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The misdirected talent of Mizzy, the ‘TikTok terror’
Tessa Jowell once ignited a furious political row by claiming that inner-city youths active in criminal gangs were exhibiting a…
Welcome to Ouarzawood, Moroccan desert outpost and set of many major movies
It’s been a nearly seven-hour drive up and down the Atlas Mountains from Marrakech before a roundabout appears at the…
The joy of missing out
As I write this the coronation of King Charles hasn’t happened yet, but I’m having great fun watching the procession…
Does a ‘Pride progress’ flag really make rugby more inclusive?
The Rugby Football Union will fly the ‘Pride Progress’ flag at Twickenham this weekend, when a World XV team play…
Online shopping has not killed off the high street, yet
It wasn’t supposed to turn out this way, not at the beginning of the year when the wise and good…
Martin Amis and the death of the lascivious young man
In the days since Martin Amis died at 73 of oesophageal cancer, the papers have been full of tributes. Mostly…
Is Yevgeny Prigozhin having second thoughts about the Ukraine war?
Something strange is happening to Yevgeny Prigozhin. The chief of Vladimir Putin’s mercenary army in Ukraine has begun withdrawing his…
Is America a republic in name only?
Is the United States a one-party state? Surely not. Just look at the ballots the next time you vote. There…
Does Gary Lineker deserve Amnesty’s human rights award?
‘We need to be careful with the language we use,’ said Gary Lineker as he picked up an award from…
Is a referendum the answer to solving France’s migrant crisis?
Paris has a problem. The city currently houses some 5,000 migrants in hotels, much to the chagrin of the capital’s…
What Parkrun gets wrong about trans rights
Siân Longthorpe’s record breaking time of 18 minutes and 53 seconds in the Porthcawl Parkrun highlights all that is wrong…
When will the Tories come clean on their migration plan?
Net annual immigration – which successive Tory manifestos promised the electorate would be brought down below 100,000 – has just…
Just Stop Oil’s Chelsea Flower Show protest is a new low
You have to sink low, very low, to target the Chelsea Flower show for an environmental protest. But the boys…
Net migration hits record high – but is significantly lower than expected
It’s three years since the UK formally left the European Union and cut off free movement, and net migration has…
DeSantis’s presidential ambitions are crashing to earth
People imagine that the real world is similar to the dark side of the TV show Succession. For some reason…
The trouble with Britain’s net migration figure
Where to start with the net migration figures? As someone who has generally defended liberal immigration policies, I could just shout,…
New Zealand’s opposition embroiled in AI-attack ad storm
New Zealand’s opposition National party has admitted using artificial intelligence (AI) to generate fake images for its political attack ads.…
Electricity is to blame for stubbornly high energy prices
So much for price-fixing. The energy price cap is finally set to fall, with the result that the average household…
Can DeSantis clear the giant orange roadblock?
To win the Republican nomination, you have to knock out Donald Trump. That’s no easy task — polls currently show…
A disastrous DeSantis 2024 ‘launch’ on Twitter Spaces
Free tickets to Disney World: maybe that’s what Ron the aspiring Don should give to the clever staffer who thought of…
Sunak should stop pretending that he controls inflation
The government is delighted with today’s inflation update. Rishi Sunak released a clip this afternoon, talking about his government’s efforts…
What’s this? A good joke from Sir Keir?
Strange tactics by Sir Keir at PMQs. He raised the issue of broken promises on immigration, which gave Rishi Sunak…
DeSantis should talk about Jeffrey Epstein tonight
Ron DeSantis’s choice to enter the presidential stakes with a Twitter Spaces conversation is unusual. Odder still is the news that…
Boris vs Rishi, round VII
The decision by the Cabinet Office to refer Boris Johnson to the police after his ministerial diary revealed visits by…
What will it take to crash the housing market?
Is there anything that might cause the much-predicted crash in UK house prices? Not – evidently – a pandemic (which perversely…
