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Civil servants urged to ‘suppress’ Douglas Murray in counterterrorist lecture
For all the talk of a Tory ‘war on woke Whitehall’, more examples just keep cropping up. In an article…
Cameron says ‘military action was only option’ in Yemen
David Cameron: western strikes on Houthi rebels are ‘a very clear message’ This week the US and UK launched military…
Keir Starmer’s morning of U-turns
Another day, another U-turn from Keir Starmer. Or to be precise, two new U-turns from the Labour leader before midday.…
France is tiring of Macron’s gimmicks
President Emmanuel Macron and his freshly installed Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, appointed a new French cabinet this week. It is…
‘I still need to live’: Christian preacher Hatun Tash on the plot to kill her
When Hatun Tash went missing before Christmas her friends and family had good reason to be worried. In recent years,…
Britain is soft on crime
I’m not actually a journalist, although I’m often described as such. Along with all the other critics, polemicists, and columnists,…
Does Rishi Sunak care about Ukraine?
I’m told that these days you can still buy pastries which look like Boris Johnson, or drink beers with Boris…
How Hamas radicalised Israel’s liberals
I have visited Israel three times in the past year. The first trip was in the spring, just as the…
When will Kamala Harris come clean?
The world has changed since Kamala Harris ran for president in 2019. The US has withdrawn from Afghanistan (a decision…
Why France can’t save us
From an early age, my grandparents tried to save me the pitfalls of a lower middle class English existence by…
Democrats fawned over Fauci in closed-door Covid hearing
As a new Covid variant, JN1, has cropped up across America, the public health officials who were at the forefront…
Is the GOP about to sell out on the border?
Some details of the latest congressional border deal, negotiated by Republican senator James Lankford and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer,…
Taiwan’s voters defy Beijing
Taiwan’s voters have defied Beijing’s threats and intimidation and elected as president the most independence-minded of the candidates for the…
In defence of Brewdog
Brewdog, the Scotland-based brewery that has exploded into an international business in the last 15 years, is never far from…
There’s another dodgy data scandal brewing
The government is reeling from the Post Office Horizon scandal. ‘Lessons must be learnt’, goes the cry around Westminster. But…
How the Houthis can frustrate the West
On Thursday, the United States and the United Kingdom launched two rounds of strikes against 72 Houthi targets in Yemen…
In praise of Sven-Goran Eriksson
Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has revealed that he has cancer and, ‘at best’, about a year to live. The…
‘Sir’ Ed Davey’s Lib Dems are the real nasty party
Growing up in 1970s working-class Bristol (before it went all poke: posh and woke) life was so tribal that you…
The vast corruption of Ukraine’s sanctions regime
Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, a former US government official visited Kiev to inquire how he could help to supply…
The Tory party’s empty legacy
It was Evelyn Waugh who dismissed the Tories as having ‘never put the clock back a single second’. Now, even…
How the World Economic Forum’s ‘Young Global Leaders’ find their way to the top
The French found out on Thursday evening that, under their new prime minister, nothing will change in the way their…
What if the Houthi airstrikes fail?
The curse of air power is that air strikes always capture the public’s attention. The praise that follows their tactical…
The delusion of the Houthi pacifists
I see ‘Not in my name’ is trending on social media. It’s in response to the US and UK strikes…
What Britain’s defence deal with Ukraine means for the war
In his surprise visit to Kyiv, Rishi Sunak had two pieces of good news for Ukrainians: another £2.5 billion in…
Suella savages Sunak’s Rwanda Bill
The Rwanda Bill comes back to parliament next week which means a return of Westminster’s favourite parlour game: Tory blue-on-blue.…
