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The trouble with Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra
It’s the worst thing to happen to Cleopatra since that snake in the mausoleum. Queen Cleopatra is the second season…
The legal challenge to assisted suicide
Lonnie VanHook was preparing to board the train to Oregon when his body gave out. The Navy veteran is accustomed…
Are electric vehicles really the future?
It’s a cloudless spring day, made for a country drive. Chartreuse trees explode with pollen and glow to near neon.…
Why Erdogan won
This was supposed to be the year when Recep Erdogan would finally come to grief. Instead, he has defied the…
The malign influence of Mermaids is becoming increasingly clear
While I was writing about the latest scandalous revelation involving the children’s charity Mermaids and the Tavistock Gender identity development service (GIDS)…
Diversity and inclusion doesn’t belong in the maths curriculum
In March, the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) – an independent body which oversees standards and quality in UK…
Fixing food prices is a recipe for disaster
It wasn’t long ago that supermarkets stood accused of selling food too cheaply. Their price wars and two-for-the-price-of-one deals were…
Let’s call time on football’s absurd beer ban
When Qatar announced an alcohol ban at last year’s football World Cup, there was uproar. The decision, made public a…
‘I’m a singer, not a politician’: An interview with Ukraine’s Eurovision winner Jamala
Tucked in the margins of the recent Eurovision Song Contest was Jamala’s 30-second cameo of 1944, her winning song from…
Conservatives are blaming civil servants for their own failings
Conservatives are once again doing what they do best: whining. By ‘conservatives’, I don’t mean conservatives in any meaningful sense,…
What Phillip Schofield teaches us about public morality
On one level it’s all fluff and gossip, but the Phillip Schofield story actually raises some interesting questions about what…
Does BBC Verify need to review the Beeb’s own output?
Much has been made about the BBC’s new Verify service, launched last week. According to the Corporation’s glutinous press release,…
French sport has been plunged into crisis
The head of the French Olympic Committee has resigned just over a year out from the Games’ opening in Paris.…
Has New Zealand found the key to the UK’s housing crisis?
It may be difficult to imagine a housing crisis more dismal than the one Britain is experiencing right now, but…
American bully XL dogs should be banned
The American bully XL is, despite its name and reputation, said to be good with children and a friendly dog.…
Record numbers of Russian soldiers are going Awol
Few Russians go willingly to fight in the ‘meat grinder’ of Ukraine, where Russia has faced as many as 100,000…
How trans ideology came for therapy
One afternoon in May 2021, as I was sat at my desk, an email notification from my university course appeared…
Phillip Schofield resigns and admits affair with ‘younger male’
And so the extraordinary Phillip Schofield row rumbles on. Earlier this week it was announced that Schofield was steeping down…
The truth about ‘book bans’
The left is hard launching its response to the parental rights movement sweeping the country, and it has settled on…
The misdirected talent of Mizzy, the ‘TikTok terror’
Tessa Jowell once ignited a furious political row by claiming that inner-city youths active in criminal gangs were exhibiting a…
Welcome to Ouarzawood, Moroccan desert outpost and set of many major movies
It’s been a nearly seven-hour drive up and down the Atlas Mountains from Marrakech before a roundabout appears at the…
The joy of missing out
As I write this the coronation of King Charles hasn’t happened yet, but I’m having great fun watching the procession…
Does a ‘Pride progress’ flag really make rugby more inclusive?
The Rugby Football Union will fly the ‘Pride Progress’ flag at Twickenham this weekend, when a World XV team play…
Online shopping has not killed off the high street, yet
It wasn’t supposed to turn out this way, not at the beginning of the year when the wise and good…
Martin Amis and the death of the lascivious young man
In the days since Martin Amis died at 73 of oesophageal cancer, the papers have been full of tributes. Mostly…
