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The obvious truth about anti-Semitism
There are many ways to do nothing. One is to sit on your hands; another is to call for ‘a…
Can you answer this quiz intended for seven-year-olds?
‘Modernity’ is often behind the times. On Wednesday, parliament pushed out all remaining hereditary peers, although we live in an…
Is Reform now Scotland’s leading unionist party?
In Scotland, a changing of the guard is near. But while Hearts are set to break the duopoly of Celtic…
When will we admit that the special relationship does not exist?
It was to King Charles’s great credit that he refused to fall for the Trump power handshake thing and instead…
The ‘sensible’ class is losing control of the House of Lords
The House of Lords is often described as ‘the best private members’ club in London’. Certainly, it has an appearance…
With a shudder, I’m voting Labour in the local elections
You may be disturbed by a column urging whites (among others) to vote as a bloc in the coming local…
My night under fire at the White House correspondents’ dinner
Last Saturday evening, the American media class descended for its annual jamboree of back-slapping at the Washington Hilton. Protestors outside…
I’ll dare to say what Andy Haldane doesn’t
A sandwich with Andy Haldane, the former Bank of England economist, now president of British Chambers of Commerce, is the…
No one seems sure about why Olly Robbins had to go
This session of parliament is due to end between 29 April and 6 May. Now the government is desperate for…
‘Even Corbyn at his worst never lost here’: how bad will it be for Labour in Wales?
Of all Labour’s heartlands, none has more mythos or magic than Wales. Its history of pits and pulpits produced Nye…
Voters get the politicians they deserve – so get ready for PM Polanski
It is a truism that in a democracy the voters get the government they deserve – and so we should…
For progressives, ‘ageing’ is the one acceptable slur
Willie Donaldson, who died in 2005, has a claim to having had the best obituary sub-heading of any writer I…
Tea-towel-gate is everything wrong with modern Britain
During last September’s freshers’ fair at Royal Holloway, University of London, two students got into a brief verbal tiff that…
People need to calm down about Nigel Farage’s bitcoin wheeze
There’s a Tube strike in the old-fashioned style as I write – and you’ll understand the irritation, mine and that…
Britain’s ‘drone gap’ makes us vulnerable
When John Healey was asked, on stage at the London Defence Conference, whether the armed forces were ‘ready’ for war,…
What we can learn from the Southport killer
It was a matter of some disappointment to me that Kanye West was barred entry to this country as a…
How nice it is we no longer have to think about John Bercow
On Tuesday, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport approved the sale of my employers, the Telegraph Group, to Axel…
Trump’s goals in Iran have always been clear
The bombing of the Revolutionary government in Iran is drawing comparisons with the war in Iraq. But the comparisons are…
Tomorrow belongs to the vegetarians
Can there be any thinking person who has passed a lorry filled with live animals peering out through the slats…
What happened to Britain’s fighting spirit?
When war is in the air, young men traditionally sign up – and they traditionally sign up, disproportionately, from the…
A private credit crash is coming
What with headlines focused on the Strait of Hormuz and scare stories about out-of-control AI, forecasts of a storm in…
The Tory-fication of Reform
Nigel Farage likes a gamble. Crypto bros and hedge-fund managers bankroll his enterprises; his social circle is filled with traders,…
The only ‘civilisation’ Trump will destroy is his own
If, as Donald Trump had threatened, ‘a whole civilisation’ had died on Tuesday night, the whole civilisation concerned would have…
Do you suffer from ‘excited delirium syndrome’?
Hadiza Atunse, a 25-year-old PA, smashed her Toyota Auris into a Mini Cooper, spun out of control and flipped into…
The dubious rise of Tariq Ramadan
There has been so much news of late that stories which might once have caused a splash have sailed by…
