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Why would Tory MPs trust Truss now?
Most Tory MPs went to bed last night convinced that their party was heading for an almighty showdown over the…
The bizarre story of the ‘Jewish Taliban’
One of the more bizarre stories to have hit the headlines in recent days was the unsuccessful attempt by police…
What’s so funny about Elon Musk?
At the end of last week, at an AI event in California, Elon Musk unveiled his latest project: a humanoid…
Is levelling up dead?
Does Liz Truss really believe in levelling up? She doesn’t talk about it that much, and it wasn’t really a…
What do the Tories have to show from their time in power?
After 12 years in Downing Street, four prime ministers (so far), two monarchs, and one mini-budget, the public are starting…
Is this a Black Wednesday moment for the Tories?
Kwasi Kwarteng delivered his mini-Budget one week after the thirtieth anniversary of Black Wednesday, when the markets forcibly ejected sterling…
Does Ukrainian exist?
After six months of war in Ukraine, most observers agree that the roots of Russian aggression lie in the country’s…
Is sanity returning to the trans debate?
At last, Mermaids, the UK charity for, in their own words, ‘gender variant and transgender children’ is under the spotlight.…
China’s lockdown nightmare is far from over
Another Covid-19 lockdown, another angry confrontation. This time it was on the streets of Shenzhen, China’s high-tech hub, where videos…
What Liz Truss should do now
Markets are nervous and they are right to be. The government has announced a huge, open-ended package of energy subsidies…
Will Giorgia Meloni be an enemy of Macron?
French elites are annoyed and perturbed that Italian elections have produced a new prime minister of the right, Giorgia Meloni,…
Will Nato accept Ukraine?
Shortly after the invasion of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky made an offer to Vladimir Putin. Ukraine would drop its ambition to…
‘Liz Truss hasn’t understood a word I wrote’, says PM’s favourite author
As I reported this summer, Liz Truss’s favourite historian is Rick Perlstein, the great chronicler of the rise of the…
Putin fires a warning to the West
‘The West has let their mask slip and revealed their true nature!’ That was Vladimir Putin’s message to a hall…
Can Liz Truss regain market confidence?
When the Liz Truss camp floated the idea of side-lining the Office for Budget Responsibility for her government’s first fiscal…
Even Putin’s minions are turning against him
Sergei Melikov, head of the Dagestan Republic within the Russian Federation, is hardly a dissident. As Colonel General Melikov, he…
Who's to blame for our censorious students?
Without freedom of speech, you do not have a university. More than any other value, it is freedom of speech…
Liz Truss’s mea culpa moment
The fallout from last Friday’s mini-Budget has been bigger and more volatile than almost anyone expected, with sterling hitting an…
Could Boris Johnson ever make a comeback as PM?
The big hope for Boris Johnson, according to Dominic Cummings, was that Liz Truss’s likely implosion as Prime Minister might…
This is Iran’s George Floyd moment but where is the West?
George Floyd was a 46-year-old petty criminal from Minneapolis who died on 25 May 2020 after a police officer knelt…
Europe’s descent into deindustrialisation
The rapid economic collapse that Britain is facing is simply an accelerated version of what the whole of Europe is…
Labour surge to 33-point lead over Tories
Today Kwasi Kwarteng attempted to calm concerns in his party over the fallout from the not-so-mini Budget – telling MPs: ‘We…
The Liz Truss survival guide
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you then, as Rudyard…
Kirill’s crusade against Ukraine is more jihadi than Christian
Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, has again preached to the faithful of the Russian world. He…
Ten handy phrases for bluffing your way through the new financial crisis
Aggggghhh! Woooaaaah! Urrrggghhhh! Those screams you hear are ten thousand self-appointed financial experts howling into the existential abyss. The Bank…
