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Australian politics is becoming increasingly toxic
Wangaratta is a busy regional town in northern Victoria. It’s a place to stop and take a break on the…
Why did ITV’s hit job on Reform flop so badly?
ITV clearly hoped their latest documentary would be a shocking exposé of Reform. Their year-long investigation involved an undercover reporter…
Jonathan Powell’s wife backed Starmer being tried at the Hague
Sarah Helm, the wife of Britain’s national security adviser Jonathan Powell, has had a busy 24 hours. The Spectator revealed yesterday that she…
Tories take aim at polygamous marriages in welfare crackdown
The Tories are taking the fight to polygamous and incestuous marriage today, with a Bill to end welfare recognition of…
Britain is right to ally with Oman
On the morning of 19 July 1972, around 400 communist insurgents launched a surprise attack on the Omani coastal town…
Is the jobs collapse finally starting to slow?
Has the jobs market bottomed out? Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that, unexpectedly, the…
Watching Paris burn hasn’t been enjoyable at all
Watching Paris burn at the weekend, it occurred to me that saying ‘I told you so’ was a lot less…
France is far too soft on crime
France experienced its first night of calm since the weekend on Monday evening after the imposition of curfews in several…
The Palestine flag has become the symbol of anti-western hate
Given that the French-speaking world gave us the science of semiotics, they would be the first to recognise that the…
The idiocy and profligacy of the left-wing Canary news
The left-wing Canary news website is to close, blaming debanking and a ‘vicious campaign of malicious lies’ conducted by its…
Putin can smell Washington’s desperation
Donald Trump has staked a big chunk of his political credibility on finding peace in Ukraine – and by doing…
Could this be the end of the French Fifth Republic?
May 1958. After 12 years, France’s Fourth Republic was ungovernable, with cabinets lasting barely seven months on average. Four years…
Could things get any worse for BBC Verify?
When Tim Davie, the former BBC director-general, announced the expansion of BBC Verify, the organisation’s external fact-checking branch, last May,…
Does John Healey want to kill off the family business?
Rachel Reeves made a great start – but now it looks as if her successor as Chancellor John Healey is…
Has Netflix missed a trick with Meghan Markle?
Now that Meghan Markle has successfully – in her own estimation, at least – once again won the battle for…
Revealed: the ‘Palestine poppy’ creator who justified stoning
The creator of the ‘Palestine poppy’ is an Oxford-educated paediatrician who has written books for Muslim teenagers justifying stoning and…
The truth about Labour’s junk food promotion ban
Andy Burnham’s government is reportedly pressing ahead with further restrictions on promoting unhealthy foods with deals like ‘buy one get one free’.…
Who is going to enforce Burnham’s train noise crackdown?
You’ve got to hand it to Andy Burnham. The world is on fire, the country is in a mess, but…
For Putin, Trump is the gift that keeps on giving
The diesel deal between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump has finally broken the relationship between Washington and Kyiv. If the…
Will Labour MPs allow Burnham to end the Neets crisis?
I can’t fault the sentiment contained in a piece which has appeared under Andy Burnham’s name this morning about the…
In Texas, it’s Musk vs Talarico
Here’s an update on the state of Trumpism in America: last month, the richest man in world history threw $158 million into…
Why was Mohammed Yaseen treated better than our SAS?
What should be done with a foreign man who has been a ‘hardened terrorist’ since he was 16, was a…
Revealed: Jonathan Powell’s wife has defended Hamas
Sarah Helm, the wife of Britain’s national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, took flak last week after appearing to support Palestine…
Chris Bryant throws a work-shy strop over NEETs question
Cabinet minister Chris Bryant threw a petulant strop on the airwaves this morning after the BBC dared to ask him…
The utter absurdity of the Sally Rooney affair
Last week I got an email from a colleague I respect on another magazine, prefaced with the assertion that it…
