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Government borrowing hits £27.4 billion
Rishi Sunak ruffled his own party’s feathers last week when – in reference to last autumn’s market turmoil – he…
How did this killer asylum seeker hoodwink the authorities?
In 2018, a 16-year-old boy called Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai shot dead two men in Serbia with a burst of eighteen bullets…
The problem with Britain’s benefits debate
A report claiming a majority of us receive more in benefits than we stump up in tax made headlines yesterday. The analysis produced by…
Why Putin needs Prigozhin
It’s been a tense couple of weeks for Yevgeny Prigozhin, the businessman and founder the of Wagner Group of mercenaries.…
We don’t need a ‘diverse’ coronation
Refugees and the NHS, we are told, will be at the heart of King Charles’s ‘diverse’ coronation in May. You’d…
A pilot explains why air travel has become so stressful
Add your tropical dream vacation/work trip/family wedding to the list of lingering Covid consequences. If you’re like me, every time…
With Ron Klain gone, who’s running the Biden administration?
After President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address last year, White House chief of staff and the administration’s resident…
Have we become too dependent on the state?
I have to tip my hat to Civitas. The ‘Tufton Street’ think tank made quite a splash on Monday, including…
Morris Chang: the microchip mogul caught between Biden and Xi
At the center of the world’s tech sector sits a Taiwanese chip tycoon most people have never heard of. Morris Chang…
John Bolton’s clueless presidential dreams
A couple of major news outlets got egg on their faces last week after reporting that John Bolton had officially…
East Asia’s mask obsession is a catastrophe the West must avoid
In the Red Square Rooftop Vodka Bar of the sleekly towering Novotel Hotel, on soi 4, Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok, it…
Is the Conservative Democratic Organisation the Tory Momentum?
As a Labour member and supporter, I feel a certain schadenfreude watching the newly-formed Conservative Democratic Organisation (CDO) take the…
Ukraine is paying a heavy price for Nato’s dithering
It is winter in Ukraine. The ground is frozen and hard. Groups of soldiers on both sides struggle in the…
Can Nadhim Zahawi survive his tax troubles?
As a new week begins in Westminster, Nadhim Zahawi is under increasing pressure over his tax affairs. The Tory party…
The curious carefulness of Nadhim Zahawi’s ‘carelessness’
The cliché is that it’s scandals about sex that tend to do for Tories, and scandals about money that do…
Putin’s desperate recruits are in a life-and-death scramble for kit
As Vladimir Putin seemingly dithers over the question of whether to send a further 500,000 of his citizens onto the…
Will Prince Harry and Meghan spoil the King’s Coronation?
As the furore caused by the publication of Spare may – or may not – be dying down, there are…
The think tank implicated by Biden’s classified documents
Joe Biden has become the Typhoid Mary of classified documents, spreading them as he goes. They keep turning up in…
It’s time to make Boris Johnson special envoy to Ukraine
The videos showed a typical summit: Vlodomyr Zelensky next to Ukraine’s flag and Boris Johnson next to the Union Flag.…
The Tories are tired of Boris’s ceaseless scandals
The political world splits in two whenever fresh evidence emerges that Boris Johnson does not think that life’s rules and…
LSE is right to cut ties with Stonewall
The London School of Economics (LSE) shocked their student union this week by informing them that the university is disaffiliating…
Will Christopher Luxon be New Zealand’s prime minister?
Following the resignation of Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s Labour government will select its new leader, and the country’s next prime…
The night train to Kyiv
After several months in the UK, the lady sleeping on the opposite bunk on the night train to Kyiv told…
The tragic decline of political rhetoric
After the first regular BBC TV broadcasts in 1930, it took the House of Commons 60 years to agree to…
Britain is not a basket case
It’s a dinner party in Brussels and I try to turn the conversation to the war in Ukraine. My host…
