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Sainsbury’s self-checkouts are just the start
Sainsbury’s has long had a special place in my heart. The weekly shop at the Orange Store offered excitement to…
Zelensky’s time as president is up, but he’s right to stay put
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky’s five-year term is up, but he’s staying put. Unsurprisingly, some of Zelensky’s critics – and the…
Did the SNP miss the boat on saving commercial shipbuilding on the Clyde?
Scotland’s SNP government would like nothing better than to be seen to have saved commercial shipbuilding on the Clyde. It…
Is Venezuela preparing for war?
Earlier this month, two American supersonic fighter jets flew over Georgetown, the capital city of Guyana. The US show of…
Prince Harry loses bid to name Murdoch in phone-hacking trial
As much as Prince Harry claims to hate the media, he never manages to stay out of the spotlight for…
Can the Tories ensure the infected blood scandal never happens again?
Are the compensation payments announced today for victims of the infected blood scandal a just response to what happened? Paymaster…
Place your bets: what drugs is Biden on?
Who has a better chance of passing a drug test, Joe Biden or Hunter? At this point, Cockburn thinks it’s…
How Israel should fight back against the ICC’s lawfare
The application for arrest warrants against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister Yoav Gallant is an act of…
Gareth Southgate has finally shown some bottle
The provisional England squad for the Euros unveiled by manager Gareth Southgate contains one notable omission: Jordan Henderson. That’s a…
Taxpayer-funded porn project causes uproar in Scotland
Scottish government-backed quango Creative Scotland is back in the limelight over its porn project controversy. As Mr S wrote in…
UK growth is creeping up – but tough decisions still lie ahead
Today the International Monetary Fund has upgraded its growth forecasts for the UK: from 0.5 per cent this year to…
Gove sounds the alarm on anti-Semitism
Multiple ministers are out giving speeches today but none will be as hard-hitting as that made by Michael Gove this…
The far right isn’t the only threat ahead of the European elections
In France, Holland, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Hungary and Austria parties described by their foes as ‘far-right’ are on course for…
Europe’s leaders hail Rwanda scheme
Well, well, well. Rishi Sunak’s immigration plans have been met with a fairly underwhelming response in Britain – only a…
How did the EU get Raisi’s death so wrong?
Most of the world will not mourn the president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash near…
A crackdown on foreign students isn’t the only reason universities will struggle
Reducing the number of overseas students able to come to Britain would be a needless attack on one of our…
Will Ken Clarke lose his peerage?
In the aftermath of the tainted blood scandal, there is no shortage of blame to go around – but some…
The trouble with Labour’s new towns plan
Since last October, when Keir Starmer declared that he was a ‘Yimby’ – a ‘yes in my back yard’ –…
Ebrahim Raisi’s death won’t change the course of history
The Middle East never fails to surprise. Sunday was no exception. Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and…
The sad truth about ‘saint’ Nicola Sturgeon
Nicola Sturgeon has finally come clean: ‘I was part of the problem,’ Scotland’s former first minister has admitted, referring to…
Why MPs love to hate the register of interests
The register of members’ interests for the House of Commons turns 50 today. Few MPs will be celebrating. Politicians have…
Sunak apologises during ‘day of shame’
Rishi Sunak’s Commons apology for the contaminated blood scandal was reasonably comprehensive. The statement opened with him saying he wanted…
Roz Adams’s tribunal win is a victory for liberty
As the edifice of gender identity ideology continues to crumble, along comes another example of an institution not only captured…
The infected blood scandal should make us think twice about revering the NHS
Blood is central to the myths British people tell themselves. One of the many consequences of the contaminated blood scandal…
Javier Milei won’t stop insulting Pedro Sanchez’s wife
The Spanish ambassador in Buenos Aires was recalled to Madrid yesterday after Argentina’s president Javier Milei described the wife of…
