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Taylor Swift is a rotter
Taylor Swift has released another album spilling the beans on her private life. ‘I’d written so much tortured poetry in…
Whisper it, but Rishi Sunak has had a good week
If you have been doing as badly as Rishi Sunak has as prime minister, then it doesn’t take much to…
Afghanistan won’t be at the Olympics
When the thousands of international athletes march proudly behind their national flags along the banks of the River Seine in…
Life was better in the 1990s
Does anyone else miss the nineties terribly? Everything seemed simpler in that pre-internet era of The Fast Show, the band…
How Ukraine will use American aid
The Kyiv government will need to rush to make use of the new batch of American weapons coming to Ukraine.…
A fairytale of Luton: why the Hatters deserve to stay in the Premier League
As the Premier League season draws to a nail-biting close at both ends of the table, my hometown club of…
The King’s improving health is a relief for the country
Today it was announced that, after a very positive response to his treatment for cancer, King Charles will resume public-facing…
Sadiq Khan should be ashamed of his attack on the Chief Rabbi
A while back, Lee Anderson got himself into trouble for claiming Islamists had ‘got control’ of Sadiq Khan. Levelling said…
Germany’s AfD has become its own worst enemy
As the German AfD’s European election campaign kicks off tomorrow, the far-right party’s leadership could be forgiven for counting down…
How to stop China spying on our universities
Our universities are not safe from the messy realities of spies and geopolitical competition. The most infamous Soviet spy ring in…
The BBC Proms could do much better than Sam Smith
The Proms, in its latest attempt to be accessible and inclusive, has (via the BBC) booked famously ‘non-binary’ singer Sam…
Labour’s plan to renationalise the railways doesn’t add up
Labour’s plan to renationalise the railways is not much of a plan at all. Rather, it is a list of…
Can Humza Yousaf hang on?
Humza Yousaf is facing the biggest crisis of his leadership after the First Minister axed his party’s power-sharing deal with…
The truth about Australia’s controversial crocodile cull
The Northern Territory News, Darwin’s daily paper, is known worldwide for its front pages with headlines so cleverly lurid that…
Ireland can’t blame the Rwanda plan for its immigration woes
‘When in doubt, blame Britain’ has, since Brexit, become something of an iron law of Irish politics. So it came…
A tide of Euroscepticism is sweeping France
Britons should be fearful of Tony Blair’s call to the Labour party to ‘reset’ relations with the EU. The former…
Why do politicians keep getting gender politics wrong?
Gillian Keegan has declared that she will no longer use the slogan, ‘trans women are women’ because, as she explains,…
How Humza Yousaf could survive
Did Humza Yousaf think it through? When he decided, late on Wednesday night, to pull the plug on the Green-SNP…
Who is General Gwyn Jenkins, the UK’s national security adviser ?
The Prime Minister’s announcement this week of an increase in UK defence spending from 2 per cent to 2.5 per cent of GDP by…
Even GB News viewers prefer Starmer to Sunak
Oh dear. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is no stranger to poor poll outcomes – but a new survey may cut…
Why is the BBC censuring Kenneth Clark’s ‘Civilisation’?
‘What is Civilisation? I don’t know. I can’t definite it in abstract terms – yet. But I think I can…
Children could die because of Greenpeace’s Golden Rice activism
First, a word of warning. If you donate money to Greenpeace, you might think you’re helping save the whales or…
Why the EU is raiding Chinese companies
The target of Wednesday’s dawn raid has been on the radar of western security services for some time. There has…
Will under-13 curfews really make France safer?
Rebecca, a British friend who taught theatre studies at a celebrated English public school before she was brutally sacked during…
Is this the beginning of the end for Humza Yousaf?
Scottish politics may be about to enter the abyss following the disintegration of the Green-SNP coalition. The Scottish Conservatives have…
