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Sleaze watchdog probes Sunak’s interests
Bang goes Rishi Sunak’s big maths speech. Fresh from delivering a paean to the joys of numeracy, the Prime Minister…
Brecon Beacons sheds its name and logo in eco-crusade
‘The simplest way to explain the behaviour of any bureaucratic organisation’ claimed Robert Conquest ‘is to assume that it is…
How Rishi Sunak’s spring challenge could decide the election
Over the past month, there has been increasing optimism within the Tory party that the political situation may not be…
Take the Rishi Sunak maths challenge
Rishi Sunak is back in the headlines today, saying it’s time for greater maths literacy. But when it comes to…
How Liz Truss is wooing Washington
Many Brits who’ve outstayed their welcome in the Old Country head across the Pond for pastures new and the chance…
The trouble with censoring Jeeves and Wooster
It would take longer than I’ve got to comb through copies of Thank you, Jeeves and Right Ho, Jeeves, to…
How Russia became obsessed with fake news
On 1 July, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, known as the ‘Butcher of Mariupol’, delivered a statement about recent attacks on apartment…
Belief in God doesn’t come from a fear of death
When I was a teenager someone asked me if I was scared of dying. No, I said, but I’m a…
Should Ukrainians stop speaking Russian?
A young woman called Lyudmila walks into a cafe in Odessa, the southern Ukrainian city. Her phone is switched on…
The French left is becoming anti-woke
Nearly one in two left-wing voters in France believes the country has too many immigrants. When the same polling company…
Remainers should be honest about the costs of Brexit
Those opposed to leaving the European Union repeatedly accuse Brexit of being based on ignorance fed by lies. The ‘lie’…
Shame on those who abandoned Peng Shuai
No one really expects much in the way of principles or morality from those charged with running international sport. The…
Another grim reminder of Japan’s violent politics
Has Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida just survived an assassination attempt? Kishida was evacuated from the site of a stump speech in the fishing…
How boredom begat James Bond
It is sobering to think that if Ann Rothermere had been a less enthusiastic painter, James Bond might never have…
Rishi Sunak’s immigration delusion
Few observers of politics can by now be in much doubt about the defective nature of Keir Starmer’s antennae when…
Trans surgery and the problem with Channel 4’s Naked Education
When Channel 4’s new programme Naked Education – in which adults strip naked in front of children – was launched, it promised viewers it would…
We can’t rely on the police to clean up mobile phone theft
A call from my younger son’s secondary school was not what I was expecting at 11.30 a.m., but as soon…
Prep isn’t ‘back’ — it never left
Open up any social media and type in the word “prep.” I just did it: to my horror, I was…
An avalanche of fun in Winter Park, Colorado
Arriving to spend a month in Denver, Colorado, decision-paralysis hit me like a ton of bricks. Almost as hard as…
The US intelligence leak and the hypocrisy of the spy world
So what did everyone learn from the massive trove of more than a hundred top secret US documents a 21-year-old…
Is King Charles bringing Andrew back into the fold?
I am beginning to wonder if there are, in fact, two incarnations of King Charles that co-exist simultaneously. The first…
Is this the end of long Covid?
How big a deal is long Covid and can it be treated? Opinions range from it being a serious impediment to…
Biden can no longer afford to indulge Irish nationalism
For the British government, the Biden visit to Belfast posed one major exam question: would the pageantry of a pan-nationalist…
Why Daniel Radcliffe is wrong about children changing gender
Daniel Radcliffe has told a group of young people that adults worried about children changing gender have a ‘slightly condescending…
Does Joe Biden have CTE from rugby?
President Biden is being an American tourist in Ireland this week. In comments to the Irish Parliament in Dublin today,…
