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Why should British taxpayers fund students’ European Erasmus jollies?
Half a billion pounds of taxpayers’ money will be spent on rejoining the EU’s Erasmus+ student exchange programme. With libraries…
The police crackdown on ‘globalise the intifada’ chants is too little, too late
Protesters chanting ‘globalise the intifada’ will now be arrested, according to the heads of Greater Manchester Police and the Metropolitan…
Trump’s firehose of MAGA rhetoric
Rumors flew around like great, big beautiful birds ahead of President Trump’s address to the nation tonight. Was he going…
Trump reels off 2025 achievements in White House address
As a mighty US armada bobs in the Caribbean off the shores of Venezuela, President Trump just addressed the nation…
Boris Johnson: will cowardly Europe betray Ukraine again?
Boris Johnson has urged European leaders to hand $247 billion of frozen Russian central bank assets to Ukraine – but…
An unhappy Christmas PMQs for Keir Starmer
Thank God! Today was the last Prime Minister’s Questions before Christmas and so Sir Keir and Mrs Badenoch began their…
Badenoch – and Starmer – should work on their PMQs jokes
Kemi Badenoch and Keir Starmer conformed to time-honoured tradition today at Prime Minister’s Questions by producing lots of jokes that…
European leaders have changed their tune on war
Ten days after Thanksgiving, news watchers were exposed to one of the more culturally incongruous images in recent history: Ukrainian…
The yearly flu crisis is entirely avoidable
Each winter our NHS is struck by an ‘unprecedented’ number of cases of seasonal illness. Politicians talk gravely of the…
Did Britain need to rejoin Erasmus?
Is the government engaged in a campaign by stealth to return the UK to membership of the EU? It couldn’t…
Keir Starmer’s union woes just got worse
During the dying days of Rishi Sunak’s regime, Labour politicians liked to encourage the idea that a change of government…
The Church of England’s gay marriage row will rumble on
The Church of England’s House of Bishops met to discuss the Living in Love and Faith (LLF) project yesterday: that…
Why is the Scottish government so afraid of a grooming gangs inquiry?
The Scottish parliament has voted in favour of allowing government ministers to mislead it. That is the effect of a…
The anti-Muslim hate definition will be bad for free speech
After a long wait, the government’s Islamophobia definition has finally taken form. There has been plenty of criticism of the idea,…
Albanese has failed to step up after the Bondi beach attack
It’s been three days since the jihad against innocent Jews at Sydney’s Bondi beach. A nation’s grief is swiftly turning…
The West has become ungovernable
My favorite opinion poll of recent times was the one which showed that Donald Trump is disliked by more than…
Why I corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein
Olivia Nuzzi, the young and talented Trump reporter, committed the apparently cardinal sin of becoming romantically entangled with a subject.…
Will we ever know the truth about Epstein?
Now that Congress has passed a law – not a flimsy resolution, but a law – mandating that the Trump…
Jared Kushner’s international friendships with benefits
In 1998, the conservative intellectual and moralist Bill Bennett published a book, The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault…
A late Congolese ruler with a new following
At the exit of the National Museum in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is a whiteboard…
A chief White House usher of 21 years is the ultimate insider
Gary J. Walters knows where a lot of the bodies are buried in the White House. He was chief usher…
Portrait of the year
January For three weeks wildfires raged around Los Angeles. Perhaps 30 people were killed but 200,000 were evacuated, 18,000 homes…
Can Rachel Reeves take credit for falling inflation?
For the second month in a row, inflation has fallen. Figures released by the Office for National Statistics show that…
We don’t need a stealth tax on rotisserie chicken
It depends on whether you re-heat it when you get home, apparently. Or whether it is sold in a bag…
Only the US is taking peace seriously in Ukraine
What exactly is the ‘platinum security guarantee’ that Donald Trump is pushing Volodimir Zelensky to accept? While the full details…
