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Who is Gordon Brown to pose as the voice of fiscal sanity?
Gordon Brown is demanding Parliament be recalled for an emergency budget. By October, he says, quoting a study he commissioned…
Did the SAS inspire Ukraine's Crimea raid?
If the reports are right and it was Ukrainian special forces who destroyed as many as 20 Russian aircraft at…
Are we already in recession?
The Bank of England recently raised hackles by predicting that the economy would shrink in the final quarter of 2022,…
A Russian visa ban would delight Putin
Do you hate Russia, or do you hate Putin? That’s the central question behind a current debate about whether to…
How Britain's 'frenemies' are helping Putin's Russia
In the battle to become prime minister, both Liz Truss and RIshi Sunak have vowed to crack down on Britain’s enemies.…
Ukraine’s Crimean strike marks a new stage of the war
For most Russians, the brutal realities of Vladimir Putin’s ‘special military operation’ have not really struck home. Ukraine’s attack on…
Children are the big losers from the decline of marriage
Funny, isn’t it, the way people bandy the word ‘bastard’ nowadays, without any notion that it pertains to the condition…
Europe’s looming energy wars
This summer marks a truce. But if, as expected, Liz Truss becomes prime minister, it is almost inevitable that tensions…
Sturgeon fires back at Truss
Miaow. The claws are out in the Tory leadership race, after Liz Truss took a pop at Nicola Sturgeon. The…
Is cash back?
Whatever happened to the great surge towards a cashless society which the pandemic was supposed to bring about? As I…
Are students really too fragile for Shakespeare?
What’s the point of a university? Regrettably, that’s a genuine question. The censorship and trigger warnings that are rife on British campuses…
What a coral reef misconduct claim says about climate science
On Monday, I wrote here about how the Great Barrier Reef is defying predictions of its own demise, bouncing back…
Do Conservative members miss Boris?
Boris Johnson is very much the elephant in the room of this leadership race, looming large over both Rishi Sunak…
Liz Truss's camp hits back over Treasury windfall tax plans
Is the government about to toughen up its windfall tax? That’s the talk in Westminster today as Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi…
Is Liz Truss sowing the seeds of her own downfall?
Liz Truss looks to be winning a decisive victory for cold-eyed conservatism. A victory for I went to the school…
The Tories don't care about generation rent
For millennials like me, the prospect of owning a home is a pipe dream. Soaring rental costs and crippling bills…
Why Rishi Sunak shouldn't quit
We are in the depths of silly season. The perfect time, then, for the Conservative party to be choosing a…
Truss turns on the media
To Darlington, for another of the endless Tory leadership hustings. Last night’s clash covered much of the same old ground…
China's Taiwan tantrum is already backfiring
Chinese social media is full of anger and frustration – because the military didn’t shoot down Nancy Pelosi’s plane. As…
Could Russia stoke conflict between Serbia and Kosovo?
The prime minister of Kosovo has been talking about a possible war in the country, with Russia as the instigator. In…
Donald Trump has a point about the Clintons
The year was 2001. George W. Bush had just defeated Al Gore in the infamous hanging-gigachad presidential election from hell.…
The BBC is wrong about OnlyFans
As the cost-of-living crisis bites and a recession looms, women are once again being fed a dangerous message: that the sex…
The next prime minister needs to stand up to Nicola Sturgeon
The next Prime Minister, whoever they are, really needs to get a grip on the declinism and defeatism of the…
Asylum base row after Sunak steps in
A curious row has exploded in the projectile-packed leadership race. This morning’s Yorkshire Post splashed on the news that Rishi…
The crisis at the heart of the Conservative party
It is always interesting to read the Wikipedia pages of plane crashes. Thanks to the data recovered from black boxes,…
