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The middle-class obsession with the miners’ strike

27 February 2024 5:00 pm

The miners’ strike has struck again. It’s the fortieth anniversary of the protracted dispute of 1984-85, which means that you…

Biden’s absurd student loan ‘solution’

27 February 2024 8:42 am

You’ve got to hand it to President Biden — when he puts his mind to something he doesn’t let mere…

Labour loses control of the credit card

27 February 2024 5:44 am

After four straight election defeats, Labour are desperately keen to prove that the party has changed. Gone – supposedly –…

The Church of England should stop distracting itself with ‘racial justice’

27 February 2024 4:37 am

Churches are emptier than ever since Covid. Fewer clergy have more and more parishes to look after; the buildings themselves are…

Trump needs some of Nikki Haley’s voters

27 February 2024 4:25 am

The hard math is clear for Nikki Haley. Even as she overperformed many polls that had her struggling to top…

Is there a house-building cartel?

27 February 2024 4:17 am

The Competition and Markets Authority report on the housing sector should be a boost to the Yimby policy machine. It…

John Kerry has unwittingly exposed the climate change wheeze

27 February 2024 2:25 am

Here’s a good wheeze: prod every last inch of your own country, open the taps and become the world’s largest…

Lee Anderson doubles down in Islamist row

27 February 2024 1:34 am

Rishi Sunak withdrew the whip from Lee Anderson on Saturday over his claim that Sadiq Khan had ‘given our capital…

Angela Rayner facing questions over council house sale

26 February 2024 10:56 pm

A difficult Monday morning for Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner. The right-on left-winger is facing some tricky questions today after…

Liverpool fans should stop booing the national anthem

26 February 2024 10:22 pm

Liverpool fans, a significant number at least, booed the national anthem at the Carabao Cup final at Wembley yesterday. It wasn’t the…

Javier Milei’s Argentine revolution seems to be working

26 February 2024 9:39 pm

The currency would collapse. Output would go into freefall. Unemployment would soar, and the IMF would be back in charge…

Netanyahu’s post-war Gaza plan looks dead on arrival

26 February 2024 9:22 pm

Israel’s government has finally begun to turn its attention to what happens once the war in Gaza is over. The…

France expels Islamists while Britain appeases them

26 February 2024 8:30 pm

France last week deported an imam after footage emerged of him appearing to preach hate. Mahjoub Mahjoubi, who has lived in France since…

Can the EU survive another five years of Ursula von der Leyen?

26 February 2024 7:00 pm

Ursula von der Leyen came to the post of President of the European Commission five years ago with a less…

Will Navalny be given a public funeral?

26 February 2024 5:15 pm

Nine days after Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic prison colony, his body was finally handed over to his mother…

What if digital learning is a catastrophe?

26 February 2024 5:00 pm

There’s a lot of talk in the papers about the importance of banning smartphones from schools. Quite right too. The…

Inside Bannon and Burra’s post-CPAC blowout

26 February 2024 7:34 am

National Harbor, Maryland “CPAC 2024 was a HUGE success!,” the conference’s account tweeted this morning. Cockburn isn’t sure how they’re…

Zelensky: ‘31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed so far’

26 February 2024 6:48 am

After two years of secrecy, Volodymyr Zelensky has finally revealed the number of fallen Ukrainian soldiers. ‘31,000 Ukrainian military personnel…

The fantastical myths that swirl around Vladimir Putin

26 February 2024 2:19 am

If there is one man who is probably happiest that Vladimir Putin’s travel schedule has been so heavily curtailed of…

The Lee Anderson row shows the Tory party has broken down

26 February 2024 12:34 am

What are we to make of the Lee Anderson saga? The very fact that this low-rent furore is dominating our Sunday…

Oliver Dowden: ‘Words matter’ in Lee Anderson Islamophobia row

25 February 2024 11:24 pm

Lee Anderson was stripped of the Tory whip yestereday after refusing to apologise for remarks in which he claimed ‘Islamists’…

Nikki Haley’s candidacy is Never Trumpism’s last stand

25 February 2024 10:54 pm

‘I’m a woman of my word,’ said Nikki Haley after another humiliating defeat last night. ‘I’m not giving up this…

Low birth rates are a threat to humanity

25 February 2024 5:30 pm

The village we moved to in central Italy is lovely – old stone houses and olive trees on a hillside – but…

Viktor Orban is not abandoning Europe

25 February 2024 5:30 pm

The news that Hungary and China have signed a security pact, following a visit by to Budapest by Wang Xiaohong,…

Why are Japan’s trains so much better than ours?

25 February 2024 5:25 pm

With six more months of train strikes recently announced it is getting hard to imagine a punctual, anxiety-free railway journey…