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The trouble with Joe Biden’s trans declaration
Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility – just like the preceding 89 days of 2023. But, jesting aside, it…
Elon Musk is wrong to call for a pause on the AI race
On 2 August 1939, Albert Einstein – at that time the most famous scientist in the world – put his…
Even Donald Trump’s critics should be troubled by these charges
A New York grand jury has indicted former president Donald Trump over alleged ‘hush money’ payments to Stormy Daniels, an adult film…
Britain joining CPTPP is a triumph for the Tories
This morning ministers have confirmed that Britain has joined the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) – the first new…
The CPTPP trade deal shatters the ‘little Englander’ Brexit myth
Britain’s acceptance into the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) will be presented by the government as a triumph,…
Why Democrats shouldn’t celebrate the charges against Donald Trump
The indictment of former president Donald Trump as part of an investigation into hush money paid in 2016 to an ex porn…
Why did Guy Pearce apologise for this trans tweet?
Hollywood actor Guy Pearce has apologised for posting a pro-trans tweet. That’s where we’re at now with the culture war.…
A history lesson for Joe Biden
Some moderately clever people, reflecting on the confusing morass of current events, knowingly quote George Santayana’s most famous observation: that…
Is this the reason Harry and Meghan stepped down as working Royals?
Stepping down as working royals would ‘provide our family with the space to focus on the next chapter, including the…
It’s time for Congress to take back its war powers
On March 29, more than twenty years after the United States commenced Operation Shock and Awe in Baghdad, the Senate…
The kidnapping of a journalist and Russia’s descent into thugocracy
It’s a crude but inescapable fact of history that many states had their origins in better-organised bandit gangs. It’s a…
The sex lives of writers
A fellow writer recently asked me if I would prefer to be famous as a great writer or famous as…
How trans ideology took over our schools
Concern with what schools are teaching about sex, gender and relationships has been growing. Parents worry their children are being…
Amsterdam’s lazy campaign against British tourists
Amsterdam has launched a campaign telling rowdy Brits to stay away. Men between the age of 18 and 35 are…
Rishi Sunak now sees a future for fossil fuels in Britain
The location of Rishi Sunak and Grant Shapps’s net zero relaunch today shows there has been a change of emphasis…
Joining CPTPP shows Britain is finally seizing the benefits of Brexit
Even the most ardent Brexiteers would likely admit that the UK has been slow to embrace one of the biggest…
The Tories should think again on targeting Netflix
If you want to understand the curious attitude of our government towards media freedom, look at two provisions in the…
Putin’s crackdown on Russia’s school children
In Russia, nowhere – and no one – is safe from the insidious reach of Putin’s war in Ukraine. In April 2022, during a school…
Cost-cutting in the kitchen with Budget Bytes
Have you heard about the latest food trend sweeping the nation? It’s called “whimpering over your grocery bill.” In the…
Humza Yousaf’s cabinet will do little to unite the SNP
Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf has risked widening the split within the SNP by effectively ousting Kate Forbes from the…
Why Germans are going wild for King Charles
King Charles III is going down a storm in Berlin. Hundreds of wellwishers have turned out to greet the King…
In defence of landlords
Whisper it millennials, but YIMBYism (Yes In My Back Yard) might be gathering momentum. Recent surveys have found more people agree than…
The Good Friday Agreement hasn’t solved Northern Ireland’s troubles
Northern Ireland is a few weeks out from a Davos-style gathering of the great and the good to mark 25…
Westminster School and the sad decline of boys’ schools
Westminster School, one of Britain’s oldest public schools, has announced it will go fully ‘co-ed’ from 2030. Having first admitted girls to…
The plan to house migrants on barges could soon come unstuck
Frank Sinatra once sang about the seductive properties of bright and shiny ephemera. ‘Her heart will sing, singa-linga, wearing baubles,…
