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What’s wrong with ‘over-testing’ for prostate cancer?
According to a recent study at Oxford, celebrity prostate cancer awareness campaigns have contributed to the over-testing of white, wealthy…
Revealed: the Lib Dems’ plan for Tory defectors
Reform UK’s momentum is influencing other parties too. The Greens voted overwhelmingly to elect Zack Polanski last month, partly on…
Papà, you are wrong: Meloni is complicit in genocide
On Saturday, our Italy correspondent Nicholas Farrell asked readers for their help in persuading his Italian wife and six children…
Yousaf: it is ‘difficult’ to accept Trump as peacemaker
After two years of war, both Hamas and the Israeli government have agreed to a ceasefire deal brokered by US…
Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Prize for his Hamas-Israel deal
In confirming the Israel-Hamas peace deal on Truth Social last night, Donald Trump referenced the seventh Beatitude from the Gospel…
Has Trump won peace – or a pause?
Donald Trump is on a roll. He not only wrangled Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu into submission, but also the terrorist…
Can Trump’s Gaza peace deal last?
There is no office more burdened by impossible choices than that of the Israeli prime minister. When Benjamin Netanyahu steps…
The inevitable downfall of Salt Bae
Nusret Gökçe, the Turkish social media sensation known as Salt Bae, has a restaurant empire built around the fan base…
Why you shouldn’t travel with your pets
Transport for London is refusing to take down a social media video which encourages owners to take their cats on…
What the China spy case farce says about Britain
Only in Britain could a spy trial collapse because no one in government could decide who the enemy was. The…
JK Rowling, Mia Khalifa and the delusion of the pro-Palestine mob
When an Islamist attack on a synagogue in my home city of Manchester left two dead, I responded by writing…
Scotland doesn’t need independence. It needs rid of the SNP
The SNP government in Edinburgh has published another white paper on the constitution, ‘A Fresh Start with Independence’. It’s a…
The Democrat who fantasized about killing a Republican
When it was revealed that Jay Jones, Virginia’s Democratic nominee for attorney general, joked in text messages about shooting a…
Has Katie Porter just tanked her chances of becoming California governor?
How do you give an interview so bad that it tanks your chances of winning an election by nearly 40…
Will Dwayne Johnson always be The Rock?
Over the past couple of weeks, two expensive, auteur-driven films with big stars have been released at the American box…
Why gold is at an all-time high
Gold is in the middle of what looks like an unstoppable bull run. It has already punched through $4,000 an ounce.…
The haunting of Tory conference
Spooky season came early to Manchester this year. Outside the convention centre, a baffled, shattered city reels from the latest…
Kemi’s speech was good. But is anyone listening?
Prior to Kemi Badenoch’s arrival the Conservative party played us recordings of her voice piped over dramatic lift muzak. Conference…
Badenoch’s conference speech will calm Tory jitters
Kemi Badenoch wrapped up Conservative conference with a well-received speech that was bursting with policy ideas. The Tory leader’s hour-long…
The problem with Lenny Henry’s demand for reparations
The desire to seek restitution from those who have harmed or wronged us is normal. Our instinct for justice is…
Taylor Swift is increasingly horny and increasingly mean
Time was, posting anything negative about Taylor Swift would be personally dangerous, given the famous passion, obsessiveness and sheer numbers…
The Freedom Convoy trial has disgraced Canada’s justice system
In a disgraceful conclusion to a disgraceful trial, Freedom Convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber have been sentenced to…
Should Stephen Lawrence’s killer be freed?
David Norris was convicted of the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence in April 1993 and now wants to be released…
Britain’s steel industry must die
It already faced tariffs in the United States, and it has been struggling to cope with some of the highest…
Prince Harry’s white saviour complex has been dealt another blow
You’ve got to feel sorry for Prince Harry. After some of the best headlines he’s had in years during his…
