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Canada’s peaceful anti-mandate protesters keep on truckin’

3 February 2022 4:02 am

Canada’s Liberal government is getting frustrated. They’ve tried everything and still the Freedom Convoy is camped out in front of…

What's the purpose of the levelling up white paper?

3 February 2022 4:00 am

After months of delays, the government’s levelling up white paper is finally out. Boris Johnson has viewed this document as…

Starmer knows that Boris is safe – for now

3 February 2022 2:19 am

Calm returned to the bridge. Big Dog looked comfortable in the chamber as Sir Keir Starmer quizzed him at PMQs.…

PMQs: Boris doubles down on Jimmy Savile claims

3 February 2022 12:35 am

Today’s PMQs suggests that some of the immediate heat has gone the partygate crisis, if only temporarily. Sir Keir Starmer…

Can Spain save its dying villages?

2 February 2022 11:55 pm

In a little village on the Spanish Meseta, I once asked an old lady about the next village some three…

The flaw in Boris's levelling up agenda

2 February 2022 11:45 pm

Regional agencies pumping money into research and development. Targets for education and healthcare. Another layer of meddling local government, and…

Boris Johnson’s position is still uncertain

2 February 2022 11:08 pm

Since the publication of Sue Gray’s update on partygate a trickle of letters of no confidence have been sent to…

Levelling up: don't copy the Germans

2 February 2022 11:05 pm

‘Germany has succeeded in levelling up where we have not,’ Boris Johnson claimed back in July last year, when talk…

Boris Johnson's fightback has been cut short

2 February 2022 9:02 pm

Tobias Ellwood, the chair of the defence select committee, has this morning announced that he is sending a letter to…

Boris is dragging the Tories down with him

2 February 2022 6:00 pm

Tories occasionally like to pretend that they are not wasting their talents and lives defending a bottom-feeding demagogue. They lecture…

Exclusive: House Democrat says no snacks for the unvaxxed

2 February 2022 4:52 am

Congresswoman Terri Sewell hasn’t been deterred by court injunctions against President Biden’s vaccine mandates; instead, the Democratic representative for Alabama’s…

Five ways Boris might save his premiership

2 February 2022 3:36 am

Boris Johnson doesn’t even like parties, by all accounts. He prefers to be left alone with women. Yet parties are…

Sending a mean tweet about Captain Tom shouldn't be a crime

2 February 2022 2:24 am

Captain Tom Moore captured the nation’s hearts during the pandemic. The World War II officer completed 100 lengths of his…

Why should we listen to celebrities over Joe Rogan?

2 February 2022 2:05 am

I’m boycotting Spotify. I am doing this for the same reason as I don’t have a Netflix subscription: I refuse…

Boris must go!

2 February 2022 12:50 am

Conservative sympathisers, Conservative voters and Conservative parliamentarians have a simple choice to make this week. Do they stand by a…

Whoopi Goldberg and the problem with progressive America

2 February 2022 12:43 am

The Holocaust wasn’t about race because Jews are white. This is the through-the-looking-glass position in which progressive America now finds…

Pakistan's Christians are living in terror

2 February 2022 12:40 am

A Christian priest was shot dead by gunmen in Pakistan’s Peshawar town on Sunday. Pastor William Siraj was gunned down…

Did Keir Starmer fail to prosecute Jimmy Savile?

2 February 2022 12:20 am

One of the stranger moments of yesterday’s drama in the House of Commons, following the release of the Sue Gray…

Is Boris really serious about Brexit?

1 February 2022 11:55 pm

As the partygate furore rages on, Boris Johnson is retreating towards familiar territory: Brexit. A policy blitz is underway this…

The failed attempt to 'deradicalise' Germany's AfD

1 February 2022 11:31 pm

Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has lost its third chair in nine years. Jörg Meuthen is the latest to…

Covid has shattered France’s commitment to liberty

1 February 2022 7:52 pm

It is a peculiarity of how France has responded to the Covid pandemic that the unvaccinated, or those who have…

Canada should be proud of the truckers’ convoy

1 February 2022 6:52 pm

The first wave of truckers in the Freedom Convoy arrived in Ottawa on Friday, having travelled across Canada to protest…

Johnson faces a mauling from his own MPs

1 February 2022 4:20 am

Ahead of the publication of Sue Gray’s report into partygate, there had been talk that the police investigation — which…

Johnson's defence deteriorates

1 February 2022 3:50 am

That Boris Johnson regards the Gray update as an opportunity to come up for air was very clear from his…

Are Kamala Harris's days as Veep numbered?

1 February 2022 3:48 am

President Joe Biden promised last week to nominate the first black woman to the Supreme Court. ‘Long overdue,’ he says.…