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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…
The Nord Stream blasts are Putin's warning shot to the West
While the Ukrainians are fighting a conventional war on their own territory, Russia and the West are engaged in an…
Why is the Bank of England buying gilts?
In a dramatic about-turn, the Bank of England is now intervening in the gilts market to try and calm the…
France's centrists look petty after their charity football boycott
There should be a charity football match this evening in Paris between a team of MPs and an XI made…
Do Russia's conscripts deserve our sympathy?
Russia’s new crop of conscripts are a desperate, dejected bunch. A photograph showing an Orthodox priest blessing these men as they…
Will cyberwar be next?
Neither the Danes nor Nato have made a direct attribution for yesterday’s pipeline damage. But the fingers are pointing at…
Is it time to kill the Conservative party?
Dominic Cummings’s response to the plight of the Conservative party is typically bellicose. He calls for it to be driven…
The City still runs on nepotism
When Liz Truss says she wants to give tax cuts to the wealthiest, she thinks she is making a moral…
