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Shock as interest rates hiked to 5 per cent
The Monetary Policy Committee has voted seven to two to take interest rates to 5 per cent, a 0.5 point increase. Its…
Why Pride lost the public
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably witnessed the backlash to Pride. There have been mass boycotts of…
Free speech is for scumbags, too
It doesn’t take much to get you censored these days. You don’t even need to be that controversial. Believing in…
The Windrush myth
Seventy-five years ago today perhaps the most famous ship in British history arrived at this island. A new nation was…
Joe Biden is wrong to roll out the red carpet for Narendra Modi
On taking office, Joe Biden promised a new approach to foreign policy based on prioritising democratic values and human rights.…
Is Labour bluffing on Lords reform?
Is Labour really going to reform the House of Lords? The party has ended up in a bit of a…
What Avi Shlaim gets wrong about the persecution of Jews in Iraq
In his Spectator review of Avi Shlaim’s memoir Three Worlds, Justin Marozzi refers to the author’s claims about the 1950-51 terrorist bombings of Jewish targets…
Labour must resist jumping on the mortgage bail-out bandwagon
Millions of potential voters in marginal constituencies face punishing rises in their mortgage repayments over the coming months and years.…
Is Hunter Biden a bigger crook than Donald Trump?
Shall we play a game of pick the real criminal? Come on, it will be fun. On the one hand,…
Je suis Karen
As I creep into my mid-twenties something is changing. I’m not quite young enough to be carefree, I pay my…
What was it really like for the Windrush generation?
This article is not about me. It’s about a woman in her late eighties called Ethel who goes to my…
Hunter Biden is protected from on high
In his texts, Hunter Biden depicts himself as Atlas, carrying his entire family on his back — their financial and…
Emmanuel Macron should sink more pints
Civilisation’s last line of defence runs through the Élysée Palace. Emmanuel Macron has been lambasted by his opponents for necking…
The UK still needs fossil fuels, whether activists like it or not
The Supreme Court is hearing a case today that, if successful, could mean the end of new fossil fuel projects in…
Literary festivals are no fun
This is the season when literary festivals start to happen all over the UK. From the highlands of Scotland to…
Rishinomics isn’t working
Tax rises would bring debts under control. The Bank of England would bring inflation back down again. The government would…
It’s becoming ever clearer that climate change is a class issue
It’s not news that we live in a New Medieval age of Magical Thinking, when the Enlightenment is seen as…
There’s still little hope that the Titan will be found
The thought of laying eyes on the wreck of Titanic has tantalised the world since the ship’s rediscovery in 1985. Now the…
Germany can’t continue to ignore Polish pleas for war reparations
The Nazi occupation of Greece decimated its finances, left hundreds of thousands of civilians dead and all but destroyed the…
Sunak’s debt target is slipping out of reach
Threadneedle Street will have all the economic limelight this week as the Bank of England sets interest rates tomorrow. With…
Britain risks turning into a stagflation nation
Inflation figures out this morning make for grim reading: the headline rate didn’t budge, sticking at 8.7 per cent on…
Biden is right: China’s Xi is a ‘dictator’
Just as a stopped clock shows the correct time twice a day, so president Joe Biden, amidst the plethora of…
The Kremlin is still afraid of Alexei Navalny
As Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is once again in court, facing charges that could extend his time in prison…
On Fox, Trump admits: this terrible idea was his own
In my line of sight from my office, beside stacks of books and magazines, between unplugged lamps and cigar boxes,…
Is this the end of the road for Meghan?
Has there ever been a more brutally effective piece of social satire than the South Park episode that mocked Harry and Meghan?…
