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I Dream of Lamu
An hour after the propeller plane lifts away from Wilson, Nairobi’s regional airport, it is arching over the blues and…
Melania Trump is phoning it in
There’s something admirable about Melania Trump’s commitment to doing absolutely nothing. While America obsesses over her husband’s latest provocations, the…
Dan Patrick’s war on weed gummies could endanger Texas Republicans
In a press conference that veered into awkward sketch comedy in Austin, Texas, yesterday, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick railed at…
Why Gen Z is converting to Catholicism
Both of my parents are Jewish, as were theirs, going as far back as anybody remembers – probably to Abraham.…
Why do police accept criminal drug use?
Another day, another sign of the British state’s acceptance of criminality. This time it’s the news that almost half of people caught…
It’s the last chance for levelling up
‘The policymakers that live in London and stuff, they don’t really care about a small town like Rochdale. I just…
Lord Hermer is preposterously wrong about international law
Lord Hermer KC has done it again. Delivering RUSI’s annual security lecture this week, the Attorney General set out to…
How can France ban outdoor smoking?
Faced with a cost-of-living crisis, rising delinquency, failing public services, and riots in the suburbs, the French government has finally…
The real reason why academics write in gobbledygook
Why can’t academics write properly? Why can’t they express themselves in language that normal people can understand? These are questions…
Has Serbia really fallen foul of Moscow?
Is it getting harder for Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić to maintain his balancing act between Moscow and the West? Why…
Hermer admits Nazi comments were ‘clumsy’
As if the Attorney General hadn’t proven his ability for conjuring up negative headlines enough, Lord Hermer took it upon…
The growing militancy of the BMA
To understand what’s really going on with the latest British Medical Association strike threat – it is currently balloting 50,000…
Britain’s Gulf trade deal is not the place for virtue signalling
Rachel Reeves announced that a trade deal with the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) – in other words, Saudi Arabia and…
Lord Hermer’s ‘Nazi jibe’ at Reform won’t work
It is an axiom of political debate that once you compare your opponents to Hitler’s Nazis you have definitely lost…
Starmer’s welfare cuts are nothing like ‘Tory austerity’
Keir Starmer has already folded on the winter fuel payment, promising a partial reversal of the policy by reinstating it…
Labour ministers averaging a union meeting a day
Whatever happened to that £22bn black hole, eh? As yet more pay rises are dolled out to workers across the country…
Lord Hermer’s ‘Nazi jibe’ shows his naivety
Amid talk of a summer reshuffle, I recently asked a senior member of the Labour party if he thought the…
The case for looking back in anger
Last week marked the anniversary of the Manchester Arena bombing – the deadliest terrorist attack on British soil since the 7/7…
Why the Japanese don’t believe Fukushima is safe
Soil samples from Fukushima, the prefecture where Japan’s Dai-Ichi Nuclear reactor exploded in 2011 sending plumes of radioactive material into…
Will the economy save the Tories?
This week Dominic Cummings said the Tories may have ‘crossed the event horizon’. He was trying to find a tech…
America is coming for Britain’s social media censors
In 2021, after the barbaric Islamist murder of Sir David Amess MP, the response of Britain’s political class was as…
Scotland’s Ecocide Bill is pure moral posturing
Here we go again. The Scottish parliament risks embarking on yet another exercise in legislative virtue signalling: the Labour MSP…
Tariffs will make America poorer
Is life worse today than it was 50 years ago? According to a Pew Research survey, 58 percent of respondents…
The specter of communism still looms over the Balkans
Our Serbian guide Zoran is a jovial fellow and as we rumble through the streets of Belgrade in our minibus…
Senior Tories plan candidate overhaul
There are many justifiable criticisms of how the Tories ran candidate selection for the last election. On the day that…
