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What Phillip Schofield teaches us about public morality
On one level it’s all fluff and gossip, but the Phillip Schofield story actually raises some interesting questions about what…
Does BBC Verify need to review the Beeb’s own output?
Much has been made about the BBC’s new Verify service, launched last week. According to the Corporation’s glutinous press release,…
French sport has been plunged into crisis
The head of the French Olympic Committee has resigned just over a year out from the Games’ opening in Paris.…
Has New Zealand found the key to the UK’s housing crisis?
It may be difficult to imagine a housing crisis more dismal than the one Britain is experiencing right now, but…
American bully XL dogs should be banned
The American bully XL is, despite its name and reputation, said to be good with children and a friendly dog.…
Record numbers of Russian soldiers are going Awol
Few Russians go willingly to fight in the ‘meat grinder’ of Ukraine, where Russia has faced as many as 100,000…
How trans ideology came for therapy
One afternoon in May 2021, as I was sat at my desk, an email notification from my university course appeared…
Phillip Schofield resigns and admits affair with ‘younger male’
And so the extraordinary Phillip Schofield row rumbles on. Earlier this week it was announced that Schofield was steeping down…
The truth about ‘book bans’
The left is hard launching its response to the parental rights movement sweeping the country, and it has settled on…
The misdirected talent of Mizzy, the ‘TikTok terror’
Tessa Jowell once ignited a furious political row by claiming that inner-city youths active in criminal gangs were exhibiting a…
Welcome to Ouarzawood, Moroccan desert outpost and set of many major movies
It’s been a nearly seven-hour drive up and down the Atlas Mountains from Marrakech before a roundabout appears at the…
The joy of missing out
As I write this the coronation of King Charles hasn’t happened yet, but I’m having great fun watching the procession…
Does a ‘Pride progress’ flag really make rugby more inclusive?
The Rugby Football Union will fly the ‘Pride Progress’ flag at Twickenham this weekend, when a World XV team play…
Online shopping has not killed off the high street, yet
It wasn’t supposed to turn out this way, not at the beginning of the year when the wise and good…
Martin Amis and the death of the lascivious young man
In the days since Martin Amis died at 73 of oesophageal cancer, the papers have been full of tributes. Mostly…
Is Yevgeny Prigozhin having second thoughts about the Ukraine war?
Something strange is happening to Yevgeny Prigozhin. The chief of Vladimir Putin’s mercenary army in Ukraine has begun withdrawing his…
Is America a republic in name only?
Is the United States a one-party state? Surely not. Just look at the ballots the next time you vote. There…
Does Gary Lineker deserve Amnesty’s human rights award?
‘We need to be careful with the language we use,’ said Gary Lineker as he picked up an award from…
Is a referendum the answer to solving France’s migrant crisis?
Paris has a problem. The city currently houses some 5,000 migrants in hotels, much to the chagrin of the capital’s…
What Parkrun gets wrong about trans rights
Siân Longthorpe’s record breaking time of 18 minutes and 53 seconds in the Porthcawl Parkrun highlights all that is wrong…
When will the Tories come clean on their migration plan?
Net annual immigration – which successive Tory manifestos promised the electorate would be brought down below 100,000 – has just…
Just Stop Oil’s Chelsea Flower Show protest is a new low
You have to sink low, very low, to target the Chelsea Flower show for an environmental protest. But the boys…
Net migration hits record high – but is significantly lower than expected
It’s three years since the UK formally left the European Union and cut off free movement, and net migration has…
DeSantis’s presidential ambitions are crashing to earth
People imagine that the real world is similar to the dark side of the TV show Succession. For some reason…
The trouble with Britain’s net migration figure
Where to start with the net migration figures? As someone who has generally defended liberal immigration policies, I could just shout,…
