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The war on JK Rowling
The crusade to erase JK Rowling continues. The latest ruse of the Rowlingphobes is to scrub her name from her…
Is this the beginning of the end for Joe Biden?
Has Joe Biden suddenly outlived his usefulness? That is what many conspiracy-theory-inclined Americans are saying as the fuss mounts around…
Terror has become banal in Macron’s France
The mother of my daughter was at the Gare du Nord on Wednesday morning when a man ran amok with…
Could Britain avoid recession altogether?
The idea that we face a certain recession has been drummed into our heads for months. The Bank of England…
The Royal silence over Prince Harry can’t go on
Even Prince Harry’s critics must concede that his memoir Spare has been an enormous success. The book is the UK’s…
How the population scare predicted today’s climate hysteria
Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich’s recent appearance on CBS’s 60 Minutes reminds us what can happen when those with impressive academic…
Why the fight against Kevin McCarthy was necessary
Ugly. Chaotic. Disruptive. These and other pejoratives graced headlines last week as House Republicans wrestled with the question of who…
Remembering Paul Johnson, 1928–2023
Paul Johnson, the author, journalist and historian, has died at the age of 94. He wrote more than 40 books,…
Rishi Sunak has wasted his first 100 days as Prime Minister
Rishi Sunak has been Prime Minister for nearly 100 days – but what has Sunak done with his victory since…
Why I believe in God
Paul Johnson, the historian, journalist and author has died at the age of 94. He wrote a column for The…
George Santos makes politics worth paying attention to
As the Republicans’ on-again-off-again, will-they-won’t-they romance with Kevin McCarthy drags on, Cockburn has found refuge in a genuinely entertaining drama.…
Welfare reform is back on the agenda
This week Jonathan Ashworth set out Labour’s answer to the 5.2 million on out-of-work benefits – a figure which The…
Sturgeon’s gender bill poses a problem for the Tories
Ministers will come under increased pressure to block Nicola Sturgeon’s gender legislation with the publication of a new Policy Exchange paper…
Will Putin’s latest general escalate the war in Ukraine?
So, one granite-faced general has been replaced by another. The announcement that, after just three months in post, General Sergei…
Prince Harry and Andrew Tate are two sides of the same coin
On the face of things, there is little in common between Prince Harry and Andrew Tate. Yet look closer and…
Mayor Pete’s planes, trains and automobiles
Almost a year ago, the Federal Aviation Authority, under the helm of transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, announced that the aviation…
The conservative case against impeaching Joe Biden
“President Biden should be impeached by the incoming House Republican majority over his ongoing destruction of the southern border,” proclaimed National…
The generation war and why millennials are drifting leftward
The war between the generations is on, and the battle lines have been drawn. The baby boomers don’t like the…
Why Japan has been a post-Brexit ally to Britain
Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida is in London today to meet Rishi Sunak and sign an historic defence agreement which…
What you need to know about Biden’s documents caper
We are still in the early stages of discovering what the documents discovered in Joe Biden’s office at the University…
Cardinal Pell’s righteous fury at the Vatican’s theological direction
Cardinal Pell, a former head of Vatican finances, does not criticise Pope Francis directly in the piece he’s written for…
We will miss the non-doms when they’re gone
It will cover a generous pay rise for the nurses. It will bail out the NHS. It will put the…
The Catholic Church must free itself from this ‘toxic nightmare’
Shortly before he died on Tuesday, Cardinal George Pell wrote the following article for The Spectator in which he denounced the Vatican’s…
Did Biden also illegally hoard top-secret documents?
Remember the tale of Donald Trump and the ‘illegal hoarding’ of the top-secret documents? It was only last summer. On…
Losing Crimea would condemn Putin
As the fighting in Ukraine slows for the winter, three things stand out. The first is the most obvious: a small,…
