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How to stop China spying on our universities
Our universities are not safe from the messy realities of spies and geopolitical competition. The most infamous Soviet spy ring in…
The BBC Proms could do much better than Sam Smith
The Proms, in its latest attempt to be accessible and inclusive, has (via the BBC) booked famously ‘non-binary’ singer Sam…
Labour’s plan to renationalise the railways doesn’t add up
Labour’s plan to renationalise the railways is not much of a plan at all. Rather, it is a list of…
Can Humza Yousaf hang on?
Humza Yousaf is facing the biggest crisis of his leadership after the First Minister axed his party’s power-sharing deal with…
The truth about Australia’s controversial crocodile cull
The Northern Territory News, Darwin’s daily paper, is known worldwide for its front pages with headlines so cleverly lurid that…
Ireland can’t blame the Rwanda plan for its immigration woes
‘When in doubt, blame Britain’ has, since Brexit, become something of an iron law of Irish politics. So it came…
A tide of Euroscepticism is sweeping France
Britons should be fearful of Tony Blair’s call to the Labour party to ‘reset’ relations with the EU. The former…
Why do politicians keep getting gender politics wrong?
Gillian Keegan has declared that she will no longer use the slogan, ‘trans women are women’ because, as she explains,…
How Humza Yousaf could survive
Did Humza Yousaf think it through? When he decided, late on Wednesday night, to pull the plug on the Green-SNP…
Who is General Gwyn Jenkins, the UK’s national security adviser ?
The Prime Minister’s announcement this week of an increase in UK defence spending from 2 per cent to 2.5 per cent of GDP by…
Even GB News viewers prefer Starmer to Sunak
Oh dear. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is no stranger to poor poll outcomes – but a new survey may cut…
Why is the BBC censuring Kenneth Clark’s ‘Civilisation’?
‘What is Civilisation? I don’t know. I can’t definite it in abstract terms – yet. But I think I can…
Children could die because of Greenpeace’s Golden Rice activism
First, a word of warning. If you donate money to Greenpeace, you might think you’re helping save the whales or…
Why the EU is raiding Chinese companies
The target of Wednesday’s dawn raid has been on the radar of western security services for some time. There has…
Will under-13 curfews really make France safer?
Rebecca, a British friend who taught theatre studies at a celebrated English public school before she was brutally sacked during…
Is this the beginning of the end for Humza Yousaf?
Scottish politics may be about to enter the abyss following the disintegration of the Green-SNP coalition. The Scottish Conservatives have…
Meta’s AI investment plan has backfired on Zuckerberg
It will write your WhatsApp messages for you. It will post a cute picture of your cat on Instagram, even…
When will the BBC apologise to Toby Young?
More bad times at the BBC. The Corporation is in hot water yet again following last week’s episode of Sunday…
Why didn’t the Tories nationalise the railways?
The Conservatives can crow all they like about the benefits of privatisation – and make whatever claims they like about tickets…
Why Portugal’s coup worked
Fifty years ago today, on 25 April 1974, Europe was stunned by an almost bloodless military coup that removed the…
How eastern Europe became a fortress
On Tuesday, Rishi Sunak chose Poland to announce that the United Kingdom would boost defence spending to 2.5 per cent of national…
Lockdown’s impact on children is only beginning
Children who started school in the early days of the pandemic will have worse exam results well into the next…
Was the London horse rampage avoidable?
The sight of runaway military horses – one covered in blood – wasn’t what any Londoner expected to encounter on…
Tommy Robinson and the truth about two-tier policing
Tommy Robinson, a self-invented English ‘patriot’, was free to attend yesterday’s St George’s Day event in central London which descended…
Anti-colonialism and the distortion of history
In 2020, the National Trust released its ‘interim report’ on the connections between its properties and colonialism and slavery. It…
