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The troubling truth about Boris’s partygate inquisition
There is something faintly ridiculous about the Privileges Committee’s report on partygate. Sixteen pages in, you encounter the following sentence:…
Boris Johnson took us for fools. Now we have proof
No one wants to talk about the pandemic anymore. Not even partygate. Understandably so: we’ve all put hard work into…
Let’s not follow Boris down his path as ‘Britain’s Trump’
The Commons privileges committee report into the conduct of Boris Johnson is completely damning. All the kerfuffle about whether the…
Three things we’ve learned from the Partygate report
The Privileges Committee has today published its findings on whether Boris Johnson deliberately misled MPs over Partygate. The House of…
Full text: Boris Johnson’s response to the Privileges Committee’s report
This morning the Privileges Committee published their findings of their investigation into Boris Johnson’s conduct in the wake of the…
The partygate report is damning for Boris Johnson
The Privileges Committee has published its report on whether Boris Johnson deliberately misled parliament over partygate. It is damning. The…
Putin is lining up a lengthy list of scapegoats for his war
Lately Vladimir Putin has been strikingly unwilling to subject himself to any serious debate about his war in Ukraine. On…
Could cutting inheritance tax keep the Tories in power?
Is cutting, or abolishing, inheritance tax the key to keeping the Tories in power? Inheritance tax is certainly unpopular and…
Cormac McCarthy is gone – but his works remain brilliantly alive
Until yesterday afternoon, Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. (better known to readers as Cormac) was the greatest living American writer –…
Britain must not import America’s abortion culture war
British politicians tend to avoid the issue of abortion. The subject divides America bitterly, yet Britain has opted for consensus.…
The visionary madness of Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi, whose state funeral will take place today in Milan, was the first modern populist. The media tycoon became a politician to take…
Carla Foster needs compassion, not punishment for her abortion
In May 2020, two months into the pandemic, Carla Foster, a 44-year-old mother-of-three took pills at home to trigger an…
GDP grows by 0.2% as the economy continues to stagnate
The economy grew by 0.2 per cent in April, following on from a confirmed 0.3 per cent contraction in March. This fits…
Everything we know about the Nottingham attack so far
Three people have died and three were injured in an attack in the centre of Nottingham yesterday. In the early…
Donald Trump’s arraignment was a circus
The scene in Miami was somewhat less than promised today. The predicted tens of thousands of protesters were replaced instead…
There’s malarkey aplenty in the Bidens’ shell game
“Because that’s where the money is.” That was the answer that Willie Sutton, an expert in his chosen field, gave when…
To back Trump or to steer clear?
Republican politicians face a conundrum in Donald Trump’s indictment that reminds me of a scene from Pride and Prejudice. Confronted…
Carla Foster’s case isn’t a miscarriage of justice
What’s the difference between infanticide and an abortion at eight months’ gestation? This is one of the difficult questions thrown…
Topless trans guests reveal systemic inequality at the White House
The White House lawn became the latest battleground in the “Free the Nipple” fight this weekend. A shocking display of…
Carla Foster’s fate shows the need to reform Britain’s abortion laws
Carla Foster spent last night in a prison cell. In 2020, after having obtained abortion pills under false pretences, the…
Don’t get too excited about deglobalisation
One difference between the rivalry with China and the cold war is that the Soviet Union was completely economically segregated…
What good will locking up Carla Foster do?
During the Covid-19 pandemic, a 44-year-old woman, Carla Foster, unlawfully aborted her unborn baby. She procured the necessary drugs from…
Boris Johnson: ‘I’ll be back’
Boris Johnson formally resigned as an MP yesterday – but don’t expect the former PM to throw in the towel…
Putin’s anti-western oil alliance is coming unstuck
As Russia frantically attempts to hold on to its territorial gains in the face of the much-anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive, there…
Berlusconi was the first leader to glimpse the looming migrant crisis
Silvio Berlusconi should be remembered for more than just his passion for football and sex. He was the first European…
