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Putin’s wish for 2023
Following an unusually quiet December for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin has emerged to deliver his traditional New Year’s Eve…
Venezuela’s anti-socialist opposition has faltered
2019 was a banner year for Juan Guaido, a relatively obscure Venezuelan lawmaker who announced to a crowd of thousands…
Might Michel Houellebecq become the next Salman Rushdie?
In August this year Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times. The novelist survived the attack, to the outward relief of…
My debt to Pope Benedict XVI
Back in early 2019, my wife discovered that she was pregnant with our fourth child. A few weeks later, we…
What unites Greta Thunberg and Andrew Tate
So, are you Team Tate or Team Thunberg? Do you side with the muscled misogynist who has convinced tragic TikTok…
Fusion energy and the coming fight for the Moon
It’s been hard to miss the excitement since the US Energy Department announced that its Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory had…
Why I’m giving up on diehard Remainers
What’s your New Year’s resolution? Eat less, move more? Or perhaps you’re a contrary cuss aiming to eat more and…
Why it isn’t mad to oppose the World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum (WEF) and its long-serving founder and Executive Chairman, Professor Klaus Schwab, are the subjects of many insane conspiracy…
Why should we test all travellers from China?
What’s the point in asking people flying in from China to present a negative Covid test? Rishi Sunak has stepped…
Putin has failed to bring Europe to its knees
Unforeseen events which provoke global crises – such as Covid — have come to be known as ‘black swans’. By…
Twixmas and the truth about why people liked lockdown
We don’t have a standardised name for the little clutch of strange days between Christmas and New Year. There is…
Rest in peace, Pelé, the undisputed King of football
When Lionel Messi won the World Cup for Argentina earlier this month, it not only filled the last hole in…
Why won’t the Conservatives stand up for conservatism any more?
Is it supposed to be enough for those of us of a culturally and socially conservative persuasion to know that some Tory…
Why globalism is the enemy of freedom
I was recently asked to say a few words about “Globalism and Freedom” at a conference sponsored by Hillsdale College in…
How the Isle of Man can save the Tory party
If you ask a typical member of the Conservative party what they want Britain to look like, you’ll get the usual list:…
Was Winston Churchill a racist? A look at the evidence
‘Racist’ read the spray-painted epithet on Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square following a climate protest in 2020. This brutal…
Rachel Levine must explain ‘misinformation’ over ‘gender-affirming care’
Rachel Levine, the United States assistant secretary for health, has become a lightning rod for attention and controversy in the…
The 2024 election will be cataclysmic for the Conservatives
I spend a lot of my time fantasising about the death of the Conservative Party. I like to picture election…
Is global warming behind America’s snowstorms?
Is there any weather condition which cannot be blamed on anthropogenic global warming (AGW)? No, it seems, judging by the reaction…
How Pope Benedict persuaded me to become a Catholic
I grew up in a traditional English family, surrounded by cousins, chivvied by aunts, presided over by my grandmother, who…
What Meghan Markle’s digital army has in common with trans activists
If Meghan Markle’s army of digital defenders didn’t exist, we’d have to make them up. Otherwise, the never-ending controversy over…
How the Freemasons influenced Iran’s modern history
The political movement that led to Iran’s first constitution in 1906 – which established the country’s first parliament – was underpinned by an…
All is not well in Macron’s France
The relationship entertained by French elites to their homeland is very different from their English counterparts. ‘England is perhaps the…
Academic freedom is being stifled at Imperial College London
We have become used to the erosion of academic freedom in the humanities and social sciences. It is no longer…
How Britain’s economy might bounce back in 2023
Whatever happened to the economic boom that was supposed to follow the Covid pandemic? The 2020s, some argued, would be…
