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The Spectator: the magazine police don’t want you to read
Retired special constable Julian Foulkes is one of the latest targets of police officers who seem more eager to crack…
Starmer mustn’t let Trump kill the Digital Services Tax
Donald Trump has his eyes on Britain’s Digital Services Tax (DST). The tariff-touting US President insists that the tech firm…
Keir Starmer is wrong to think immigration is just a numbers game
Should the government set a cap on immigration? Do we need to pull out of the ECHR (European Convention on…
China has won the trade war with Trump
This weekend, the United States struck a deal with China that will see American tariffs on Beijing’s exports come back…
Starmer: migration control is a ‘core Labour value’
This morning, the Home Office is publishing its long-awaited white paper on legal migration. The Home Secretary has already been…
Will Trump’s war on Big Pharma work?
Cynics will scoff at Donald Trump’s latest initiative: issuing an executive order forcing pharmaceutical companies to lower the prices of…
Is Barbara Woodward right for MI6?
This time last year Britain’s top cyber spy warned that China represents an ‘epoch-defining challenge’. Anne Keast-Butler, the director of…
Putin and Zelensky just want to appease Trump
Ceasefire then talks, or talks then ceasefire? This has emerged as one of the pivotal issues in the diplomacy around…
Trump’s film tariffs will hurt, not help, Hollywood
Observers of the American film industry have been fretting about its prospects for almost as long as it has existed.…
Reintroducing elk can help restore England’s natural balance
After a 3,000 year hiatus, the mighty elk could soon return to England. Plans to reintroduce this towering creature were announced last…
US and China slash tariffs
The White House has announced a breakthrough in trade negotiations with China following two days of talks in Switzerland. Yesterday,…
Yvette Cooper: ‘We are closing care recruitment from abroad’
Under pressure from the success of Reform, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced new measures designed to reduce net migration.…
The police have lost it
When hyper-liberal identity politics went into overdrive in that year of madness, 2020, one of the greatest casualties in this…
Watch: grooming gang victim criticises Lucy Powell
The row over Lucy Powell’s outrageous comments are not going away anytime soon. It was on Any Questions last week…
Could the death penalty return?
The attack on a prison officer by Axel Rudakubana, the killer of the three girls at a dance class in…
Justice by skin color resurrects Jim Crow
In America, we are told justice is blind. Hennepin County wants her to peek. Last week, the Department of Justice…
Has war healed Ukraine’s great divide?
The phrase divide et impera has echoed through history, its power as relevant today as it was in ancient Rome.…
What is the Tate Modern for?
Twenty-five years ago today, the Tate Modern first opened its doors to the public. The main attraction: a nine metre-high…
The North Korean saboteurs funding Pyongyang’s nuclear programme
If you think that it is only Chinese infiltrators roaming across the West, including on our very shores, then think…
The assisted suicide bill has shown parliament at its worst
Kim Leadbeater has earned plenty of praise for her Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life), or assisted suicide, Bill. The…
The Trump administration is not pro-life. Why?
President Donald Trump is continuing his consistently inconsistent stance on abortion as his administration’s Justice Department has asked a federal…
The India-Pakistan ceasefire is a triumph for Trump
After more than four days of clashes since the early hours of Wednesday morning, India and Pakistan have agreed to…
Reform take over its first Conservative club
It seems that Reform are not content to just take the Tories’ seats. After coming for their MPs, councillors and…
Why the First Sea Lord stepping down is so shocking
The news that First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Ben Key, the head of the Royal Navy, has stepped down from his…
Why was Axel Rudakubana given a kettle?
Late last night, news broke of another attack by a high-profile prisoner at what should be one of our most…
