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Manchester United failed Mason Greenwood
So, the Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood has not been found guilty of the offences of attempted rape and coercive…
The endless hypocrisy of the comedy class
Personally I find TV panel shows pretty unbearable. They’re like being at a student party full of lairy smartarses you…
Jeremy Hunt’s big spending pledges are coming home to roost
The Office for National Statistics reports this morning that public sector net borrowing in July came in at £4.3 billion. This is…
2024 is America’s ‘lock him up’ election
It’s time to acknowledge the obvious truth about 2024: it’s going to be an election about who Americans want to…
The virtue-signaling behind the renaming of the Middlebury College chapel
Early on the morning of September 27, 2021, Middlebury College president Laurie Patton had a stone bearing the name of…
Starmer will have cash to spend, thanks to the Tories
It’s great to see Philip Collins back in the Times: you may agree or disagree with him as a columnist but his writing…
Should Lucy Letby have been allowed to miss her sentencing?
Until a few years ago I had never heard of a single case of a murderer declining to go into…
Full text: The Lucy Letby sentencing remarks
Lucy Letby has been sentenced to a whole life jail term, after being found guilty of murdering seven babies and…
Sadiq Khan’s racial dystopia
Imagine if the Mayor of London was a Tory and his website featured an image of a black family alongside…
Is the Home Office working against the Tories?
It has long been suggested by senior politicians from both main parties that civil servants in the Home Office pick…
We are facing an epidemic of online fraud
At what point are we going to drop the fiction that acquisitive crime is on the wane and admit that…
Watch: DeSantis grinds teeth during grilling
Poor Ron DeSantis. Once, he was the frontrunner to take over the Republican mantle from Trump. But now, following a…
Sanctions are failing to turn Putin’s oligarchs against him
When personal sanctions on Russian oligarchs and officials were imposed by the UK, US and EU after Putin’s invasion, the…
What the future holds for women’s football
Well, that’s the end of that. Football, like an unrepentant runaway, stubbornly refuses to come home. Spain, deservedly probably, edged…
America has lost the war against Islamist terror in Africa
After 9/11, the US built a network of military outposts across the northern tier of Africa to fight a shadow…
After Sunak, who?
Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens, the author Fay Weldon once declared. This observation about life’s tendency…
Ireland’s bonkers plan to kill cows to save the planet
You have to hand it to the green movement. When it comes to their increasingly farcical and delusional race towards…
Christian churches are under attack in Pakistan
On Wednesday, 19 churches and more than 80 Christian homes in Pakistan were ransacked after the inhabitants of the city of Jaranwala…
Au revoir to Le Gavroche
You do not need to be a ‘food person’ to know the name Roux. Or to be familiar with Le…
The rise of the popcons
The Republican Party has to come to grips with populism. Donald Trump’s commanding lead in the race for the 2024…
You should read Simon Raven
It is high summer but in the early mornings you can already sense the first thrilling signs of autumn, the…
The National: ‘Can an independent Afghanistan offer lessons for Scotland?’
It’s a tough time for Scottish nationalists these days. Polling for indyref2 remains static while the SNP’s own ratings have…
Elon is offering us a raw deal with X
Elon Musk, the owner of X — once known as Twitter, may she rest in peace — is making Americans…
In praise of the Moscow mule
If called upon to declare the seven greatest cocktails of all time — a Magnificent Seven, as it were —…
China’s property sector is on the brink of disaster – again
Once, not that long ago, few people outside China had heard of the property developer Evergrande. Now it is synonymous…