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The importance of remembering the Omagh bombing
On this day, 25 years ago, not long after the ink had dried on the Good Friday Agreement, a car…
WhatsApp is right to be angry about the UK’s encryption mess
The world’s biggest tech firms have lined up to lambast the latest incarnation of the Online Safety Bill and Investigatory…
‘No comment’: Biden’s response to deadly Maui wildfires
Let them eat pineapple? President Joe Biden, who was approached by reporters while leaving the beach on Sunday, declined to…
Is the Musk-Zuckerberg cage match off?
It may not come as a great surprise to readers that Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg will not, in fact,…
Men don’t belong at lesbian speed dating events
Lesbian speed dating sounds fun. It reminds me of the old joke ‘What does a lesbian bring on her first…
Should Britain send migrants to France’s former African colonies?
The cross-Channel migrant crisis would perhaps be solved in a single stroke if only French patrols would tow the boats…
Do the police think ‘lesbian’ is a term of abuse?
Reading that a 16-year-old autistic girl had been dragged from her home by seven cops after reportedly saying a female…
Why Keir Starmer should be wary of Blair
During his successful 2020 leadership campaign Keir Starmer claimed he was his own man, saying, ‘I can think for myself,…
What’s behind Zelensky’s latest purge?
President Zelensky has announced that he is dismissing the heads of all Ukraine’s regional military recruitment offices and replacing them…
Toilet politics needn’t be difficult
August is traditionally the silly season in politics but we seem to be stuck in silly decade of policy, and…
How the Tories plan to take the fight to Labour on the NHS
Brace yourselves for health week. After the rip-roaring success of the government’s ‘stop the boats’ week, you might forgive the…
Will the SNP ditch ‘fringe extremist’ Greens?
Is First Minister Humza Yousaf at risk of sacrificing crucial SNP votes by refusing to ditch his party’s coalition with…
The drop in language students has nothing to do with Brexit
The number of students studying modern languages is plummeting, The Sunday Times says today. ‘The number of pupils studying German…
The mystery of the Baltic god in Kent
One of the stranger events of the summer of 2023 is the sudden and unexplained appearance, one night in early…
What explains Taiwan’s warmth towards Imperial Japan?
The online TaiwanPlus news agency reported recently that a new memorial had been unveiled in southern Taiwan to commemorate the…
Do we need a nationwide DNA database for crime?
When a man has spent 17 years in prison for a crime that he didn’t commit, there are many urgent…
Lincoln’s Inn has fallen for the latest fad
The story of the out-of-touch 1960s High Court judge asking counsel ‘Who are the Beatles? Are they giving evidence in…
Should we be looking at geo-engineering the climate?
Has a well-meaning international effort to cut pollution from ships contributed to a sudden warming of the waters in the…
Aliens probably exist, but they haven’t visited us
The military types who recently testified before a congressional hearing about their close encounters with UFOs were not the usual suspects…
The FOI response that exposed the SNP’s EU delusion
Tony Blair famously regretted his government’s introduction of freedom of information laws. ‘You idiot. You naive, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop. There…
Brighton rock bottom: How the Greens nearly destroyed the city I love
When you’re short-sighted, everyone seems attractive; for this reason, I don’t often wear my glasses, as I think myopia has…
Joe Biden was right to withdraw from Afghanistan
‘Today was hard. I can’t imagine what it was like for the families of those we left behind.’ That was…
National service is a bad idea that won’t go away
My father did National Service and was lucky enough to end up in Trieste, which was probably the best posting…
The unbearable strangeness of the Ukraine war
As a journalist, I’ve been on the periphery of quite a few wars: for example, I went to Bosnia as…
Dominic Cummings slams Sunak and calls for new party
There was a time when Boris backers accused Rishi Sunak of being in cahoots with Dominic Cummings, as part of…
