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The Tories must get serious about welfare reform
You can’t fault Mel Stride for trying. Conscious that our current levels of worklessness are neither sustainable nor likely to…
Met police swell their social media army
Scarcely a week seems to go by without an incident involving one of the Metropolitan Police’s social media accounts. Recent…
Tory MPs want a sense of vision from the PM
The Autumn Statement marks the latest in Rishi Sunak’s series of (often contradictory) relaunches Jeremy Hunt has started the week…
A potential hostage deal shows the weakness of Hamas
Details are sketchy and the deal is far from done, but all the signs are pointing towards a hostage agreement…
Can the government be trusted with free speech?
This summer, horrified by the rising numbers of students no-platforming and harassing visiting speakers whose views they don’t like, the government…
The new chainsaw wielding leader of Argentina
The location was the same – the circumstances starkly different. Almost 12 months ago, hundreds of thousands of people gathered…
Can Israel go on like this?
All generals plan military operations based on the ten principles of war – rules if you like, which if adhered to…
What does Javier Milei’s win in Argentina mean to America?
Javier Milei, a messy-haired bombastic libertarian economist, won Argentina’s presidential elections against socialist minister of economics Sergio Massa this Sunday.…
Hamas and retaking higher education
Maybe there is something for which we have to thank Hamas after all. That savage terror group epitomizes the latest…
What changed Hunt’s mind on tax cuts?
Has Jeremy Hunt had a change of heart or a change of circumstances? The Chancellor has spent the past few…
Will Sunak publish Braverman’s ‘ransom note’?
Another week of Tory wars looms in SW1. Ministers are desperately trying to find a fix to the Supreme Court’s…
Cameron squirms over China links
Welcome back to Westminster, David Cameron. The return of the former PM to frontline politics has prompted a deluge of…
The problem with trying to ‘fix’ men
International men’s day takes place today. There are plenty of good people working hard to raise the event’s status, but…
What it’s like living next door to Hezbollah
At 6.30 am on October 7, I began receiving hundreds of messages as Hamas began its invasion of Israel. We…
Could Nigel Farage win I’m a Celebrity?
This weekend, Nigel Farage enters the jungle on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! – reportedly for a fee…
Tracey Emin and the problem with museum trustees
The Royal Academy has nominated Tracey Emin to be a trustee of the British Museum. There is quite a fanfare…
The strange tale of Count Kalergi and the Pan-European Union
If the European Union created its own version of Mount Rushmore, who would it place in its pantheon? Horst Köhler,…
Vivian Silver and the collapse of the Israeli left
The well-lived life and foul murder of Vivian Silver encapsulate the hopelessness of Israel-Hamas war and the bad faith that…
Everton’s problems are only just beginning
Pity the poor Everton fans. Just as their once mighty club, now a perennial relegation battler, seemed to have a…
The sinister push to expel the Israeli ambassador to Ireland
There have been diplomatic tensions between Ireland and Israel almost since the latter was founded. Ireland only established diplomatic relations…
The brilliance of A.S. Byatt lives on in her writing
Dame Antonia Byatt, the novelist A.S. Byatt, has died after a long illness. With her goes part of the conscience…
Is Rishi Sunak preparing to throw Tory Red Wall MPs overboard?
Can the people around Rishi Sunak really be dim enough not to have anticipated that his reshuffle would go down…
How will Israel deal with the threat of Hezbollah?
From the very beginning, the war between Israel and Hamas has not been confined to just one front. The Iran-backed,…
Volhynia and the forgotten massacre of the Second World War
Completely innocent men, women and children have been slaughtered. ‘Terrorism’ hardly suffices to describe the savage rampage beyond the Gaza…
Do we really need more diversity on Gardener’s World?
Boo. Monty Don is retiring in a couple of years as presenter of Gardener’s World, because it’s getting to be…
