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Ireland’s deeply sinister hate crime bill
These are certainly interesting times in Ireland. Like every other European country, there’s a cost of living crisis. Mortgages are going…
Is it safe for France to host the Rugby World Cup?
The Rugby World Cup kicks off in just under ten weeks with hosts France playing New Zealand in the Stade…
Kamala Harris shares life-changing hair secrets
Although he has been a harsh critic in the past, Cockburn would like to thank fashion icon and hair-game legend…
SCOTUS has made the right call on student debt forgiveness
The Supreme Court correctly overruled President Joe Biden’s attempt to use executive power to forgive student loan debt on Friday.…
Protecting gender confused children
Risky medical experiments are not child's play
The climate ‘crisis’ has nothing to do with the Holocaust
What is it with environmentalists and the Holocaust? Barely a month goes by without some prominent green or another outrageously…
Singapore should serve as a model for how to fix racial disparities
In theory, the SCOTUS decision to strike down affirmative action in higher education should be considered as part of the…
Zac Goldsmith: the greatest hits
It seems that Zac Goldsmith’s decade-long dance with government is over. The Old Etonian today handed his notice after four…
Biden’s decline deepens in MSNBC interview
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace conducted an interview with Joe Biden (if you can call it that) that came across more like twenty minutes…
At home with Jacob Rees-Mogg
Before I arrived at Gournay Court, Jacob Rees-Mogg’s seventeenth-century home in Somerset, I’d missed the main event. Beforehand, I’d asked…
Does the TUC understand what the word ‘mum’ means?
Imagine if, in 1868, when the TUC was founded, someone had told those warriors for workers’ rights that one day…
Zac Goldsmith quits with personal attack on Sunak
One name stood out yesterday in the Privileges Committee dossier on parliamentarians who had attacked the panel over its investigation…
The truth about ‘affirmative action’
I’ve never cared for the expression ‘affirmative action’, which puts a positive spin on a negative practice: naked, institutionalised racial…
France is in danger of descending into anarchy
France endured its worst night of rioting yet on Thursday as violence continued across the country. For the third consecutive…
Macron hobnobs with Elton John as France burns
France is in chaos after another night of violence sparked by the shooting of a teenager by a Paris policeman.…
Why the Supreme Court’s Harvard decision matters
The decision is all anybody can talk about. Well, that’s not exactly true. It’s the banner headline in the New York…
The genius of Nancy Mitford
Nancy, the first – and perhaps most famous – of the six Mitford girls, died half-a-century ago on 30 June.…
Troubled artist Hunter Biden uses paintings to settle paternity suit with former stripper
Hunter Biden has settled his long-running child support case in Arkansas. The president’s son has reached an agreement with Lunden…
Why judges ruled against the Rwanda plan
It’s unusual – not to say uncomfortable – for the most senior judge in England and Wales to be overruled…
The Rwanda ruling is nothing to cheer about
The government’s loss in its Rwanda appeal spells trouble for Rishi Sunak. But liberals are delighted: ‘Massive result,’ said the barrister Adam…
Farage: my bank accounts closed with ‘no explanation’
Life appears pretty good for Nigel Farage right now. Winning awards for his TV show, enjoying the adoration of fans…
The American tradition of barbecue is a long and storied one
Barbecue is a fact of life, especially in America. Long summer evenings and reliably good weather make it an easy…
The privileges committee was right to scold Boris’s supporters
Did the privileges committee really need to bother with a report scolding a number of Boris Johnson’s supporters for what…
Trump’s ‘defense’ undermined by Mark Meadows memoir
Donald Trump’s defense that he was just holding up “newspaper stories, magazine stories and articles” always came across rather far-fetched,…
Has Putin had Sergei Surovikin locked up?
When Evgeniy Prigozhin started his armed insurrection, it was clear that he had allies within the ranks of the Russian…
