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Putin’s desperate recruits are in a life-and-death scramble for kit
As Vladimir Putin seemingly dithers over the question of whether to send a further 500,000 of his citizens onto the…
Will Prince Harry and Meghan spoil the King’s Coronation?
As the furore caused by the publication of Spare may – or may not – be dying down, there are…
The think tank implicated by Biden’s classified documents
Joe Biden has become the Typhoid Mary of classified documents, spreading them as he goes. They keep turning up in…
It’s time to make Boris Johnson special envoy to Ukraine
The videos showed a typical summit: Vlodomyr Zelensky next to Ukraine’s flag and Boris Johnson next to the Union Flag.…
The Tories are tired of Boris’s ceaseless scandals
The political world splits in two whenever fresh evidence emerges that Boris Johnson does not think that life’s rules and…
LSE is right to cut ties with Stonewall
The London School of Economics (LSE) shocked their student union this week by informing them that the university is disaffiliating…
Will Christopher Luxon be New Zealand’s prime minister?
Following the resignation of Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s Labour government will select its new leader, and the country’s next prime…
The night train to Kyiv
After several months in the UK, the lady sleeping on the opposite bunk on the night train to Kyiv told…
The tragic decline of political rhetoric
After the first regular BBC TV broadcasts in 1930, it took the House of Commons 60 years to agree to…
Britain is not a basket case
It’s a dinner party in Brussels and I try to turn the conversation to the war in Ukraine. My host…
Putin is using fear to mobilise the masses
There was nothing subtle about it, as cranes lifted truck-based Pantsir-S1 air defence systems onto the roofs of the sprawling…
Ukraine is lucky to have Britain’s Challenger 2 tanks
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start. So wrote William Shakespeare in Henry V. He…
Jacinda Ardern was the queen of coercive kindness
Jacinda Ardern has resigned as Prime Minister of New Zealand. After a period of reflection over the summer break, she…
Germany is paralysed by pacifism
Germany’s marked reluctance to supply Leopard 2 tanks to help Ukraine repel the brutal Russian invasion has very little to…
Winston Churchill isn’t to blame for the Bengal famine
Sir Winston Churchill arguably saved civilisation as we know it. Had Britain capitulated to Germany after the fall of France,…
The insipid cult of saint Jacinda Ardern
Watching Jacinda Ardern’s departure speech, I reflected that even though I invented the word cry-bully – ‘a hideous hybrid of…
Sunak fined by police for a second time
In the past few minutes, Lancashire Police has confirmed that Rishi Sunak has received a fixed penalty notice for sitting…
Joe Biden should follow Jacinda Ardern out the door
I have a question for New Zealand’s outgoing prime minister Jacinda Ardern: can you take President Biden with you? Ardern…
Assisted dying is a slippery slope
What are your thoughts on assisted dying and assisted suicide? That’s the question asked by a Health and Social Care…
Davos man is back in charge of the global economy
Davos was back with a bang this week for the first full-scale winter conference since the pandemic. And yet, the…
Inflation is coming down – but when will we start to feel better off?
Despite this week’s inflation update, broad consensus remains that the headline rate is going to fall – significantly – this…
The Sunak seatbelt row is a pathetic ‘scandal’
Remember when Britain knew how to do a good political scandal? Secretaries of State sharing showgirls with Soviet attachés. A…
Has Starmer’s Davos gambit backfired?
Ah, the World Economic Forum: that annual jamboree for plutocratic banksters, avaricious industrialists and superannuated spongers to come together in…
Sorry, folks, Donald Trump isn’t going away
Almost all of us can recite the reasons why Donald Trump’s political career should be over. We hear them again…
How Marine Le Pen became the voice of France’s red wall
It sums ups the sorry state of the Socialist party in France that they can’t even elect a new leader.…
