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In defence of ‘nuisance’ buskers
I’ve always been partial to buskers. I’m sympathetic to beggars of most kinds – except the aggressive rotters, of which…
Rishi Sunak is in office but not in power
Can Rishi Sunak still catch a break or has the plughole spiral of British politics now dragged him firmly into…
You can’t cancel Picasso
In the sunlit courtyard of the Picasso Museum in Málaga, Bernard Ruiz-Picasso is telling me about his grandfather, the greatest…
Gaza and the terror of tank warfare
As Israel encircles Gaza City, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) is conducting what we in the British Army call Fibua, or…
Britain’s synagogues have never been fuller
It has been just over a month since the Hamas massacres on 7 October. For British Jews, these past few…
Suella Braverman’s clumsiness makes Met reform less likely
Suella Braverman’s career as Home Secretary may be over very soon. But a long tail of it will be the…
Could the world go to war again?
Armistice Day is an appropriate moment to reflect on why democracies triumphed in the two world wars that blighted the…
Joe Manchin has every reason to run for president
Joe Manchin’s decision to retire from the US Senate is not surprising. The tea leaves have been there for a…
What Harry’s legal win could mean for press regulation
The phone-hacking saga has just been given a new lease of life after a judge ruled that Prince Harry can…
The shrinking lifespan of the college president
Twenty-five years ago I published an essay titled “Dogfish.” It was not about the little sharks that skim along the…
‘Humanitarian pauses’ will help Israel defeat Hamas in Gaza
As the IDF continues to close in on Hamas in the heart of Gaza, the US announced that Israel will…
Prince Harry wins his latest legal battle – but at what cost?
Prince Harry has won a small victory in his High Court battle: a judge ruled this morning that his privacy…
Where does the Suella Braverman debacle go next?
The debacle concerning Suella Braverman makes the front page of most papers today after No. 10 confirmed that the Home…
The negative side of being ‘sex positive’
‘Let’s talk about sex, baby,’ sang female rap duo Salt-N-Pepa back in 1990. More than 30-years later, it can seem…
The spectre of recession continues to haunt the UK economy
The UK economy grew 0.2 per cent in September. This followed 0.1 per cent growth in August, revised downwards from…
Britain must stand up for its Jews
In his speech to parliament on Tuesday, King Charles declared that Britain was ‘committed’ to tackling anti-Semitism. His remarks were…
The Church of England must clarify its stance on homosexuality
The Church of England has realised that its decades of dithering over homosexuality must end. It must finally bite the…
Can Germany’s ‘Rwanda-style’ migrant plan keep the AfD at bay?
Germany is facing one of the greatest political upheavals in its modern history. Polls indicate that the ruling coalition would…
The pointless spectacle of the pro-Palestine march
Now that Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, has defied calls to ban a pro-Palestinian march through London on…
The Oaxaca old fashioned, America’s spirited new classic
The sun is ebbing, casting a wash of orange and gold on a city inching towards autumn. There’s that tinge…
Actually, the 2023 elections show voters want divided government, not Democrats
Let the handwringing begin! Long before the polls closed in Tuesday’s off-cycle elections, pundits were already racing to assign blame…
Sunak has no easy options in the Suella Braverman row
Tory whips are doing a ring around of their MPs to find out what they think of the row over…
Suella Braverman is right for once
There can be few sins in politics graver than giving Suella Braverman a point. Yet that is exactly what the…
Suella Braverman has a point about Northern Ireland
Suella Braverman’s description of pro-Palestinian protests as being ‘disturbingly reminiscent of Ulster’ has given the Province’s political class yet another…
Sacking Suella could sink Sunak
If prizes were dished out for saying what the unwashed and un-woke are thinking then Suella Braverman would be garlanded…
