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Britain needs to rethink devolution
Scotland is stuck. This week has only confirmed it. SNP leader Humza Yousaf used his party conference in Aberdeen to…
Lost in Translation was Tokyo at its bizarre, dislocating best
You can wait ages for a Japan themed Hollywood film and then three come at once. In an odd spasm…
Why Angela McLean’s ‘Dr Death’ jibe matters
Does it matter if the chief scientific adviser referred to Rishi Sunak as ‘Dr Death’ In a private message to…
What Liz Truss did next
It was a year ago on Wednesday that Liz Truss left office. As the ministerial cavalcade rolled out of Downing…
AI will destroy TV news
As we all know, the last few days have been filled with terrible news out of Israel and Gaza, and…
Why the kids hate Jews
The surest way to work up a crusade in favour of some good cause is to promise people they will…
The Tory war on woke won’t work
Visibly desperate Conservatives are counting on their opposition to the left’s cultural revolution to save them, if not from defeat,…
Belgium’s cowardice is preventing it from tackling its terror threat
Last year, a French broadcaster asked if Belgium was in danger of becoming a narco state. The question was posed…
Jihad chanters let off by the Met
Oh dear. It seems that the wokest police force in all the West has done it again. In the past…
ATACMS missiles alone won’t change the game in Ukraine
America’s ATACMS long-range missiles were a potential ‘game changer’ to the war in Ukraine to some, a potential source of…
Can the BBC World Service really go on like this?
The BBC has launched what it is calling an ‘urgent investigation’ into six journalists and a freelancer working for its…
The changing season brings a change in politics
If you are paying attention, you know that nature is full of inklings and adumbrations. I am writing in New…
Meet Meredith Angwin, the grandmother changing the energy industry
Along a twist in the Connecticut River within an old-style colonial Vermont home lives Meredith Angwin, the Jewish grandmother who…
The new wave of woman hate
It was in the late 1990s, during then-President Bill Clinton’s scandal, when I first concluded that neither major political party…
The future looks Republican
In presidential elections there’s no such thing as a Pyrrhic victory. Winning is everything — and neither party would ever…
Reports of the death of freedom have been greatly exaggerated
Not long ago, I accepted an invitation to attend a gala dinner in Washington, DC, celebrating what Caketoppers.co.uk informs me…
Why ‘dirty’ coal is vital to a ‘clean’ green future
The Central and Western regions of Pennsylvania are known for their majestic, untamed landscapes. Seen from on high, you’d think…
Macron’s worrying dilemma
For a man so keen to thrust himself onto the international stage, Emmanuel Macron has been surprisingly quiet over the…
Who do the police protect?
The function of the police, one might have thought, was to protect the weak against the overbearing and the bullying.…
The weather isn’t to blame for Britons shopping less
It was the weather wot did it, wot stopped us spending in the shops. Yet again, the favourite old excuse…
Pressure is mounting for Jeremy Hunt to find tax cuts
Timing is a funny thing. The Chancellor received some good news about the public finances this morning, just when everyone…
Can Sunak convince Tory MPs to hold their nerve?
Why have the Tories lost both Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth, seats they could normally rely on the laws of physics…
Tory voters are no longer scared of Labour
Amid all the discussion in Tory circles about whether the next election will have more in common with the narrow…
Losing Tamworth and Mid-Bedfordshire is a disaster for Sunak
What an epically horrible night for the Conservative part, one of the worst in the party’s long and storied history.…
Iran and Hamas didn’t always get on
In the days after Hamas’s attack on Israel last week, everyone wondered how much Iran knew beforehand. But a focus…
