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The war against the French police is just getting started
Last Saturday in Paris a police officer leapt from his car and levelled his handgun at a baying mob. The…
Young people are right to hate the Tories
According to the latest YouGov polling, just 1 per cent of 18- to 24-year-olds plan to vote Conservative at the…
The outrageous felling of the Sycamore Gap tree
One August afternoon, my dad, my uncle, and I were walking along Hadrian’s Wall. It was pouring. Our shoes were…
The eurozone isn’t looking healthy
Bond yields are soaring. The cost of debt, and very soon mortgages, is rising. And the government is getting nervous…
Turning pizza Japanese
Japan is known for its cuisine. People from across the world visit the Land of the Rising Sun to sample…
We should all care about the dire state of our prisons
Charlie Taylor is not so much the canary in the coal mine of prison conditions as the British Gas engineer…
The campaign to destroy the French GB News
The campaign to destroy GB News in Britain is precisely mirrored by a campaign to eliminate CNEWS, its French equivalent.…
How close is Britain to leaving the ECHR?
Will the UK government pledge to leave the European Convention on Human Rights? It’s a cause that Tory MPs on…
Why is a Tory MP calling for GB News to be ‘taken off air’?
Well, that didn’t take long. We’re not even 48 hours into the latest Twitterstorm about upstart anti-woke news channel GB…
The chilling calls to shut down GB News
Tyranny is a sneaky thing. It often scurries in on the back of controversy. It is often when people are…
What’s behind Labour’s private school U-turn?
Another day, another policy shift from the Labour party. As the i paper first reported, Keir Starmer has U-turned on…
The Spectator – an update
The Spectator’s financial accounts are released today. We normally don’t make a fuss about them but these are unusual times,…
Has the true cost of net zero finally been revealed?
When the Commons nodded through Britain’s legally-binding net zero target in 2019 all MPs had to go on was the…
Rishi’s media round derailed by HS2
Ah the regional BBC round: the chance for any aspiring local reporter to make a name for themselves. Every year,…
There were no clear winners after the second GOP debate
The worst job in America on Wednesday was trying to moderate the second Republican debate. With seven candidates on stage…
Germany is going to have to get used to the AfD
This week, the right-wing Alternative for Deutschland party suffered one of its first setbacks of the year, after it failed…
The knives sharpen for GB News
The GB News row rumbles on, with its enemies seeing the perfect chance to call for its closure. A genuinely…
Net zero zealots will probably find a way to stop Rosebank
So, Rosebank is to go ahead, or so we think. The North Sea Transition Authority has granted a licence for…
Can China contain Evergrande’s collapse?
The Chinese Communist party appears set to kill off its largest economic zombie, while gambling that it can control the…
It’s Fox vs Wootton, as GB News debacle deepens
Oh dear. It seems that the self-proclaimed ‘People’s Channel’ has been at it again. GB News has been forced to…
Americans care less and less about Trump’s legal troubles
Another day in America, another judgment against the Trump family. In the latest, New York state Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron…
Will Ulez spell the end for Sadiq Khan?
Sadiq Khan showed little sign of being discomfited by the result of the Uxbridge by-election in July. In spite of…
By striking Crimea, Kyiv shows Putin that nowhere is safe
Admiral Viktor Sokolov, commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, appears to be Schrodinger’s admiral, alive according to Moscow, dead according…
Eco-technocrats in Brussels risk posing a threat to democracy
Any serious politician knows perfectly well by now that net zero 2050 won’t fly democratically. There was an inevitability about…
Justin Trudeau’s Nazi blind spot
Justin Trudeau’s government sees fascists everywhere, except when one is standing right under their nose. That’s the brilliant if bleak…
