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Brexit could fix inflation

30 May 2023 7:56 pm

Has food price inflation finally peaked? Figures released by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) this morning reveal that food prices…

France’s failure to tackle migration is a warning to the Tories

30 May 2023 7:09 pm

Perhaps the most illuminating comment made by Nigel Farage during his discussion with Fraser Nelson on Spectator TV earlier this…

Moscow is now a target in Putin’s war

30 May 2023 6:36 pm

Russian drones attacked Kyiv last night, the 17th such assault this month. But this time there was a difference: just…

Czech Foreign Minister: Ukraine needs to ‘transform’ before it can join the EU

30 May 2023 6:18 pm

It doesn’t take long for visitors to Prague to figure out how the locals feel about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.…

Can the Heritage Foundation unite the right?

30 May 2023 2:15 pm

Last September I was sitting in the crowd at the annual National Conservatism Conference, lamenting the fact that my hotel…

Blink and you’ll miss this libertarian moment

30 May 2023 8:38 am

Political years are the opposite of dog years: they pass by in a blaze, with entire epochs elapsing in the…

A parting salute to the swizzle stick

30 May 2023 2:32 am

We live in the age of takeaway-everything, a phenomenon amplified since the late, great plague by another barbarism: the drive-thru.…

How to become a ‘salad freak’

30 May 2023 2:29 am

Imagine a summer morning in Southern California. You rise with the sun in a palm-shaded bungalow and stroll to a…

What the rise of Vox means for Spain

30 May 2023 1:37 am

Vox, the most right-wing of Spain’s mainstream political parties, has emerged considerably strengthened from Sunday’s local and regional elections. With…

Erdogan made himself indispensable – to Turkey and the West

30 May 2023 12:21 am

Some Turks voted for the devil they knew. More voted for the hero they knew. Either way, Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s…

Europe’s rightward drift and the myth of backwards Britain

29 May 2023 10:26 pm

It is an idée fixe among British Europhiles that continental Europe is a progressive place firmly wedded to left-wing parties…

How much compensation should contaminated blood victims get?

29 May 2023 8:56 pm

The Financial Times estimated on 10 May that the impending compensation relating to the UK haemophilia treatment misadventure around 1980…

Erdogan’s debts are piling up

29 May 2023 5:30 pm

President Erdogan once again emerged victorious in Sunday’s presidential elections. In the highly contested race, he secured 52 per cent…

The next Chinese tech threat is already here

29 May 2023 5:30 pm

In recent years we’ve had fierce debates about the safety and security of Huawei, 5G, TikTok, semiconductors, ChatGPT and artificial…

The French academic paying a heavy price for probing the Muslim Brotherhood

29 May 2023 4:30 pm

Loitering by the entrance, I clock a large gentleman with tattoos crawling up his neck from underneath his collar. It’s…

The trouble with Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra

29 May 2023 4:00 pm

It’s the worst thing to happen to Cleopatra since that snake in the mausoleum. Queen Cleopatra is the second season…

The legal challenge to assisted suicide

29 May 2023 2:15 pm

Lonnie VanHook was preparing to board the train to Oregon when his body gave out. The Navy veteran is accustomed…

Are electric vehicles really the future?

29 May 2023 2:05 pm

It’s a cloudless spring day, made for a country drive. Chartreuse trees explode with pollen and glow to near neon.…

Why Erdogan won

29 May 2023 7:44 am

This was supposed to be the year when Recep Erdogan would finally come to grief. Instead, he has defied the…

The malign influence of Mermaids is becoming increasingly clear

29 May 2023 2:49 am

While I was writing about the latest scandalous revelation involving the children’s charity Mermaids and the Tavistock Gender identity development service (GIDS)…

Diversity and inclusion doesn’t belong in the maths curriculum

28 May 2023 9:17 pm

In March, the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) – an independent body which oversees standards and quality in UK…

Fixing food prices is a recipe for disaster

28 May 2023 6:36 pm

It wasn’t long ago that supermarkets stood accused of selling food too cheaply. Their price wars and two-for-the-price-of-one deals were…

Let’s call time on football’s absurd beer ban

28 May 2023 4:30 pm

When Qatar announced an alcohol ban at last year’s football World Cup, there was uproar. The decision, made public a…

‘I’m a singer, not a politician’: An interview with Ukraine’s Eurovision winner Jamala

28 May 2023 3:00 pm

Tucked in the margins of the recent Eurovision Song Contest was Jamala’s 30-second cameo of 1944, her winning song from…

Conservatives are blaming civil servants for their own failings

28 May 2023 5:38 am

Conservatives are once again doing what they do best: whining. By ‘conservatives’, I don’t mean conservatives in any meaningful sense,…