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Is there a British version of America’s attachment to guns?
Now that the horror of the Uvalde school shooting in Texas has begun to ebb away, as it always does,…
Georgia’s unrequited love affair with Brussels is turning sour
The streets of Tbilisi were closed off just a few weeks ago for Independence Day, celebrating the day Georgia formally…
The uncomfortable truth about Oxford University
Oxford is a city that makes you proud to be British: its beautiful dreaming spires attract tourists and the cleverest…
Could Giorgia Meloni become Italy’s next prime minister?
At the last Italian general election in 2018 the right-wing populist party, Fratelli d’Italia, got just 4 per cent of…
What’s behind the mysterious wave of bomb threats terrorising Serbia?
Is Serbia being terrorised into supporting Ukraine? The question may sound like it comes from the fevered imagination of a…
We need to talk about Scotland
The Scottish government has published the first instalment of its new independence prospectus, a paper with the remarkably verbose title:…
How Russia’s cartoon heroine turned on Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin’s regime has a track record in building up public heroes whom it hopes to use, only to find…
Is the war slipping away from Ukraine?
After the decisive failure of Russia’s attempt to overthrow the government of Ukraine by seizing Kyiv, Kharkiv and other key cities…
Joe Biden’s tampon shortage
Move over baby formula: there’s a new shortage in town. Tampons are becoming increasingly hard to find in Joe Biden’s…
Tory MPs split on Johnson’s absence
Boris Johnson has left the country – but that hasn’t stopped him from annoying his backbenchers. The Prime Minister is…
Why is Macron so desperate to bring Russia in from the cold?
Emmanuel Macron should get a new historical advisor. He continues to repeat – this time at his Kyiv press conference on…
The Cato Institute fails to stand up to cancel culture
The recent controversy over prominent legal commentator Ilya Shapiro’s employment at Georgetown University Law Center ended last week. In a…
Boris pulls out of levelling up conference
To Doncaster, home of the horses and the Northern Research Group conference. But there was only one race on the…
The truth about Britain's 'record-breaking' heatwave
Will temperature records be broken today? You bet they will. By the end of the day you can be sure…
What Ukrainians think of the Macron, Scholz and Draghi visit
The photo said it all. Zelensky’s face when embraced by Macron summed up how Ukrainians saw yesterday’s visit from the…
'What is a woman?': the trans film that makes for harrowing viewing
What is a woman? A question like this might seem like a strange premise for a 90-minute documentary. But we live in…
France could plunge the eurozone into its next crisis
In the French presidential elections, and now in the legislatives that will close on Sunday evening, the one issue kept…
Another Boris diplomatic blunder
Boris Johnson has never been one of nature’s diplomats. Unconventional, irreverent, Brexit-backing and norm-defying, the blonde bombshell’s two-year tenure at…
Obese TikTok star angry she can’t cripple a horse
A so-called TikTok “star” went viral this week after complaining to her more than 2 million followers that a ranch…
Dinesh D’Souza’s stupid movie
This article was originally published on Ann Coulter’s Substack, which you can sign up to receive here. As much as…
We are governed by Twitter
Sawyer Hackett is not a member of the Biden administration. He holds no official position in the Department of Homeland…
Asking for a pay rise won't crash Britain's economy
The Bank of England has just raised interest rates for the fifth time in the row, warning that inflation is…
How high might interest rates go?
To nobody’s surprise, the Bank of England has hiked its base rate, and, equally unsurprisingly, it has chosen to do…
The end of the Russian dream
I was born in the USSR in 1978 and was just becoming a teenager as the Soviet Union fell. For…
The question Boris's Rwanda plan critics must answer
There are many reasons to oppose Boris Johnson’s government’s policy of removing migrants to Rwanda. There’s certainly a moral case against…
