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Putin’s crackdown on Russia’s school children
In Russia, nowhere – and no one – is safe from the insidious reach of Putin’s war in Ukraine. In April 2022, during a school…
Cost-cutting in the kitchen with Budget Bytes
Have you heard about the latest food trend sweeping the nation? It’s called “whimpering over your grocery bill.” In the…
Humza Yousaf’s cabinet will do little to unite the SNP
Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf has risked widening the split within the SNP by effectively ousting Kate Forbes from the…
Why Germans are going wild for King Charles
King Charles III is going down a storm in Berlin. Hundreds of wellwishers have turned out to greet the King…
In defence of landlords
Whisper it millennials, but YIMBYism (Yes In My Back Yard) might be gathering momentum. Recent surveys have found more people agree than…
The Good Friday Agreement hasn’t solved Northern Ireland’s troubles
Northern Ireland is a few weeks out from a Davos-style gathering of the great and the good to mark 25…
Westminster School and the sad decline of boys’ schools
Westminster School, one of Britain’s oldest public schools, has announced it will go fully ‘co-ed’ from 2030. Having first admitted girls to…
The plan to house migrants on barges could soon come unstuck
Frank Sinatra once sang about the seductive properties of bright and shiny ephemera. ‘Her heart will sing, singa-linga, wearing baubles,…
Is the cult of victimhood turning violent?
This week I read the most extraordinary and chilling statement. It was issued by a fringe group called the Trans Resistance Network.…
Is Macron heading for his Margaret Thatcher moment?
There was a sense of foreboding in France at the start of this week. After the anarchy of last Thursday…
Will cruise ships solve the migrant housing crisis?
In an ironic twist, cruise ships are being hailed as the latest measure to help ‘stop the boats’. Most Fleet…
Who is torching Russia’s military recruitment centres?
The last twelve months or so in the post-Soviet sphere have been, among other things, the year of the Molotov…
Did Ernest Hemingway have CTE?
It was July 2, 1961. Ernest Hemingway was three weeks shy of his sixty-second birthday. He had been living comfortably…
Nikolai Patrushev, the man dripping poison into Putin’s ear
If I were to have to pick the figure in Vladimir Putin’s inner circle who scares me the most, it…
Rishi Sunak is pulling the rug out from under renters
Rishi Sunak is having a busy week. After announcing his crackdown on anti-social behaviour over the weekend, he set out…
Why I’m afraid of transphobia
J.K. Rowling’s Twitter feed “creates trans phobias,” writes Washington Post gender columnist Monica Hesse. Listening to Rowling, says Hesse, is…
Gary Lineker scores a victory over the taxman
The good news just keeps coming for Gary Lineker. The Match of the Day host has won his appeal against…
The Final Four that wasn’t supposed to happen
March Madness markets itself on the chaos, the unpredictability, and the Cinderella stories that make the NCAA basketball tournament one…
Taiwan’s voters face a big decision at the upcoming election
‘We must peacefully strive to rejuvenate the Chinese nation. This is an unshirkable duty for Chinese people on both sides…
The Guardian cancels itself, at last
The world’s wokest newspaper is at it again. Few voices were more vocal about race and reparations in that statue-toppling…
The tragedy of the Nashville school shooting
Three children and three staff have been shot dead at a school in the United States. The pupils who died…
The surprising cultural life of orcas
Male killer whales are all mamas’ boys. That’s not a revelation; their curious and intense social lives have been studied…
Can the Bank of England escape the blame for the inflation spike?
Who, or what, is responsible for the UK’s sky-high inflation rate? Not me, says the Bank of England’s governor. Andrew…
We should support Oxford’s crackdown on motorists
Now that Morse has cracked his final case, Oxford’s streets will be freed from the annual disruption caused by successive Jaguars…
It will take a lot for the dollar to die
The end of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency has been predicted so many times that it is tempting…
