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Among Dubai’s weary migrant workers
The E100 bus is not somewhere you will find an Emirati. Departing about every thirty minutes from 4 a.m. onward…
The weirdest stuff you can get at the Twitter auction
Elon Musk’s Twitter is holding a massive auction to sell its surplus office assets — and it is quite an…
Germany has no excuse for not sending tanks to Ukraine
When a man is in a hole, he is best advised to stop digging. When a German chancellor is in…
Can I now free the nipple on Instagram and Facebook?
It’s a funny old world. Cockburn noticed today that Facebook and Instagram have been told to overhaul their longstanding ban…
PMQs gets worse every week
Gruesome rhetoric at PMQs. The horror began with Sir Keir Starmer revealing that he can tell the time. ‘It’s three…
So much for Biden’s ‘return to normalcy’
It was supposed to be so different. Sturdy old Scranton Joe Biden at the helm. Honesty, decency, unity. What a…
Is it time to replace Scotland’s sporting anthem?
‘Flower of Scotland’ is the unofficial national anthem north of the border but soon enough we may never hear its…
Is the Trussite Tory ‘growth group’ a threat to Rishi Sunak?
Tory MPs gathered last night for the first meeting of a new growth caucus. Under the working title ‘Conservative Growth…
Is Putin about to gamble on a second mobilisation wave?
Is Vladimir Putin finally about to announce a second mobilisation wave? Ukraine has been warning for weeks that up to half-a-million…
Is sharing cake in the office really like passive smoking?
‘If nobody brought in cakes into the office, I would not eat cakes in the day, but because people do…
Ukraine’s interior minister dies in helicopter crash
Denis Monastyrsky, Ukraine’s interior minister was amongst 15 people killed in a helicopter crash in the outskirts of Kyiv this…
Food price inflation hits 16.8 per cent
Oil prices are down, wholesale gas prices are down, so why isn’t inflation falling a lot faster than it is?…
Macron commits to nuclear energy while Britain dithers
The French are falling back in love with nuclear energy, and so is their president. In 2019, only 34 per…
Here’s how extreme Democrats have gone on abortion
A great deal of the conversation about abortion in America is based on lies about who occupies the more extreme…
A deluge of deviants in Davos?
Sex workers take Switzerland! As the World Economic Forum gets underway in Davos, it’s not just politicians and business leaders…
Are we being too downbeat about Britain’s economy?
Economic optimism is in short supply these days – but has pessimism about the UK’s economy been overegged by the…
Truss and Kwarteng start their own companies
It’s a busy time for ex-Prime Ministers. Theresa May has been totting up her thousands in speaking fees while Boris…
Why Sweden and Finland still haven’t joined NATO
Sweden and Finland officially applied to join NATO last May, overturning their long-standing policies of neutrality. If their membership goes…
Scotland’s gender bill mess was made in Westminster
Nicola Sturgeon is angry. The UK government has confirmed it will block her party’s controversial gender Bill, which removes key…
Colleges join the war on TikTok
TikTok likely hasn’t been too bothered about a bunch of crusty old senators and governors denouncing their social media platform.…
Is Germany’s defence minister up to the job?
After yesterday’s abrupt and humiliating departure of Germany’s defence minister, Christine Lambrecht, beleaguered chancellor Olaf Scholz has today appointed her…
Nicola Sturgeon and the truth about ‘transphobia’
This is a shameful week for Scottish nationalism. Let us state plainly what has happened: the government in Westminster has…
Rishi Sunak bows to the Online Safety Bill rebels
Rishi Sunak and Michelle Donelan will this afternoon bow to the inevitable and accept rebel changes to the Online Safety…
Even Iran’s mullahs have turned on Prince Harry
Is there anyone left who likes Prince Harry? His popularity is plunging, his allies have turned on him – and…
Nicola Sturgeon isn’t above the law
The first thing to say is that the argument between the Scottish government and the British government over the former’s…
