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Has Harry Styles killed the music tour?
Whisper it, but Harry Styles – once talked of as the biggest British pop star since Robbie Williams – may…
David Abulafia was a rare, truth-seeking historian
Death arrives on a day just like any other, often rudely unheralded. We all know that, but it never ceases…
Is time up for Tesla?
Has Tesla run out of road? The electric car firm put plenty of spin on its annual results, talking bullishly…
What the decline of my comprehensive school says about Britain
Magdalen College School in Brackley is providing an ‘inadequate’ quality of education. Behaviour and attitudes at the school are also…
The Waspis never deserved a payout
I want to congratulate the Department for Work and Pensions. They’ve made the excellent decision to – once again –…
Brits are being kept in the dark about asylum crime
As long as Britain’s official orthodoxy remains that diversity is its “strength,” will the authorities ever be straight with the public…
Kanye West’s anti-Semitism apology isn’t enough
When one of the 21st century’s most acclaimed music artists takes out a full-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal…
The police are too tooled up for their – and our – good
In 1830, a pamphleteer expressed concern about the sudden appearance of ‘Raw Lobsters’ on the streets of London. These lobsters…
In praise of Nick Gibb, the schools minister you’ve never heard of
One of the most effective British politicians of recent years is a household name only in the most policy-wonkish of…
Iran is out of good options
Over the last week, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, additional F-15 fighter planes and naval vessels carrying sea-launched cruise…
Dr. Oz’s war on Armenian medical fraud
As Gangs of New York showed us, those who’ve settled in America have a tendency to bring Old World grudges over with…
Deputy PMQs made Starmer vs Badenoch look like Gladstone vs Disraeli
David Lammy’s last appearance at PMQs resembled a multi clown-car pile-up: both tragic and hilarious. Indeed, it was such a disaster…
Kanye West’s anti-Semitism apology isn’t enough
When one of the 21st century’s most acclaimed music artists takes out a full-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal…
For once, David Lammy had a good DPMQs
Today’s Deputy Prime Minister’s Questions was a particularly low-rent affair. Andrew Griffith was the Tory sent out to question David…
The SNP is deluded about the 7 May elections
You’re the SNP. You’ve been in government in Scotland for 19 years on the trot. You have nothing to show…
Badenoch shrugs off trio of Tory defections
After three defections in ten days, what exactly can Kemi Badenoch do to get back on the front foot? This…
Spare us Europe’s World Cup hypocrisy
Europe has come up with a way to hit back at Donald Trump. What began last week as a suggestion…
Keir Starmer’s legal past is catching up with him
Sir Keir Starmer is the most distinguished barrister to occupy the premiership since H.H. Asquith more than a century ago.…
The Greens vs Reform by-election will expose Britain’s real dividing line
People are saying the Gorton and Denton by-election will be a showdown between the Greens and Reform. Between Zack Polanski’s…
What Lego taught me about my own mediocrity
Lego – I can’t bring myself to capitalise it more than once – was born today in 1958, when it…
The public keep being kept in the dark about asylum crime
As long as Britain’s official orthodoxy remains that diversity is our ‘strength’, will the authorities ever be straight with the public…
Why the crashes won’t stop me from using Spanish trains
I am sitting in the nose of a high-speed AVE train from Madrid to Barcelona and the speedometer shoots up…
English protestors in Calais are the left’s useful idiots
Two British men were arrested by French police in Calais on Sunday night. In a statement the Pas-de-Calais prefecture said…
Washington is in a deep freeze
As the Potomac ices over for the first time in decades, Washington is in a deep freeze. Democrats are about…
The nuclear flaw in Keir Starmer’s Chagos deal
The government’s treaty with Mauritius to hand over sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), including the joint UK/US…
