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Why I won’t grow up
Recently, a famous American novelist came to stay at my place in London. In her later Substack post she described…
Coutts’ reputation committee has destroyed its own reputation
Nigel Farage has been cancelled by his bank because their reputation risk committee doesn’t approve of his political views and…
Revealed: The Coutts files on Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage’s bank account with Coutts was closed earlier this year. Here is the bank’s dossier, obtained by Farage using…
How investors could benefit from the cooling housing market
There are, of course, many people struggling with their mortgage repayments. There are first-time buyers who have been especially hard…
The strange disappearance of China’s foreign minister
It is strange and surreal, even by the standards of the looking-glass world of the Chinese Communist party (CCP). Foreign…
Susan Hall wins Tory mayoral race
The Tories now have their candidate to take on Sadiq Khan next May. Susan Hall, the right wing member of…
What would Trump’s second-term foreign policy look like?
Former president Donald Trump is in a world of legal trouble. Not only is he the first president in history…
Sunak still has his work cut out to halve inflation
The rate of inflation has fallen again. CPI rose 7.9 per cent on the year in June, down from 8.7…
Will the BBC now apologise to Nigel Farage?
Oh dear. It seems that Auntie has done it again. This time it’s the row over Nigel Farage’s bank account,…
Trans guidance for schools can’t come soon enough
The Department for Education has delayed yet further its long-awaited transgender guidance for schools. Rishi Sunak had pledged that the document would…
Watch: Nigel Farage claims Coutts account shut over his ‘values’
The plot thickens. Nigel Farage claims he has got to the bottom of why he was ditched by the elite…
The strange glee over the European heatwave
You could almost sense climate campaigners willing those thermometers in Sardinia to nudge into the unknown – a reading above…
Biden announces student loan forgiveness following Supreme Court ruling
The Biden administration announced on Friday that they would erase $39 billion for 800,000 borrowers due to inaccurate payment counts…
Why was Carla Foster ever sent to prison?
Carla Foster is to be released from prison. Her 28-month sentence for illegally obtaining abortion pills and terminating a pregnancy…
Tobias Ellwood is being the Taliban’s useful idiot
It has now been almost two years since the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan. In recent weeks, a number…
Tobias Ellwood’s Taliban blunder
It’s long been the case that trips abroad can allow for a new perspective – to broaden the mind. But…
Cooking with a country music star
A few years ago, I came across a delightful bit of Americana in Hobart Book Village in the Catskills: Naomi’s Home…
Alan Titchmarsh speaks sense about the ‘rewilding’ craze
Is rewilding, where nature is allowed to take its course, all it’s cracked up to be? Alan Titchmarsh, the nation’s…
I’m proud of my rip-off degree
Whenever the right gets itself in a froth over ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees, I keep my head down. You see, I…
Does Labour know the point of going to university?
It’s not difficult to pick holes in Gillian Keegan’s plan, publicised over the weekend, to deal with so-called ‘rip off’ university…
Australia’s Commonwealth games disgrace
In world sport, the Commonwealth games are a bit of a sideshow. In swimming and athletics, at least, they are…
Is Sunak any closer to implementing his Rwanda plan?
When the Lib Dem peer Brian Paddick complained on social media last month that the House of Lords was keeping…
Illegal Migration Bill passed by Lords
The Illegal Migration Bill is making its final crossing today to become an Act, after peers and MPs voted into…
Rishi Sunak’s degrees crack down is itself a ‘rip off’
Rishi Sunak is a big fan of a ‘crack down’. He has previously vowed to crack down on migration, anti-social behaviour, climate protests,…
Stop trying to make high culture funky
Clive Myrie, now probably the top face of the BBC, and host of their television coverage of the Proms, had…
