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Easter traditions from around the world
You know where you are with Christmas. Trees, carols, nativity plays, holly and ivy, presents, mince pies, crackers, Dickens, It’s…
The real danger Marine Le Pen poses to the EU
As the French Presidentielle hots up for the final vote on Sunday week, both Macron and Le Pen are fighting…
Down with the ‘Third World War’ doomsayers
Some people are always telling you that the world is soon to end. In the old days many of them…
What's wrong with the Rwanda plan?
There are many unanswered questions about the government’s new policy of compelled expulsion to Rwanda of uninvited asylum claimants. Here…
The problem with Boris's Rwanda solution
Is the Prime Minister’s plan to divert some asylum seekers to Rwanda racist? Is it inhumane? Is it a dead…
Partygate cuts through with voters
The Tory task at the next election is enormous. No party in the democratic age has ever won a fifth…
The Rwanda plan could save Boris
If you want to see what explosive growth looks like then I invite you to eschew all the old Covid…
Our prisons are woefully unprepared for Ali Harbi Ali
The Islamist terrorist Ali Harbi Ali will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the murder of Sir…
The new plan to stop Channel migrants
How best to move attention away from the Prime Minister receiving a fine over partygate? An eye-catching government announcement to…
Is this the birth of a Nordic Nato?
In the past six weeks, Finland and Sweden’s security policies have changed more than they have over the past six…
Who governs Britain? Not ministers, it seems
Who governs Britain? It’s a dangerous question, as Ted Heath learned half a century ago. But while he was concerned…
Nottingham university’s shameful treatment of Tony Sewell
If you want a glimpse of how toxic the UK’s race debate has become, take a look at the treatment…
Why I resigned over partygate
This is an edited version of Lord Wolfson’s resignation letter, following the Met’s decision to fine Boris Johnson and Rishi…
The shameful silence surrounding David Amess’s murder
Ali Harbi Ali has been given a whole life sentence. But perhaps this is too steep an introduction. Perhaps, like…
Inflation is the real lockdown scandal
No. 10 was an endless series of parties. The Chancellor was more interested in socializing than sorting out the economy. And…
Tory MPs have a point about not removing Boris now
According to the Metropolitan police, Boris Johnson broke his own lockdown rules during the Covid crisis and, according to almost…
Putin is devouring his children
Like the Greek titan Cronos devouring his own children, Vladimir Putin seems determined to turn against those he was once…
Zelensky has snubbed Germany’s President
When Volodymyr Zelensky told the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier yesterday that he did not want to see him in Kyiv,…
Boris’s real failure wasn’t breaking lockdown
Boris Johnson made a big error, alright. But it wasn’t walking into a room where his wife had prepared him…
The French elite are playing into Le Pen’s hands
The cry of ‘aux barricades’ is reverberating around France as the country’s political elite rush to form a Republican Front.…
Russia's failure to communicate
‘So you’ve got one, right, Chris?’ Lev Lvovich leaned in closer, and his beery breath was warm and damp on…
The battle for zero-Covid is being fought in Shanghai
Confusion infected Shanghai on Tuesday, as the authorities dithered over a promised easing of severe lockdown rules and Covid-19 continued…
Even if he wins Macron could be facing disaster
Unaccustomed as political scientists are to florid language, they have nevertheless come up with the ‘theory of the dyke’, to…
Biden cracks down even on green energy
We know that government’s knack for finding something wrong with everything rivals even the most stereotypical mother-in-law. But the relentless…
Boris's crazy defence
‘I was very busy. The party was crap. I’m sorry you’re angry. Now leave me alone.’ That was the gist…
