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Low birth rates are a threat to humanity
The village we moved to in central Italy is lovely – old stone houses and olive trees on a hillside – but…
Viktor Orban is not abandoning Europe
The news that Hungary and China have signed a security pact, following a visit by to Budapest by Wang Xiaohong,…
Why are Japan’s trains so much better than ours?
With six more months of train strikes recently announced it is getting hard to imagine a punctual, anxiety-free railway journey…
The sinister reality of trail hunting
Will Sir Keir Starmer go further on the Hunting Act than Tony Blair did? While the passing of the legislation…
The dilemma of being a transsexual Christian
As the Church of England once again tears itself apart over gay marriage, us transsexual Christians have slipped in under…
Why Trump won South Carolina
Elvis has left the building. So has Trump, and he left victorious. The “primary show” will have a few encores,…
Sunak was right to suspend Lee Anderson
When Lee Anderson was made deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, it was on the understanding that he’d explode now…
Shamima Begum shouldn’t have lost her British citizenship
Parliamentary sovereignty is the bedrock of the constitution, and the courts ought to accept it, even when bad laws are…
How badly will Nikki Haley lose in South Carolina?
Will Nikki Haley defy expectations and only lose by 20 points today? That seems to be closest thing to a…
The shamelessness of Hope not Hate
You would think that a group called ‘Hope not Hate’ would have a lot of important things to talk about…
Two years on, the Ukraine war matters more than ever
There are inevitably voices in the West questioning the value of committing more than £5.5 billion a month in support…
Netanyahu’s plan won’t deradicalise the Palestinians
Four months after the beginning of the Gaza war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has finally presented his security cabinet…
Why is the New Scientist defending cannibalism?
Most law students in the English-speaking world will have come across R v Dudley and Stephens, from 1884, which established…
Navalny showed there is a better Russia
Everything was angular about him: his brilliant smile, the choppy movements of his hands as he spoke, the western mannerisms he had…
Dartmoor’s mass trespass isn’t what it seems
The largest mass trespass in a generation will take place in Devon today. Hundreds of protesters belonging to the pressure-group…
Iran and the Yakuza are natural criminal bedfellows
On Thursday, a 60-year-old Japanese crime boss appeared in a New York court to respond to charges that he helped…
Why Prevent is still failing to tackle Islamist extremism
What is the core mission of the Government’s ‘Prevent’ strategy? When William Shawcross presented his review of our flagship counter extremism programme…
Unreliable renewables will make energy more costly
It is of course good news that the Ofgem price cap for a dual fuel household bill will fall from…
Net Zero’s days are numbered
If a week is a long time in politics, then 2023 belongs to a different age in the politics of…
Was Cameron behind Prince William’s Gaza intervention?
Eyebrows in Westminster this week after Prince William opted to wade into the Gaza conflict. On Tuesday, the Prince of…
Europe’s elitist politicians have lost touch with the working classes
What links Rishi Sunak to Elly Schlein, the leader of the Italian left, and Raphaël Glucksmann, the great hope of…
Liz Truss’s Republican love-in at CPAC
‘Oh, that’s Liz Truss,’ a conservative reporter says as the former British prime minister passes us in the corridor at…
The sad truth behind why the UK’s first trans judge resigned
A transgender judge has resigned, apparently because of the risk of politicising the judiciary. But this was no ordinary judge.…
Expelling the Russian ambassador would be a mistake
Jacob Rees-Mogg spoke for many people horrified by Alexei Navalny’s death in a Russian prison last week when he suggested…
Trump’s Never Surrender High Tops embody the worst of sneaker culture
It was inevitable. Having infected every other part of culture, partisan politics has arrived in the world of sneakerheads. Last…
