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How The Salt Path bewitched a nation
Like millions of others, I thoroughly enjoyed reading The Salt Path, an account of how a penniless and homeless middle-aged couple…
Japan is running out of time to save itself from Trump’s tariffs
‘This is a serious situation for Japan’. That was the verdict of the business editor on NHK’s morning news programme…
Norman Tebbit was a proper politician
Norman Tebbit, who has died at the age of 94, was one of the dominant political figures of my youth.…
Britain is heading for economic catastrophe
Britain is in trouble. That’s the judgement of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) in their ‘fiscal risks and sustainability’…
There’ll never be another Norman Tebbit
The death of Norman Tebbit at the great age of 94 marks a real ending of an era. They simply…
Norman Tebbit: Thatcherite icon
Norman Tebbit, the longtime keeper of the Thatcherite flame, has died at the age of 94. His career in public…
Elon Musk’s America party could hurt Republicans
Elon Musk has set up a third party and pledged to contest next year’s midterms. But to find a third…
The Dubai influencer craze can’t end quick enough
Marcus Fakana, a British 18 year old, has been in prison in the United Arab Emirates since December. His crime?…
Is Labour prepared to alienate SEND parents?
Welcome to the Isle of Sheppey, a stretch of pebbled beaches and caravan parks that regularly stars in the ONS’s…
Organised crime has conquered Britain’s prisons
Charlie Taylor, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, has published his first annual report since Labour took office. It will make…
Europe must prepare to support Ukraine without America
It is unquestionably the case that people who should have known better were blinded by the Capri-Sun King’s glare when…
What was missing from the 7/7 commemorations
Something was scarce, if not absent, in the commemorations of the 7/7 Islamist attacks yesterday, and that is the fact…
Britain’s parliament doesn’t need to hear from Emmanuel Macron
If ever a French president needed a state visit to Britain, it is Emmanuel Macron. All the pomp and ceremony…
Period talk needs to stop. Period
When the supermodel Brooks Nader’s period started at Wimbledon, naturally she turned to social media. ‘Tries to be chic. Starts…
Elon Musk is America’s dumbest smart person
Anyone who has perambulated through the groves of academe has encountered dumb smart people. They are clever, intellectually nimble, but they…
Tucker tosses softballs to Iran
“I didn’t ask hard questions because I knew I wouldn’t get an honest answer,” said Tucker Carlson, our edgelord Barbara…
RFK Jr. faces down M&M’s
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may have finally met his match: the green M&M. Mars, which manufactures various popular candies including…
Can Trump get Netanyahu to end the war in Gaza?
Benjamin Netanyahu has landed in Washington for talks with Donald Trump about the war in Gaza. These, combined with Israel-Hamas…
The ghost of Liz Truss haunts parliament
Today’s Urgent Question in the House of Commons about the state of the economy was dominated by two people who…
We’ll never know the truth about Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, he did his sex crimes in private and no one who associated with him – much less visited his…
Must we forgive the 7/7 bombers?
‘Bear in mind these dead, I can find no plainer words,’ wrote the Northern Irish poet John Hewitt reflecting on…
Was Easter Island less isolated than we previously thought?
It’s hard to exaggerate how isolated Easter Island was before its discovery by Polynesian sailors eight or nine centuries ago.…
There’s one thing readers enjoy more than a story like The Salt Path
Only last week, I was having lunch when The Salt Path came up in conversation. ‘That’s the one about the…
In defence of Wimbledon’s AI line judge
Does anything work in Broken Britain? You’d be forgiven for wondering when even during our most prestigious sporting tournaments the…
Don’t politicize the Texas flood
It’s early Monday morning here in Central Texas, and the rain just keeps on falling. Over the wettest weekend any…
