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Germany is going to have to get used to the AfD
This week, the right-wing Alternative for Deutschland party suffered one of its first setbacks of the year, after it failed…
The knives sharpen for GB News
The GB News row rumbles on, with its enemies seeing the perfect chance to call for its closure. A genuinely…
Net zero zealots will probably find a way to stop Rosebank
So, Rosebank is to go ahead, or so we think. The North Sea Transition Authority has granted a licence for…
Can China contain Evergrande’s collapse?
The Chinese Communist party appears set to kill off its largest economic zombie, while gambling that it can control the…
It’s Fox vs Wootton, as GB News debacle deepens
Oh dear. It seems that the self-proclaimed ‘People’s Channel’ has been at it again. GB News has been forced to…
Americans care less and less about Trump’s legal troubles
Another day in America, another judgment against the Trump family. In the latest, New York state Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron…
Will Ulez spell the end for Sadiq Khan?
Sadiq Khan showed little sign of being discomfited by the result of the Uxbridge by-election in July. In spite of…
By striking Crimea, Kyiv shows Putin that nowhere is safe
Admiral Viktor Sokolov, commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, appears to be Schrodinger’s admiral, alive according to Moscow, dead according…
Eco-technocrats in Brussels risk posing a threat to democracy
Any serious politician knows perfectly well by now that net zero 2050 won’t fly democratically. There was an inevitability about…
Justin Trudeau’s Nazi blind spot
Justin Trudeau’s government sees fascists everywhere, except when one is standing right under their nose. That’s the brilliant if bleak…
Is the Biden campaign panicking yet?
President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign has a major disadvantage. With no pandemic, Biden can no longer campaign from his basement…
Starmer’s private school tax is a terrible, vote-losing idea
Today Labour have confirmed that they will impose VAT on private schools in its first year of power if it…
Can Dr Jenny Harries accept her lockdown mistake?
Next time there’s a pandemic, the advice of Dr Jenny Harries will be crucial. She runs the UK Health Security…
Who polices our armed officers?
When is it acceptable for the police to kill? How do we regulate their use of lethal force? What is…
How Canada’s parliament ended up celebrating a former Nazi
Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February last year. By the end of March, the streets of cities all over the…
BLM protestor admits fundraiser fraud
Three years on from the toppling of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol, an organiser of a Black Lives Matter…
Welcome to ‘sick note Britain’
Is the country morphing into ‘sick note Britain’? According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the average…
The slow death of ‘balanced literacy’
To start a fire, you need a match, something that burns and air. So to speak. If you don’t have…
The quiet truth about two-parent families
Imagine a key that opened the door to a place where children did better at school, were less likely to…
Is it foolish to think the world can achieve net zero by 2050?
Most discussion of net zero in Britain seems strangely parochial. We only really talk about UK emissions, even though they…
The deep absurdity of HS2 diversity’s agenda
When it comes to British railway history, I can say, without exaggeration, that few places are more iconically located than…
Has Trudeau allowed Khalistani extremism to flourish in Canada?
On September 18, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the bombshell announcement that: ‘Over the past number of weeks Canadian security…
Spurious equal pay claims are a disaster for local councils
Bankrupt councils have gotten into trouble through profligate spending on loony projects like month-long Pride events and training staff in…
Roque is alive and well in Angelica, New York
Goose-pulling is dead and gone, and lawn darts are on life support, but roque is alive and well and avoiding…
Who can blame armed police officers for handing back their guns?
The Metropolitan Police has, for now, staved off a crisis. The force says that enough armed officers have returned to…
