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What’s your worst Christmas song?
Just to sour the festive mood a little, I thought I’d ask what are your least favourite Christmas songs and…
Diane Abbott to Donald Trump: Christmas messages from the great and the good
Diane Abbott I spent the entire day searching for those familiar traditional Christmas delicacies which all kids adore – but…
The best Christmas gift you can give yourself is to learn some poetry by heart
Every Christmas I find I am living in the past. I blame my father. He was born in 1910 —…
How Christians feel at Christmas
Imagine being in love with someone who ignores you eleven months of the year, then suddenly seems really into you.…
Scott Morrison is right – Australia’s bushfires aren’t down to climate change
I have long since learned, not least from my interview with Al Gore published here in 2017 that the surest way…
France, not Britain, is the real angry and divided nation
Remember when Boris Johnson met Emmanuel Macron for the first time as Prime Minister? It was in August and, as…
The ‘impeachment’ of Donald Trump
Did we just witness an historic event, the impeachment of only the third president in the entire history of the…
Lessons from the Johnson impeachment
The first time Congress impeached a president was in 1868. The president was Andrew Johnson, a man almost as surprising…
This election made me fall in love with democracy again
It’s an unfashionable thought, but having spent many hours in the university sports hall where constituency votes for Boris Johnson…
Corbyn’s cult have learnt nothing from the left’s last election wipeout
I initially misread the reaction of Labour’s leading Corbynites and social media outriders to the party’s most cataclysmic defeat since…
Social media needn’t be a cesspit
The early promise of the internet – to bring us closer together, better inform us, and spread liberty around the…
Joe Kennedy and the perils of media hubris
‘Dear Ellie and James,’ said Rep. Joe Kennedy in his remarks to the House of Representatives as he voted to…
The impeachment process we deserve
Like a bona fide member of Congress, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has opted to seize defeat from the jaws of victory.…
How the Tories plan to hold together their new electoral coalition once ‘Brexit is done’ and Corbyn gone
The thumping majority by which both the second reading and the programme motion for the Withdrawal Agreement Bill passed yesterday,…
What a relief Jeremy Corbyn never became PM
It is worth fixing for posterity the feelings which, on polling day, swirled in the breasts of many who wanted…
The Tory war over Europe is finally over
Happy Christmas (War Is Over). John Lennon probably didn’t have the decades long Conservative dispute over Europe in mind when…
Petronella Wyatt: The time I saw Boris cry
Boris Johnson is nothing like Churchill, a view with which my friend Andrew Roberts concurs. But in the 20-odd years…
Meow! Claws out for Mayor Pete at LA Democratic debate
It may be only the third time in American history the president has been impeached but it’s the first time…
Why is Trump so nervous about impeachment?
President Trump paraded his latest acquisition, Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a defector from the Democratic to the Republican party, at…
Pelosi’s impeachment delay is an unforced error
One of our perennial school pranks was to place a whoopee cushion secretly on the chair of an unsuspecting teacher.…
Why Boris Johnson is talking about ‘ten years’ time’
One of the most striking things about the government’s Queen’s Speech was Boris Johnson’s focus on where the country could…
In just a few words, JK Rowling has changed the transgender debate
One of the (many) frustrations of writing a lot about sex and gender is knowing that there are a lot…
The real impeachment scandal
I am so glad that Nancy Pelosi has finally come to her senses and declared — on the floor of…
A new leader won’t stop the far left’s domination of Labour
The far left controls the Labour bureaucracy, its National Executive Committee, its policy making, manifesto writing, many of its constituency…
Now even rape is ‘gender neutral’
First, a warning. This is one of those articles where I use the word ‘penis’ a lot. Yes, another one.…
