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Is the Biden campaign panicking yet?
President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign has a major disadvantage. With no pandemic, Biden can no longer campaign from his basement…
Starmer’s private school tax is a terrible, vote-losing idea
Today Labour have confirmed that they will impose VAT on private schools in its first year of power if it…
Can Dr Jenny Harries accept her lockdown mistake?
Next time there’s a pandemic, the advice of Dr Jenny Harries will be crucial. She runs the UK Health Security…
Who polices our armed officers?
When is it acceptable for the police to kill? How do we regulate their use of lethal force? What is…
How Canada’s parliament ended up celebrating a former Nazi
Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February last year. By the end of March, the streets of cities all over the…
BLM protestor admits fundraiser fraud
Three years on from the toppling of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol, an organiser of a Black Lives Matter…
Welcome to ‘sick note Britain’
Is the country morphing into ‘sick note Britain’? According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the average…
The slow death of ‘balanced literacy’
To start a fire, you need a match, something that burns and air. So to speak. If you don’t have…
The quiet truth about two-parent families
Imagine a key that opened the door to a place where children did better at school, were less likely to…
Is it foolish to think the world can achieve net zero by 2050?
Most discussion of net zero in Britain seems strangely parochial. We only really talk about UK emissions, even though they…
The deep absurdity of HS2 diversity’s agenda
When it comes to British railway history, I can say, without exaggeration, that few places are more iconically located than…
Has Trudeau allowed Khalistani extremism to flourish in Canada?
On September 18, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the bombshell announcement that: ‘Over the past number of weeks Canadian security…
Spurious equal pay claims are a disaster for local councils
Bankrupt councils have gotten into trouble through profligate spending on loony projects like month-long Pride events and training staff in…
Roque is alive and well in Angelica, New York
Goose-pulling is dead and gone, and lawn darts are on life support, but roque is alive and well and avoiding…
Who can blame armed police officers for handing back their guns?
The Metropolitan Police has, for now, staved off a crisis. The force says that enough armed officers have returned to…
How did an ex-banker end up leading Greece’s Syriza party?
The past decade has not exactly been short of surprises in Greek politics. But even to seasoned observers, the election…
Why Met firearms officers want to hand in their guns
The decision by up to 300 Metropolitan police firearms officers to withdraw from armed duties is a serious and worrying…
What happened when the Bully XL protesters met the ‘Rejoiners’?
London was swamped with protesters this weekend but not all of them saw eye to eye. Bully XL dog owners…
Where ‘Rejoiners’ are going wrong
‘Rejoiners’ – who want Britain to once again be a part of the EU – took to the streets of…
As Lego has found out, the world isn’t ready to give up plastic
Predictions of the demise of the fossil fuel industry are based almost wholly on energy. In future, goes the argument, we…
The West and Russia are at war, says Sergei Lavrov
The United States and Britain are at war with Russia. So said the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a…
Macron’s political relaunch was a masterclass in self-belief
After months of inbound slings and arrows, Emmanuel Macron, powdered by the star dust of the royal visit, relaunched himself…
Johnsons deny sacking their nanny for having a drink with Boris
Childcare can be a contentious issue at the best of times. So Mr S was intrigued to read of reports…
Sunakism meets the Tory party
As the Liberal Democrats attempt to seize the political agenda at their annual conference in Bournemouth, Rishi Sunak is facing…
It is time to rethink the age of consent
In 1983 Samantha Fox was sixteen years old when she first appeared topless on Page Three of the Sun. That…
