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Stonewall’s disgraceful attacks on the EHRC
Whatever happened to the brilliant gay rights movement led by people like Ian McKellen, Simon Fanshawe, Matthew Parris and Angela…
The dog catcher, the terrorist and the dark history of Sinn Fein
The dead in the ground and those who put them there in the name of ideology do not rest easily…
Meet Sergey Naryshkin, Putin’s spymaster in Ukraine
On a cool October day in Moscow in 2017, Sergey Naryshkin, the head of the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service,…
The academic taking on the trans activist bullies at Bristol university
Raquel Rosario-Sanchez’s case may prove to be a landmark one in the current war on women. She is a PhD…
Licoricia and the forgotten expulsion of England’s Jews
About three minutes’ walk from my house in Winchester is Jewry Street. It runs from the Theatre Royal at one…
Why the Trump toilet story stinks
While President Trump was in office, White House staff periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet and came…
Is the future of the American right at Mission Navy Yard?
What is the future for American conservatism? That was the question posed at a Manhattan Institute event on Thursday night,…
Can Labour members ever learn to love Keir Starmer?
Keir Starmer is the master of all he surveys. Thanks to partygate, Labour now enjoys a consistent poll lead over…
Ukraine's plight paints a bleak vision of Europe's future
It is tempting to view Vladimir Putin as a Cold War relic: a former KGB officer who hasn’t got over the…
How long can Japan keep foreigners locked out?
A colleague has posted on the ‘Return to Japan’ Facebook page that his hotel quarantine at Tokyo’s Narita airport is…
Is this the reason America has had such a disastrous pandemic?
If Francis Fukuyama was wrong about the end of history, he was right about one thing. Back in the scary…
Boris buys himself a reprieve
After a difficult few weeks, Boris Johnson has made it to parliamentary recess. Given few expect a no confidence vote to…
What Mitch McConnell knows about January 6
For a party that claims it wants to move on, the Republicans are doing a remarkable job of turning the…
Does the Bodleian really need a race adviser?
It’s a difficult time for libraries. Budget cutbacks, online competitors and rival forms of media all point to a grim…
How democratic are the French elections?
There are just 59 days to go until voters turn out for the first round of the French presidential election…
How high could interest rates go?
The last time that US inflation hit 7.5 per cent, Ronald Reagan was a recently-elected president. And he, older readers…
Is scrapping self-isolation safe?
Is now the right time to lift all Covid restrictions, as the Prime Minister suggested he might do from 24…
Women-only carriages are a bonkers idea
Here we go again. Another suggestion, this time by the SNP transport minister, Jenny Gilruth, to introduce women-only carriages on…
Boris vs the Blob: the real reason John Major can't stand the PM
The embattled denizens of Downing Street must be quaking in their loafers as another incoming missile streaks in. This one…
In praise of Deborah Lipstadt
The United States Senate is not a body commonly associated with alacrity but its sluggishness in considering the nomination of…
Teach kids to code? They're better off learning languages
A leading artificial intelligence professor has said that children should learn to write software. According to professor Michael Bronstein of…
‘Harder than heroin’: America’s silent benzo epidemic
“Imagine taking a pill that makes you instantly feel relaxed, and then imagine that when you stop taking it, you…
A working-class liberty movement
We begin today in the Canadian Parliament, which has its own version of prime minister’s questions. And while it isn’t…
PMQs: Boris looks chipper for a man on the brink
And still they try. MPs are desperate to get the Prime Minister to quit, live on TV, during PMQs. As…
Carry on Carrie: why I've changed my mind about our 'first lady'
Who exactly is the Prime Minister’s wife? To some, she’s Carrie Antoinette, the extravagant demander of gold wallpaper who spent…
