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Liz Truss is a liberal. So how will she approach immigration?
Should Tories already be feeling buyer’s remorse over their new leader? It has been only 20 days since Boris Johnson,…
The anger behind Shinzo Abe's state funeral
Tokyo While not quite on the scale of Her Majesty’s service, Tuesday’s state funeral of Japan’s longest serving PM Shinzo…
Life among the Russian refuseniks
Yerevan, Armenia It was getting dark outside Yerevan Airport when I arrived, but there were still a dozen flights from Russia…
Will Meloni be able to govern Italy?
Mario Draghi’s national unity government lost badly in yesterday’s Italian election – worse even than the polls predicted. Fratelli d’Italia,…
The Bank of England has no good options
How will and how should the Bank of England, and the Treasury, react to this morning’s continued fall in the…
In praise of the speeding crackdown
We all needed a laugh, what with the pound tanking and inflation running away, my old pal Kwasi delivering a…
Will the Bank of England now move to steady the pound?
After a weekend where the markets digested the Kwasi Kwarteng plan for growth, the pound hit $1.03 in early trading…
The Republican ‘Commitment to America’ feels like a Hail Mary
Last week, with fewer than 50 days to go before the midterm elections, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy put it…
Will the GOP blow the midterms?
At the start of the year, largely thanks to the actions of the president, the Republican Party was sitting pretty.…
Starmer sets himself apart from Truss
One of the reasons members of Liz Truss’s team remain upbeat despite the onslaught of criticism towards government’s tax-cutting budget…
Why are suspected murderers being let out of jail?
What should judges do with potentially dangerous prisoners waiting for their trial when the barristers’ strike means their cases cannot…
Could Balochistan secede from Pakistan?
The rain and the cold in Quetta, the capital of the Pakistani province of Balochistan, did not deter them. Neither…
The apocalypse complex
Just in case there’s an apocalypse, the super-rich are buying bunkers. Big bunkers. Bunkers with swimming pools, indoor gardens, cinemas,…
In defence of repression
There is a modern superstition that for every terrible experience suffered there is an equal and opposite psychological technique that,…
The Tories are to blame for Scotland’s tax mess
Lost amid much of the commentary on Kwasi Kwarteng’s income tax and stamp duty cuts is that they will not…
Leicester’s multiculturalism masks a stark sectarian divide
Leicester, the city where I was born, appears to be a melting pot of different cultures. Until recent weeks, its…
Only Britain can save France from German domination
Are Britain and France at the dawn of a new Entente Cordiale? It’s reported that France will be the destination…
Kwasi Kwarteng’s growth gamble is a risk worth taking
New Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s first ‘fiscal event’ was always going to be quite provocative and exciting. But in the end…
The shameful exploitation of Chris Kaba’s death
Why exactly is it that the journalists and politicians who claim to be most proud of multicultural, multiethnic Britain seem…
This isn’t a return to boom and bust
Massive tax cuts. A huge budget deficit. And a wild dash for growth, stoking a short-lived boom, before it all…
The benefits scandal Kwasi Kwarteng should tackle next
I was at an end-of-summer party for the Centre for Social Justice last night, with some politicians and others interested…
How worrying is the falling pound?
How are markets responding to Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget? A sharp fall in the pound today has plenty of critics arguing…
Can Cambridge decolonise?
News that Cambridge University is to commission an art installation to adorn one of its ancient buildings rarely warrants holding…
The trouble with ‘bourgeois’ environmentalism
The left needs to shake off its ‘bourgeois environmentalism’. It needs to distance itself from the ‘bourgeois environmental lobby’ and…
Why Britain should welcome Russians fleeing Putin's war
As if Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had not already presented quite enough dilemmas for other countries, suddenly there is another…
