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Night czar is ‘good value for money’ insists Sadiq Khan
Back to one of Sadiq Khan’s worst mistakes in office: Amy Lamé. The underwhelming ‘night czar’ is in the news…
Sunak says the economy is doing better. Is he right?
Is Britain’s economy ‘turning a corner’? Rishi Sunak thinks so, but convincing his fellow MPs and the public is going…
How Justin Welby should have responded to Gove’s extremism crackdown
When the government raises big questions about our national values, one has a choice: to see it as an opportunity…
The EU is divided in its bid to stop the boats
There was good and bad news for the European Union last week: the number of migrants arriving in Europe on…
The Nova festival documentary revives the horror of 7 October
‘Yes… But…’. It is a phrase that Jews in Britain and around the world have become accustomed to hearing since…
Penny Mordaunt isn’t the answer
During her last Tory conference speech, Penny Mordaunt told her audience: ‘If you remember nothing else from what I have…
Sunak tries to put a stop to the plots
Rishi Sunak goes into the week hoping it will be better than the one that came before. Last week, the…
Putin crowns himself president of Russia again
As expected, following a three day ‘vote’, Vladimir Putin has once again crowned himself president of Russia. As of 9…
Princess Kate, photographs, and the great thirst for significance
When Photogate, or Kategate, or whatever we end up calling it, first became news, I remember taking one look at…
Kangaroo courts and bills of attainder
I want to talk about two things in this column: bills of attainder and kangaroo courts. The two often go…
Why everybody should have seen the Google Gemini blunder coming
Has it ever bothered you that all the Founding Fathers were white? Fear not: Google Gemini AI is here to…
Lessons from costly wars past
Money is often a substitute for strategy in US foreign policy. We spent $2 trillion in Afghanistan, only to lose…
Meet the Russians in Serbia who voted against Putin
Today, Russians in Serbia are heading to the polls to cast their vote and protest against what many see as…
We need to talk about war
‘Don’t mention the war!’ Remember that? Today, war seems nearly all that European leaders want to talk about. The prospect…
Nixing BRICS: how to counter the China-led alliance
Americans are used to exercising influence through international entities such as NATO, the World Trade Organization or the World Bank.…
Want student loan forgiveness? Make universities pay
At the turn of the twentieth century, Saturday Evening Post editor and Yale dropout George Lorimer bitingly summed up academia when he…
How was the puberty blocking scandal ever allowed to happen?
Remember when Irish singer Róisín Murphy was set upon by the mob last year? Her crime: she criticised puberty blockers…
An ex-German diplomat’s withering verdict on Berlin’s ‘flawed’ Russia policy
Arndt Freiherr Freytag von Loringhoven couldn’t have had a worse start as Germany’s ambassador to Poland. Germany’s fraught historical legacy…
What the rise of Islam means for Putin’s Russia
The term ‘Russians’, which the world likes to use for the 144 million citizens of my country, is often a…
The golf renaissance
Golf has never been weirder or better. As the season shifts into high gear with the Masters this month, the…
My initiation into breastfeeding
The most fastidious of us prepare for the marathon of our first labor and birth, but still fail to wrap…
My biggest regrets
Regrets, I’ve had a few, but unlike Mr. “My Way,” mine are enough to mention. (Didn’t Hoboken Frank at least…
The age of mass revenge
Journalists have never been noted for originality in their choice of metaphor, so readers must be wearied by now of…
The trials and tribulations of Orthodox Lent
The Russian Orthodox Church, which I converted to in 2018, has disgraced itself in the years since. Its Patriarch Kirill…
Montréal serves up a surprising array of off-season delights
There’s cold, then there’s winter-in-Canada cold. The kind where I’m jamming hand-warmers into my ski gloves — yet still somehow…
