, Jacob Rees-Mogg’s seventeenth-century home in Somerset, I’d missed the main event. Beforehand, I’d asked…

Does the TUC understand what the word ‘mum’ means?

30 June 2023 10:00 pm

Imagine if, in 1868, when the TUC was founded, someone had told those warriors for workers’ rights that one day…

Zac Goldsmith quits with personal attack on Sunak

30 June 2023 7:27 pm

One name stood out yesterday in the Privileges Committee dossier on parliamentarians who had attacked the panel over its investigation…

The truth about ‘affirmative action’

30 June 2023 6:14 pm

I’ve never cared for the expression ‘affirmative action’, which puts a positive spin on a negative practice: naked, institutionalised racial…

France is in danger of descending into anarchy

30 June 2023 4:32 pm

France endured its worst night of rioting yet on Thursday as violence continued across the country. For the third consecutive…

Macron hobnobs with Elton John as France burns

30 June 2023 4:07 pm

France is in chaos after another night of violence sparked by the shooting of a teenager by a Paris policeman.…

Why the Supreme Court’s Harvard decision matters

30 June 2023 3:32 pm

The decision is all anybody can talk about. Well, that’s not exactly true. It’s the banner headline in the New York…

The genius of Nancy Mitford

30 June 2023 3:14 pm

Nancy, the first – and perhaps most famous – of the six Mitford girls, died half-a-century ago on 30 June.…

Troubled artist Hunter Biden uses paintings to settle paternity suit with former stripper

30 June 2023 8:00 am

Hunter Biden has settled his long-running child support case in Arkansas. The president’s son has reached an agreement with Lunden…