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Starmer faces tough questions as Labour’s conference begins
Keir Starmer began his big conference interview with the BBC talking about the story that has dominated the weekend –…
Israel faces a new kind of war
Israelis awoke to sirens on Saturday. They began after six in the morning on the border of Gaza as Hamas…
Israel has faced its darkest day for 50 years
While preparing to head out to synagogue to join the dancing and celebration for the Simchat Torah festival, the rocket…
Helen Mirren is perfect to play Golda Meir
The word ‘actress’ used to be interchangeable with ‘prostitute’ and though it’s a good thing that this little misunderstanding was…
Subsidies have defanged the French media
It’s not surprising that much mainstream French journalism is complacent, incurious and stenographic. The elite French media is lavishly subsidised…
My faux pas with Orlando Bloom
The R word strikes terror into the hearts of ministers and their diary managers alike but spare a thought for…
Has Soviet self-censorship come to Britain?
When the Soviet system fell in my native Estonia I was 17 years old. I’d spent the entirety of those…
Hamas is targeting Saudi-Israeli peace talks
Why the attack? Why now? What pretext? For Muslims like me, who have been following the Israel-Arab peace talks with…
The shameful gloating at Israel
Leftists love to fantasise about how heroic they’d have been when Jews were being rounded up in the 1930s. ‘I’d…
Israel declares war on Hamas
Some 5,000 rockets have rained down on Israeli civilians in an attack co-ordinated from land, sea and air by Gaza-based…
Why hasn’t the UK outlawed the IRGC?
As the scale and barbarity of the Hamas terrorist assault on Israel begins to unfold, to no-one’s surprise Iran has…
Will constitutional reform be on Starmer’s conference agenda?
As Labour travels to Liverpool this weekend, one issue which will attract attention is the extent to which Sir Keir…
Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel was meant to bring war
In the early hours of the morning of this morning, Israelis had a flashback to the surprise attack of the…
The trouble with Canterbury Cathedral’s rave
I will not be attending the silent disco that is soon to be held in Canterbury Cathedral. I will not…
Could Nigel Farage unlock victory for Keir Starmer?
What is Labour’s offer for Nigel Farage? Yes, you read that right. Of course, Keir Starmer’s party detests almost everything…
Stag don’t: Britain’s deer problem is out of control
Britain’s annual wildlife spectacular is just warming up. From the Highlands to the New Forest, the raucous bellowing of amorous…
In defence of Eton’s Provost
The world divides into two groups. Those who liked school and those who didn’t. Sir Nicholas Coleridge, the next Provost of…
Could this former tantric sex coach become Argentina’s president?
One of Argentina’s presidential candidates is unlike the others. La Libertad Avanza’s Javier Milei whizzes past crowds shaking a chainsaw in the…
How Brits turned soft on crime
It is almost exactly 30 years since a young Labour politician told his party’s annual conference in Brighton that as…
My dreams perished — except the sports car
They say that, against all expectations, after the age of about fifty you actually get happier, and that much of…
Nancy Mace using software in violation of House rules
Representative Nancy Mace, newfound foe of ousted speaker Kevin McCarthy, has been using a software for official work that is…
High interest rates aren’t the only reason for the house price slump
To no-one’s surprise, house prices fell again last month. Average prices were down by 0.4 per cent in September, according to…
What Kevin Keegan gets right and wrong about football pundits
What was Kevin Keegan, the former England and Newcastle manager, thinking when he decided to share his views on ‘lady…
Why is Starmer cosying up to the Sun?
It’s hard to know who has the most to gain from a Faustian pact between Keir Starmer and Rupert Murdoch.…
When will the EU take France’s Islamist concerns seriously?
The European Parliament hosted an event in Brussels last week entitled ‘Close Guantanamo’. It was hosted by two Irish left-wing…
