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The rise of rowdy theatre audiences isn’t a surprise
The incident at Manchester’s Palace Theatre last Friday night at the close of a performance of the musical version of The…
Are Labour’s attack ads that successful?
Over at Labour HQ, there’s a mood of triumphalism about the party’s string of attack adverts. Newspapers are full of…
Can the spiritual element of the coronation survive?
Almost as soon as Charles III acceded to the throne last September, we began to hear whispers and speculation about…
Joe Biden’s hostility to Britain only harms the United States
This week Joe Biden is swanning around Ireland in what must be, according to his Irish-American fantasies, the climax of…
China is forcing its chatbots to be socialist
So now it’s official, Chinese chatbots will have to be ‘socialist’ and woe betide any tech company that allows its…
Biden needs Trump
As Joe Biden tours Northern Ireland this week to mark the 25-year anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, the big…
Interest rates can’t go back to being as low as they were
Good news – at least for those who hold faith in economic forecasts. The IMF has just eradicated half the…
Macron’s muddled foreign policy
Even the French reports of President Macron’s state visit to China last week were unflattering. The highly choreographed ceremonies with…
Violent extremists won’t spoil Joe Biden’s visit to Northern Ireland
What can violent extremists do to wreck Joe Biden’s first visit to Northern Ireland? The answer is precious little. The…
Did palace officials joke that Prince Harry had Stockholm syndrome?
An ‘archetype’ is a ‘universally understood term or pattern of behaviour, a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned or…
The CBI has outlived any useful purpose
The director-general has been forced to stand down amid allegations of misconduct. There are allegations against others inside the organisation of harassment…
Women are being ignored again in the surrogacy debate
Just over five years ago, I wrote an article here about sex and gender and the issues raised by policies…
Joe Biden’s shameful excuses for the Afghan withdrawal fiasco
It is an iron law that if governments put out important documents just ahead of a long holiday weekend there…
Is Giorgia Meloni stoking Britain’s migrant crisis?
In the last week over 1,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel, which is twice the number of people that…
It has become illegal to support Russia in the Czech Republic
Supporting Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine is now socially and morally beyond the pale in most of the western world.…
Coronation carriage canned for Speaker Hoyle
It’s less than a month to go until the Coronation and already the media are going mad for anything royal-related.…
Elon Musk is right about BBC funding
The BBC has today been using its various news platforms to protest against being described as ‘government funded’ by Twitter.…
Why Britain needs more marriage
Hungary is something of a bête noire in the international community. Viktor Orban and his government have had much-deserved condemnation…
Why ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ is still the best of the BBC
Radio Four recently broadcast a ‘Best of’ edition of From Our Own Correspondent, marking 100 years since the birth of…
We live in a one-way shame culture
Anyone who has ever published a book and been dismayed by an anonymous review online will have cheered inwardly at…
Labour is right: the Tories are soft on law and order
The spouse of one of Britain’s major party leaders would be forgiven for feeling both queasy and furious about Labour’s…
Ukraine has exposed the limits of drone warfare
As Ukraine prepares for an expected offensive in the spring or summer, key weapons from western countries are bolstering the country’s armed…
It’s no surprise some Irish-Americans remain clueless about the Troubles
For Democrats and their friends in the Irish-American community, there were really only two parties who achieved the Good Friday Agreement:…
The bodies keep the score in Lviv
Lviv, Ukraine At the Lychakiv cemetery in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv the bodies keep the score. Within its…
Northern Ireland’s flawed peace has still saved countless lives
A fortnight before the signing of the Belfast Agreement on Good Friday 1998, 25 years ago tomorrow, two republican terrorists…
