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Watches & Wonders had only a few truly wonderful timepieces
Every year, the world’s greatest watch companies and their biggest watch fans head to Geneva for an orgy of horological…
The unimaginable tragedy of the Sydney stabbing attack
Bondi Junction, in Sydney’s affluent eastern suburbs, is well known to many British backpackers and tourists. Close to the city’s…
Diane Abbott’s private school hypocrisy
Oh dear. It seems that the sage of Hackney has blundered once more. Having lost the Labour whip last year…
Representing O.J. Simpson was a mixed blessing
When I was first asked to join the O.J. defence team, I declined, because I had appeared on television and…
Germanophobia is growing in France
There was a time earlier this century when few politicians in France would dare criticise Germany. The country was the…
Putin wants to create an unliveable no man’s land in Ukraine
The residents of Velyka Pysarivka had almost finished renovating their municipal library. They laid the floor with large white tiles,…
JK Rowling and the Cass report reckoning
Boyish girls, climb the nearest tree and give a Tarzan whoop of victory – girly boys, fashion a floral crown…
Why academia failed to challenge trans ideology
Dr Hilary Cass’s long-awaited review into healthcare for transgender children and young people was released this week. Her verdict was…
The power of talking as thinking
The world’s greatest scientific building recently celebrated its 225th birthday. In 1799, a group of natural philosophers (the word ‘scientist’…
Post-Soviet hostels and loveless nights
I suppose there are people who stay in four or five-star hotels all their lives and become a kind of…
Rayner promises to quit if convicted
Angela Rayner has this evening announced that she would quit if convicted of breaking electoral law, saying: ‘If I committed…
Rishi Sunak loses another minister
Graham Stuart has this afternoon quit the government, saying he wishes to focus on local issues after service in various…
The Greens are embarrassing the SNP
For an image of the ‘progressive nationalism’ that has disfigured Scottish public life over the past decade, look no further…
The Bank of England can’t blame IT for its dodgy forecasts
It hires the cleverest young graduates every year. It brings in talent from around the world. And it has the…
Are we really reaching ‘farmaggedon’?
I happened to be walking in the Cambridgeshire fens this morning while listening to the latest instalment of ‘farmageddon’ –…
Never forget the politicians who pushed gender politics
The great trans hoax is coming to an end. The idea of thousands of people being ‘trapped’ in the wrong…
The courts can’t solve climate change
It was always a racing certainty that this week’s ‘Swiss grannies’ climate change judgment in Strasbourg would spawn a new wave of…
Can Starmer be trusted with Trident?
Three weeks after the Prime Minister visited Barrow-in-Furness to pose with models of submarines, the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer…
The Angela Rayner council house row deepens
The row over Angela Rayner’s tax affairs is becoming more serious. This morning, Greater Manchester Police launched an investigation into…
Scottish government spent £400,000 on promoting new hate crime law
Back to Scotland and Humza Yousaf’s controversial new hate law. The First Minister’s Hate Crime Act has left an already…
Police launch investigation into Rayner housing claims
Well, well, well. Less than 24 hours after Keir Starmer tried to brush off questions about Angela Rayner, it turns…
How did the BBC get the trans debate so wrong?
What must it feel like to realise you are part of an organisation that has placed so-called progressive values ahead…
Ukraine’s controversial new conscription law takes effect
The Ukrainian parliament has finally stopped delaying the inevitable and voted for a new law that tightens mobilisation processes, strengthens penalties for…
The UK leaves recession behind in 2023
The economy grew by 0.1 per cent in February: not much to celebrate on its own but the small uptick…
Israel is still committed to eliminating Hamas
On Wednesday, three sons of the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh were killed by an Israeli airstrike. The three were killed…
