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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…
Truss and Kwarteng borrow their way to tax cuts
Levelling Up secretary Simon Clarke described today’s fiscal event as a ‘game changer’ for Britain’s economy. Was he right? The…
Labour’s debt binge dilemma
Labour has a populist argument against Liz Truss’s spendaholic plans to borrow money from the international money markets and direct…
The audacity of Kwarteng's tax cut for the rich
George Osborne dreamed about it and Rishi Sunak told friends that he’d like to do it if everything went well…
Not all Tory MPs are happy about Kwasi Kwarteng's mini Budget
Rachel Reeves’ response to the not-a-budget was one of the best Budget responses a shadow chancellor has produced in Labour’s…
Truss and Kwarteng's mini-Budget is a big gamble
Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss are a Chancellor and a Prime Minister in a hurry, they know they have only…
The real story of the Putin emigres
‘Russians are fleeing their country in droves’. That’s how Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, partners in life and journalism, sum…
Europe should welcome fleeing Russians
In the wake of Vladimir Putin’s surprise announcement of partial mobilisation on Wednesday, thousands of young Russian men decided that…
