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The police service is rotten to the core
A report published today by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services for England and Wales should come as…
Rishi Sunak’s first U-turn as PM
Just over a week into Rishi Sunak’s premiership and the new prime minister has performed his first government U-turn. After…
It looks like Bibi is back from the dead
Could it really be over? As Israeli political reporters stand before their cameras or hunch over their keyboards, their brains…
The Zulu’s new king brings peace, for a moment
A new king of the Zulu was crowned at the weekend. Thousands in South Africa went to Durban to watch…
Saving San Francisco
San Francisco mayor London Breed held a press conference on October 5 concerning her city’s most deadly problem: the open…
The barbarism of Canada’s euthanasia regime
“After a recent experience caring for a patient receiving medical assistance in dying, I felt distressed and uncomfortable. How should…
Why are Democrats more focused on rape and incest than inflation?
Amid 40-year-high inflation, dwindling investment portfolios, and 20-year high mortgage rates, the Democratic Party appears most concerned with protecting the…
Have we finally reached Peak Pride?
Have we reached Peak Pride? As a gay man, I suppose I should feel gratified by the fervor with which…
We should be better than Paul Pelosi conspiracy theories
Always give it three days. This is a golden rule of journalism that requires reporters and commentators to wait when…
America’s military isn’t ready for a war with China
China’s 20th Party Congress concluded on October 23, and President Xi Jinping secured a norm-breaking third term as leader of…
Putin goes to war on LGBT rights
When I moved to Rostov-on-Don, in the south of Russia, in 2018 for what was to be four happy years,…
What BP’s soaring profits tell us about our dependence on oil
So much for those ‘stranded assets’ which former Bank of England governor Mark Carney and many others tried to warn…
Why Matt Hancock signed up for I’m a Celeb
Matt Hancock has this morning had the whip suspended over his decision to appear on the new series of ITV’s…
The Tories are addicted to self-destruction
Well, that round of party unity was fun, wasn’t it? Rishi Sunak, the pragmatist, ushered in an unfamiliar sense of…
Rishi Sunak’s potential tax rises would guarantee a recession
It could be National Insurance. It could be income tax. Perhaps it could even be a rise in VAT. We…
Why Democrats’ ‘election denier’ narrative is backfiring
In New Hampshire, the Senate race between Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan and Retired Army Brigadier General Donald Bolduc is heating…
Why Sunak would find it tough to lose Braverman
The safest place for a minister in a crisis is meant to be the despatch box. The thinking is that…
Gove gets the gang back together
It’s not just Suella Braverman and Dominic Raab who have got their old jobs back. Following the Truss interregnum, normal…
Will the Tories copy Le Pen?
In the three years since its landslide victory in the 2019 election, the Conservative party has shed nearly seven million…
Why journalists shouldn’t be on TikTok
Americans: watch your backs. Last week, Forbes released a bombshell report that ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, the popular…
Russia's 'hunger plan' is back
Until this week, the prospect of globalfamine had disappeared from the headlines, but earlier in Russia’s waragainst Ukraine, a sinister…
Don’t let paranoid progressives ruin Halloween
There was a time in recent memory (i.e., my childhood) when on October 31, kids dressed up in whatever costumes…
Does Elon Musk have the stomach for this fight?
Appropriately for Twitter, the arrival of Elon Musk has been regarded by some as the coming of the antichrist and…
Eurozone inflation hits record 10.7%
Britain’s economic problems can, of course, be laid at the door of Brexit. We know this because it was asserted…
The Channel migrant crisis is spiralling out of control
When did the scale of illegal immigration into the UK via Channel dinghies become a first order political issue for…
