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Danes haven’t always taken a great interest in Greenland
After a week on high alert, everyone can breathe a sigh of relief. Donald Trump has pulled back on his…
Why are doctors pushing contraception onto new mothers?
Six weeks after the birth of my first son in England, my GP asked about my plans for contraception. When…
Does Davos calm the polycrisis, or make it worse?
A most unlikely proposition emerged this week in Davos. Larry Fink, interim co-head of the World Economic Forum, proposed moving…
The Chagos deal risks turning Britain into a vassal of China
If one is in any doubt as to Great Britain’s decline and fall, look no further than 20 January, when…
Will the FBI burn through Kash?
FBI Director Kash Patel popped up in several news stories on Friday. He does this periodically, like a skin or…
Starmer pauses Chagos deal
Keir Starmer has tonight been forced to stall the Bill which would hand the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius. The…
Surrogacy isn’t something to celebrate
Pop star Meghan Trainor posted a photograph this week skin-to-skin with her newborn daughter, ‘Mikey Moon’, who was still slick with fluids…
Is Donald Trump making the Middle East more dangerous?
The Middle East has entered a phase where events no longer necessarily resolve into outcomes. They pause, harden, and then…
What do London’s overpaid deputy mayors actually do?
Walk through central London with your phone out, and it might not be yours for much longer. Theft in the…
Prince Harry couldn’t hide his anger during his court showdown
When Prince Harry left the witness box at the UK High Court this afternoon, it was observed that he was…
Badenoch pledges to MPs to keep right
To committee room 14, where many of the remaining 117 Tory MPs crammed in tonight to hear from their leader.…
Call her Obama
Michelle Obama is the latest guest on the Call Her Daddy podcast – the raunchy girlfest “Howard Stern for women”…
Could military service become morally untenable for Catholics?
During his lengthy interview with the New York Times, President Trump was asked if there was anything that could check his…
Where Britain should position itself in Trump’s new world order
When Donald Trump stood up at Davos today and repeated his ambition to acquire Greenland, he did more than revive…
Europe got off lightly in Trump’s Davos speech
A sigh of relief at this point may prove premature, but perhaps we can permit ourselves a modest expulsion of…
Keir Starmer’s PMQs performance was his most shameless yet
One of the least successful operas in history received a revival at Westminster this week. ‘Die Frau ohne Schatten’ –…
Trump’s credible threat at Davos
The headline from Trump’s Davos speech is clear: I won’t use military force to take Greenland. That’s what the President…
Keir Starmer talked tough on Trump at PMQs
Keir Starmer tried to use Prime Minister’s Questions today to deliver what he hoped was a tough new line on…
Europe must give Trump what he wants
Tensions between the United States and Europe have prompted a rethink about defence spending among European elites. The postwar paradigm…
The civil service cares more about ‘trans equality’ than women
The Supreme Court’s ruling that the legal definition of ‘woman’ is ‘biological female’ should have meant game over for trans…
Trump sees the EU for the bully it is
There has always been a touch of the actor about Emmanuel Macron, and the President of France was at his…
Syria’s Islamic State camps could fall
As Syrian government forces advance into the formerly Kurdish controlled north east of the country, the issue of future arrangements…
The crisis in Britain’s newest prison is embarrassing
Local monitors at Britain’s newest £400 million ‘super prison’, HMP Millsike, have written to ministers to raise the alarm about…
Ed Miliband’s warm homes scheme is good news for cowboy builders
The cowboys must be licking their lips. Ed Miliband has come up with yet another green homes scheme to chuck…
Why inflation is up again
Inflation has crept back up. Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the Consumer Prices Index…
