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Britain doesn’t need a public holiday to remember the slave trade
A fair number of episodes in the history of this country are frankly best forgotten. The last thing to do…
A divided Tory party is destined to lose the next election
I think that I may be able to claim credit for being the first writer to question the once universal…
The stalemate in Ukraine won't last forever
Addressing the vexed question of who is winning the war in Ukraine, six months on, is a task to challenge…
The Conservative party is a void
Like the winter of discontent, the summer of 2022 is a season that will burn itself into the national consciousness.…
The golden noose around Apple’s neck
“Innovation comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try…
We shouldn't accept the Channel crossings
Yesterday, 1,295 people arrived in the UK by crossing the Channel in small boats. That is the highest daily total…
Meghan’s Archetypes podcast is really all about her
It’s fair to speculate that the head honchos at Spotify might be wondering if their company got enough bang for…
Aleksandr Dugin’s daughter paid the cost for his beliefs
In the spring of 1994, year three of the Bosnian war, Ana, the daughter of the Bosnian Serb Lieutenant Colonel…
What's to blame for the crash of the euro?
Since June 2016 we have settled into a pattern. Whenever the pound plunges, it is followed by cries of ‘I…
We’re at pandemic levels of death. Why is no one talking about it?
At the peak of the lockdowns, thousands were dying every week. Newspaper front pages demanded action. But in the latest…
Britain is not prepared for winter blackouts
Britain has a bold new plan for dealing with a winter energy crisis: ‘hope for good weather’. It’s hard to…
Is Imran Khan Pakistan’s Donald Trump?
Imran Khan, the cricketing hero, legendary lothario and deposed prime minister of Pakistan, is in trouble again. His political opponents…
Farewell, St Anthony Fauci
So farewell, Anthony Fauci, the unfortunate face of America’s pandemic response. Well, not so unfortunate – the doctor is stepping…
You can't sit out the culture wars
As if Judy Murray wasn’t already a national treasure. When the tennis coach, mother of Jamie and Sir Andy, heard…
Young people should see climate change as a challenge
I’ve been fed two competing storylines for as long as I can remember. On one side, the world I’ve inherited…
Mitch McConnell isn’t going anywhere
Just a few months ago, Blake Masters was strongly criticizing Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, expressing hopes, as other conservative candidates…
Could inflation hit 18.6 per cent?
When last month’s headline inflation figure was released, showing a rise to 10.1 per cent on the year, a little…
The puppet-master’s victory lap
President Biden’s team of progressive bow-tied brainiacs are getting out their Champagne flutes. Can you blame them? Sure, the rest…
Sanna Marin and the rise of fake controversy
With an honourable exception for the Beastie Boys, I can’t stand the use of ‘party’ as a verb. It immediately…
Truss and Sunak reach crunch week on the energy crisis
There’s still two weeks of the Tory leadership contest to go but by Friday the scale of the energy crisis…
The real motivation for the FBI raid
I write a day after the FBI, without warning, raided Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s home in Palm Beach. According to Trump, agents…
What the Dugin assassination tells us about Russia
Car bombs used to be a fixture of gangland feuds in 1990s Russia but have since fallen out of fashion. This…
The trouble with Tavistock
“In July, Britain’s National Health Service announced a major revamp of its gender identity services for young people. The famed Tavistock…
The depressing rise of the cathedral gimmick
They say that shopping centres are the cathedrals of late capitalism. It is amusing sometimes to think of future generations…
Europe’s new migrant crisis
Earlier this month I spent a week in Sicily, driving south from Palermo to Agrigento and then east to Syracuse…
