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DeSantis has started his presidential campaign tour
Pittsburgh Fresh off the campaign stage in Arizona, where he stumped for gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, Florida governor Ron DeSantis…
No, 44 percent of pregnant women didn’t miscarry after the Pfizer shot
Feminist author “Dr.” Naomi Wolf is making the rounds with a bombastic new claim that nearly half of pregnant women…
Donald Trump has enemies everywhere
I think that Michael Anton is correct that “the people who really run the United States of America have made it clear…
The gender debate is getting nastier
Elaine Miller is one of the grown-ups. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, with a specialism…
Can Zelensky afford to freeze Ukraine’s gas prices?
This morning, Volodymyr Zelensky signed a moratorium on energy prices – so while gas bills are rising all over Europe,…
What’s to blame for the surge in excess deaths?
From the beginning, the debate over lockdowns was skewed by the fact that Covid deaths were imminent – and any…
Salman Rushdie was never safe
The stabbing of Salman Rushdie sends a renewed message to the world: take Islamism – the transformation of the Islamic…
The growing extremism of France’s eco warriors
In August 1999 a group of protestors demolished a McDonald’s restaurant under construction in Aveyron, southern France. Their leader was…
The unedifying Afghan blame game
A year ago we scuttled out of Afghanistan. We abandoned the aim we and the Americans had proclaimed so noisily…
I regret my promiscuity
Upon opening Louise Perry’s new book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century,…
Is the housing bubble about to burst?
There are so many house indices that they can create confusion. Last week, the Halifax house price index showed a…
Amol Rajan's University Challenge disaster
Congratulations to Amol Rajan, who adds the mantle of University Challenge host to his burgeoning portfolio of BBC jobs. Rajan…
The EU’s bullying behaviour over the Horizon programme
You wouldn’t normally electrify the world with a press release detailing a formal UK legal demand for discussions and possible…
In defence of Sanna Marin, Finland's partying PM
Party politics is done somewhat differently in Finland. While Boris was hounded out in Westminster for some miserable looking cake…
Jeremy Clarkson should be the next host of University Challenge
The bad news of the week is that Jeremy Paxman is retiring from University Challenge. The worse is that most…
The Chinese spy ship and the dangers of debt-trap diplomacy
A Chinese spy ship that docked in Sri Lanka on Tuesday in defiance of Indian and western protests is the…
Spare a thought for the A level class of 2022
If you have an 18-year-old in your life, as I do, or even if you vaguely know of one, please…
Can Israelis trust the UN?
You probably think you’ve heard every story there is to hear about people getting fired over their tweets. Well, here’s…
Are genital checks inevitable?
Eighty-year-old Julie Jaman has been banned from her local YMCA swimming pool in Port Townsend, Washington, where she’s been a…
Northern Ireland is descending back into sectarianism
Nearly 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement, the embers of sectarianism in Northern Ireland are still glowing bright. This…
Team Truss turns on each other at eco-hustings
The Tory leadership teams rolled into Belfast this afternoon, clad in metaphorical red, white and blue and eager to display…
Tony Blair's Covid grift
Have we yet seen the end of Covid restrictions? It is tempting to think so. For many people, Covid and…
Has Scott Morrison become Australia’s Richard Nixon?
In May 1940, Winston Churchill was not only appointed Prime Minister but Minister for Defence. In doing so, Churchill ensured…
Finally, some justice for the infected blood scandal's victims
Why has the greatest patient scandal in the history of the NHS rumbled on for so long before its victims…
Is Liz Cheney a ‘martyr’ to Republican values?
In perhaps the least surprising electoral result we’ll see in America this year, the Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney lost to…
