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The Bank of England is right: Brits can’t keep demanding pay rises
Bank of England chief economist Huw Pill isn’t going to win a popularity contest. Speaking on a podcast for Columbia…
The narcissism of Just Stop Oil
Just Stop Oil (JSO) activists have an insatiable appetite for mayhem. Protesters from the environmental group are slowing down traffic…
Why are so many Indian migrants crossing the Channel?
Indians now make up the second-biggest cohort of Channel migrants: 675 Indians arrived in small boats in the first three…
Good riddance to the metaverse
So pack it all in then. Away with the wisecracking butterfly that sits on your shoulder during work meetings. Out…
Could the UK’s new China policy prevent a second cold war?
What a difference a year makes. Three prime ministers ago, in April 2022, Liz Truss gave a characteristically punchy speech…
Why Bernie Sanders has no heir
The Democratic establishment has never looked more vulnerable to progressive upheaval; Biden’s supposed leadership bridge to a new generation leads…
The dollar is here to stay
Reports of the death of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency are greatly exaggerated. Fortunately for America, while…
Biden’s 2024 announcement is begging for the return of Trump
Joe Biden’s campaign officially launched with a video released in the early morning hours featuring a message bizarrely limited in…
Why should gardeners learn to love weeds?
Dirt, is, as the anthropologist Mary Douglas famously put it, ‘matter out of place’. For her, ‘there is no such…
China is right to chuckle at Britain’s foreign policy
The Foreign Office has seven ministers, 16,000 employees, an £11bn credit card and one of these days it might get itself a foreign policy. If the…
Labour’s ‘lessons for boys’ plan is a sinister sideshow
What are schools for? The answer used to be obvious: school was where children went to learn how to read,…
Can the Foreign Office avoid the mistakes of Kabul in Sudan?
A British evacuation of Sudan began last night after a 72-hour ceasefire was agreed. Ministers, however, are anxious about the…
Britain’s bloody history in Sudan
A 72 hour truce between rival military factions has been brokered in Sudan’s civil war by US Secretary of State…
Jolyon Maugham’s opening sentence might be the worst of all time
In the first sentence of his book, Jolyon Maugham – the anti-Brexit KC best known for clubbing a fox to…
Climate activism must not be allowed to undermine climate science
Student activist Edred Whittingham baffled the snooker world last week by jumping onto the green baize at the Snooker World…
Tucker Carlson for president?
This past weekend Tucker Carlson gave the keynote address at the Heritage Foundation’s Fiftieth Anniversary Summit and Gala. His speech wasn’t…
Bryna Pomp is MAD about jewelry
Open Bryna Pomp’s wardrobe and you’ll find a uniform of near identical navy blue and black dresses. Yet squirreled away…
Why did Rupert Murdoch fire his most successful host?
Ever since it began in 2016, Tucker Carlson Tonight has been easily the most interesting news show on American television.…
There’s more to corsets than meets the eye
There’s a scene in the recent film Corsage in which Vicky Krieps, playing the melancholy anorexic Empress Elisabeth of Austria, indulges in…
Was Tucker Carlson getting too big for his boots?
All change at Murdoch Towers: Tucker Carlson has hosted his last primetime show at Fox News. His departure was clearly…
Why are we allowing solar panels to swallow up our farmland?
We have spent a year talking about energy security, but with inflation in food prices running at 19 per cent,…
Real Madrid and Barcelona go to war over their links to Franco
A match-fixing scandal centred on Barcelona FC has spilled over into politics, showing that decades-old divisions die hard in Spain.…
Giving anonymity to paedophiles is a threat to our justice system
Substantial constraints on the freedom of the press tend to accumulate from seemingly small restrictions. Events last week in a…
Can Joe Biden win again?
In America last week, a 92-year-old media titan agreed to pay out a $787 million (£632 million) settlement with Dominion…
The backlash to ‘renaming’ the Brecon Beacons is a gift to nationalists
‘As tedious as a tired horse…worse than a smoky house’ was how Shakespeare’s Hotspur described Wales’s national hero, Owain Glyndŵr.…
