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What has Putin done with Ukraine’s missing children?
Vladimir Putin’s crimes against Ukraine are often facilely compared with those committed by Hitler’s Nazis during World War Two. As…
Snow problem: getting slushed in Verbier
“There’s no snow. Nothing.” The week after Christmas, 2023. Eager to ski, I’d phoned an old friend living in a…
Trump’s ultra-MAGA crew needs a reality check
In 2020, Democrats made a pragmatic if uninspiring choice in nominating Joe Biden. If this month’s Conservative Political Action Conference…
Can the UK economy outperform Russia?
First the good news. Unlike the IMF, which predicted in January that the UK economy would have a worse 2023…
Welcome to Big State Toryism
A million pounds is very small change in the context of wider government spending – especially compared to the £20…
The case against school uniform
On a normal morning in Winchester, the streets are crowded with sullen teenagers mooching in sleepy phalanxes to school, scruffy…
Pakistan deserves better than Imran Khan
Democracy and the rule of law have always struggled to take hold in Pakistan, a country in which no elected…
Why Macron doesn’t fear the Parisian street protests
France is on the brink of another revolution! The proles are swarming to the barricades and it’s only a matter…
Justin Welby’s gay marriage troubles could be about to get worse
After the hash the Church of England has made of the issue of same-sex marriage, a group of MPs led…
Is Putin’s security service under attack?
Few people in Rostov-on-Don will weep over the news that a local FSB building in the city caught fire yesterday.…
Boris gets a boost as local Tories reselect him
It’s a big week for Boris Johnson as he prepares to give evidence before the Privileges Committee next Wednesday. So…
Contra the hawks, Biden’s defense budget keeps ballooning
This week we heard a lot about AUKUS, a trilateral initiative between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia that will…
Joe Biden’s Medicare tweak throws his party to the wolves
President Biden has been clear: he’s itching to attack Republicans for “wanting to cut Medicare.” But he’s running into a…
The trouble with sex education
Drawing penises and making vulvas out of Play-Doh might not be the reply most parents expect when they pose the…
Is Rishi Sunak really Enoch Powell in disguise?
It may seem like a bizarre question but it’s the one that is obsessing much of the left: is Rishi…
Is Taiwan’s support really ebbing away?
Taiwan has lost another friend. Or at least it soon will, according to the president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro. She…
How Justin Trudeau’s government was compromised by the CCP
Justin Trudeau’s government has been compromised by the Chinese Communist Party and Canada’s democracy is in jeopardy. This is a startling…
Is it curtains for the Conservatives?
Can the Conservatives do it again? The Tories have won four elections in a row but face a struggle to…
Jeremy Hunt’s crafty Budget spells trouble for Labour
Jeremy Hunt was designed to exclude unnecessary body movements. Tall and gaunt, his demeanour faintly bird-like, he worked through his…
The Budget in twelve graphs
Jeremy Hunt has just delivered his second Budget as Chancellor. The top message the Chancellor wants to push is that…
What do Jeremy Hunt’s welfare reforms add up to?
In his Budget speech, Jeremy Hunt made a great play on how Conservatives value work. Tories love talking about this…
The biggest Budget surprise wasn’t one of Jeremy Hunt’s announcements
The biggest surprise from today’s Budget was not an announcement, but the forecasts that gave Jeremy Hunt room for manoeuvre.…
Why Biden will never let Silicon Valley fail
After a bank run on Silicon Valley Bank left the institution in ruins, the Federal Reserve announced it would make…
Will Credit Suisse trigger a global banking crisis?
When your largest single shareholder decides that enough is enough, that it is no longer prepared to throw good money…
What Biden gets wrong about women’s rights
If you’ve spent any time on Twitter over the past few years you will almost certainly have met the ‘woke…
