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Bad education
Rishi Sunak tends to shy away from social issues so it has been left to a backbencher, Miriam Cates, to…
Europe turns right
On her recent visit to Washington, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves presented herself as the perfect candidate to be the next…
Birth rights
British politicians tend to avoid the issue of abortion. The subject divides America bitterly, yet Britain has opted for consensus.…
Don’t stifle AI
In his meeting with Joe Biden this week, Rishi Sunak proposed a research centre and regulatory body for artificial intelligence…
The politics of panic
It is 15 months since Sweden’s Coronavirus Commission presented its final report. The 770-page document analysed how the country handled…
The Ely agenda
‘There’s a lot of societal issues in Ely,’ said an anonymous caller to BBC Radio Wales the morning after the…
University challenge
Our country still excels when it comes to higher education. Britain has seven of the world’s top 50 universities. In…
Putin’s last laugh
There was much mirth in the West this week when Vladimir Putin’s Victory Day parade through Red Square included just…
Crowning glory
What the world will see when Charles III is crowned is not just the rare spectacle of a monarchy that…
Eclipses and revolutions
The fiasco in Khartoum is being widely interpreted as a tragic failure of intelligence. James Cleverly, the Foreign Secretary, is…
Breaking News
The idea that Donald Trump was denied victory in the 2020 presidential election by conspirators determined to fiddle with the…
Reign or shine
The United Kingdom is one of the last countries in the world to host lavish coronation ceremonies. Europe’s new kings…
Lessons from Lawson
Nigel Lawson was the most consequential chancellor in modern British history. He gave the world a case study in how…
Mistaken identity
The World Athletics Council has taken the decisive step of announcing that transgender women who underwent male puberty before their…
Party games
Boris Johnson should not be forgiven for his handling of lockdown. He needlessly criminalised everyday behaviour when voluntary guidelines would…
The missing million
There was plenty of miserable economic news in this week’s Budget: the highest taxes imposed by any peacetime government, the…
Our duty to refugees
It is hard to deny that the government must take tough action on the issue of migrants arriving in Britain…
Anatomy of a scandal
Last summer, Rishi Sunak told this magazine about what happened inside government during lockdown. The policy, he said, had been…
The SNP’s purity test
It seems as if Kate Forbes is about to achieve the remarkable distinction of losing an election as a result…
State of the Union
Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation as First Minister of Scotland comes at a critical moment for the Union, since the question of…
What Turkey needs
This week’s earthquake in Turkey and northern Syria is a reminder that in spite of civilisation’s advance and human ingenuity,…
Green and pleasant
To listen to many environmental campaigners, you would think that Britain was a toxic wasteland. They tell us that our…
When the system fails
Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai, 21, an Afghan convicted this week of murdering a man in Bournemouth last year, had previously murdered two…
The Boris delusion
Loyalty, it used to be said, was the secret weapon of the Conservative party. That hasn’t been true for some…
Watch this space
The attempted launch of a rocket via a Boeing 747 from Spaceport Cornwall – the first such attempt in Europe…
