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Ben Smith gifts Harper’s best subs week ever
Say what you want about the sickness of cancel culture, it can be great for business. Nothing rallies paying readers…
Why is New Zealand afraid of criticising China?
It is becoming harder and harder to ignore China’s aggressive behaviour. As I say in the magazine this week, China…
Pfizer trial finds vaccine ‘100% effective’ against South African variant
Pfizer and BioNTech have released some extraordinary findings from a Phase 3 trial involving 46,307 participants, between seven days and…
The problem with our hate crime laws
We have a long experience of dealing with hate crime in Britain. In 1958 nine Teddy boys armed themselves with…
Macron's latest lockdown fiasco
On New Year’s Eve, Emmanuel Macron promised France an economic revival by the Spring. Cancel that. Instead, as the intensive…
Stacey Abrams tells London: yes we Khan
Sadiq Khan is all set to win by a landslide in London, so why not allow a failed election candidate…
Joe Biden and the ‘fourth wave’ mania
Hysteria, thy name is Biden. Or maybe it’s Walensky, named for Dr Rochelle Walensky, aspiring soap opera star and newly…
The curious case of Matt Gaetz
From the moment Matt Gaetz blitzed into Washington in 2016 as a 34-year-old Trump ally, it was clear that the…
Joe Biden unmasked
The dim reaper is at it again. We need, President Biden tells us, to wear masks forever, to avoid ‘more…
Can we see the vaccine effect?
Britain’s Covid data is moving in the right direction. Today’s update from the Office for National Statistics confirms this on…
How the Sputnik vaccine brought down Slovakia’s Prime Minister
March was a dark month for Slovakia. Covid cases and deaths in the country were among the highest in Europe,…
Will Lindsay get his chariot back?
As Speaker, John Bercow could never be accused of underselling his position. During his tenure the diminutive parliamentarian attracted criticism…
Bangladesh could pay for failing to crack down on its Islamist threat
Bangladesh turned 50 last week and the country has much to celebrate. Having inherited a dismal GDP growth rate of…
Beijing's cruel attempt to stop fleeing Hongkongers
The Chinese Communist party regime likes to portray itself as the new superpower, displaying its strength on the world stage.…
Is Macron the new Trump?
For the last three months journalists across the world have been missing the curious mix of bombast, arrogance, untruths and showmanship…
Gove hints at vaccine passport app
It wasn’t so long ago that ministers were lining up on broadcast to insists vaccine passports were out of the…
The dark heart of the cladding scandal has been exposed
The Grenfell Tower Inquiry has exposed the dark heart of the building safety crisis in recent weeks, as it examined…
Has the school co-educational 'experiment' failed?
Reading these reports of what has been happening in some co-educational public schools, it’s clear that the trend began way back…
Boris Johnson's vaccine problem
On the day that people are finally allowed to gather in groups of six outside, tennis games get underway and wild…
When does the media cover a horrific crime?
What makes a tragic death a major news story? The races of the perpetrators and the victims, of course. As…
In praise of David Lammy, a true Englishman
David Lammy, the shadow justice secretary, has been doing his LBC radio phone-in show. If you believe LBC, he has…
The Batley Grammar school row is the perfect jihadist recruitment tool
As controversy continues to rage after pupils were shown an image of the prophet Muhammad by a teacher at Batley Grammar School,…
The Sun sets on toxic masculinity
The Sun newspaper has been on an interesting journey in recent years, ditching its page three girls, drawing up a…
The next stage of the EU’s coronavirus meltdown
Debts would be shared. The strong would offer a helping hand to the weak. Money would be raised at incredibly…
European nations are reasserting themselves
All but the most hardened Remainer will admit that the EU’s vaccine rollout has been poor. Up against the UK’s…
