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Sunday round-up:‘Lay the blame at the door of Putin’ for Navalny death
Speaking to Trevor Phillips on Sky News this morning, Illegal Migration Minister Michael Tomlinson joined the foreign secretary in stating…
Pakistani democracy is on the brink
A senior official in Pakistan has publicly confessed to vote-rigging in the country’s general election earlier this month. It is…
How Iran radicalised Yemen’s most tolerant tribe
My family left Yemen for Israel in 1935, at a time when tens of thousands of Jews were still living…
Britain’s Jews aren’t safe
The explosion of hatred and extremism prompted by the October 7 massacre was never going to limit itself to the…
Did lockdowns cause more harm than good?
The question of whether lockdowns caused more problems than they solved will be picked over for years to come, even…
The torment of British Jews
When I was a child, learning about the Holocaust, I used to believe that what happened to the Jews in…
The Ada Lovelace myth
Lord Byron’s daughter Lady Ada Lovelace is almost as famous now as her father. An entire industry has sprung up…
Britain should resist French pressure for a joint defence plan
On Friday President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Volodymyr Zelensky to the Elysée with great fanfare. The Ukrainian president was in Paris…
Labour’s confusing ceasefire stance
If the Scottish Labour party are keen to get one message across at their Glasgow conference, it’s that they are…
Navalny’s cause of death changed to ‘sudden death syndrome’
How did Alexei Navalny die? The official version is that he collapsed after a walk in his Siberian prison. But…
Letitia James is helping Trump get re-elected
“Donald Trump may have authored the Art of the Deal,” said the New York attorney general Letitia James, doing her best…
In Russia, Navalny is already becoming an unperson
Newspapers across Britain and the democratic world are dominated by the news of the death – perhaps murder – of…
Why won’t Justin Welby call out Russia’s Patriarch Kirill?
Justin Welby has just visited Ukraine. While there he spoke clearly against the false religion that underlies Russia’s ideology, and…
Donald Trump ordered to pay $350 million in fraud case
Donald Trump may be spending much of his time complaining that Nato members aren’t paying their bills, but he has…
Muslims won’t be fooled by George Galloway any more
It is a measure of how conspiracy theories have triumphed in the darkest corners of the left that, when the…
David Cameron and the long history of the posh Arabist
Anyone with a smattering of knowledge of Britain’s troubled history in the Middle East will be unsurprised by Lord Cameron’s…
The feuding tearing apart the Royal Society of Literature
You’d think, wouldn’t you, that the Royal Society of Literature (founded 1820) might be one of those institutions that chugs…
What Tucker Carlson gets wrong about Russia
‘I have seen the Future and it works,’ proclaimed leftist American journalist Lincoln Steffens after visiting Bolshevik Russia in 1919.…
France’s anti-democratic streak
For the past week the airwaves in France have eulogised Robert Badinter, a name unfamiliar to many outside the Republic.…
Congressman’s campaign site suffers X-rated hack
If you want casual sex in Australia, an online mistress, a “milf live chat,” or even just “local adult hookups…
Could AI ruin the election?
The artificial intelligence space is strange. Significantly overfunded, overhyped and overcovered — in part because AI can easily produce bad,…
It gets worse and worse for Rishi Sunak
Sixteen months ago Rishi Sunak was installed as Conservative leader and prime minister in the hope that he would be…
Hope for Russia has died with Navalny
It was brave. It was foolhardy. It was almost unbelievable. After his near-fatal poisoning by the Russian Federal Security Service,…
Could Harry become an American citizen?
If I was the producer of Good Morning America, I would feel disappointed by today’s appearance of Prince Harry on…
The tragedy of Alexei Navalny
I knew and greatly respected Alexei Navalny. The news (as yet not independently confirmed) that he died in prison came…
