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Why are high street banks teaming up with Stonewall?
Pride month is over but my local bank still has its rainbow-striped window display firmly in place. The LGBTQ+ theme…
Rishi’s Tory rating turns negative
As the average mortgage rate for a five-year fixed deal rises to 6 per cent, Rishi Sunak can find little…
Why did a police officer tell me I was ‘hot’?
Poundbury in Dorset looked beautiful as it prepared for the King’s arrival. Gardeners were sprucing up flowers; painters were hurrying…
No soldier should have been above the law in Afghanistan
The public inquiry into alleged SAS war crimes in Afghanistan hears fresh evidence this week. Lawyers representing Afghan families argue…
The mortgage pain is going to get worse
When the average two-year fixed mortgage hit 6 per cent last month, panic started to set in. For the 1.3…
Will Threads tame Elon Musk’s Twitter?
We will need tighter regulation. We will need new laws and controls. And we will have to organise boycotts of…
Aussie cricketers have nothing to apologise for
The world of cricket suffers from an unjustified moral superiority complex. This explains the periodic howls of outrage when a…
Don’t be fooled by profiteering banks
What a handy distraction it makes for the banks to stand accused of closing down accounts held by Nigel Farage…
Secessionists seethe over the ‘Scottish coronation’
King Charles III is all set for his ‘Scottish coronation’ in Edinburgh tomorrow. Yet despite the royal fervour north of…
The worst excesses of the Saintly Reading Cult
I read a lot of fiction. I always have. It’s not unusual for me to have three of four books…
When will the world wake up to the persecution of Nigerian Christians?
More Christians are killed in Nigeria for their faith than anywhere else in the world. Of the 5,621 people murdered…
Don’t deprive Americans of July 4 fireworks
The Fourth of July is an opportunity to reflect upon the miracle that is the founding of the United States,…
Joe Exotic’s presidential plans from prison
“So you have any advice for other presidential candidates who might end up in federal prison?” I ask Joseph “Exotic”…
US government had EcoHealth researching whether humans could give bats Covid
During the height of the coronavirus, the Department of the Interior teamed up with a scandal-plagued nonprofit organization to investigate…
NPR says Asian Americans should love affirmative action
NPR thinks Asian Americans should stand against the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action whether they like it or not. In…
The useful influencers of Shein
The Soviets had a problem. On March 5, 1940, Stalin had given the order to massacre 14,700 Polish officers, which…
Parliamentary police officer purged every six months
These days, the reputation of the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection (PaDP) Unit is at a low ebb, following the scandals…
Virginia Woolf doesn’t need a trigger warning
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Americans, apparently. Or at least that’s the conclusion Vintage US seems to have drawn. The…
The unedifying Yilin Wang vs British Museum row
If you visited the British Museum’s new exhibition China’s Hidden Century a fortnight ago, you’d have seen a substantial section on the revolutionary woman…
Bank of England: ‘any gender’ can be pregnant
Talk about getting your priorities right. As ministers battle to get inflation down from the double digit highs of earlier…
Red Wall MPs go up against Sunak on legal migration
Rishi Sunak is facing calls from the latest Tory caucus – ‘the New Conservatives’ – to take a series of…
Biden can’t ignore the Taliban’s terrorist links for ever
President Joe Biden is either not being briefed on what is going on in Afghanistan, or more likely choosing not…
France’s riots are fuelling division over Europe’s migrant crisis
The riots that have ravaged France in recent days have given Eric Zemmour a second wind. The leader of the…
The French riots threaten the state’s very existence
How dangerous are riots to the very existence of the French state? Most commentators avoid the question and concentrate on causes.…
John Major has learned nothing over Brexit
Rishi Sunak’s government is sometimes compared to that of John Major, the man who succeeded Margaret Thatcher in 1990, went…
