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Why killer drivers escape lifetime bans
Tracy Bibby had already been banned from driving in 2006 and 2016. In 2019, while her second driving ban was…
Reform has to distance itself from extremists
According to the National – a worrying phrase, I admit, given the Scottish newspaper’s obsessive adulation of anyone pro-Scottish independence and…
Why Nigel Farage should go big on nature
Dear Nigel Farage, We haven’t met, but I have a great idea for you. I head the Zoological Society of London.…
Revealed: Mental health claims see Foreign Office absences soar
Back to the UK’s bloated civil service. As if the government didn’t have enough on its plate trying to slash…
Will Zelensky’s dash to see Trump pay off?
Volodymyr Zelensky is in Washington today to debrief with Donald Trump following the US President’s meeting with Vladimir Putin in…
Is Italy really doing better than Britain?
Dante’s Beach, Ravenna News that Italians now enjoy a higher standard of living than the British made me think: my…
Why women trust Farage more than Starmer
Labour’s attack dogs have Nigel Farage firmly in their sights. A vote for Reform will leave women and girls at…
Sally Rooney to use BBC royalties to support Palestine Action
The UK government’s proscription of campaign group Palestine Action saw over more than 500 protestors arrested this month – the…
Serbia is descending into violence
Belgrade There are two kinds of Balkan crises: the ones that actually happen, and the ones that feel inevitable until…
BBC admits Huw Edwards hasn’t returned six-figure sum
Now the beleaguered BBC is facing fury from its own staff – after it emerged that Huw Edwards has not…
How long before Rachel Reeves introduces a ‘FTSE tax’?
As figures out today show the salaries at the top of business soaring, there are plenty of good reasons for…
Why Putin wants Donetsk
Will Ukraine’s fate depend on Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, Druzhkivka and Kostiantynivka? These may not be household names, but they are…
Terence Stamp bent the Swinging Sixties to his will
There are two famous images of the late Terence Stamp, one taken from one of his films, the other from…
Labour will regret its attack on nature
Environmentalists always feared that Brexit would lead to a weakening of environmental protections, but who would have guessed that it…
America’s most radical mayor?
American politics is often reactionary. Barack Obama rode the dip of the 2007-2008 financial crash, but after eight years of…
How to solve Britain’s shoplifting epidemic
Fifteen years ago, at the tail end of Blairism, I was running things for the Home Office in Southwest England.…
Has France got what it takes to stand up to the Islamists?
In the early 1990s, an underground organisation was launched called the Barbie Liberation Movement (BLM). Its mission statement was a…
Hamas is using Israel’s protests as a weapon of war
Israel is caught in a tragic paradox: the finest qualities that define its national character – its compassion, solidarity, and…
Starmer’s coalition of the willing has been saved from itself
It is commonplace to accuse politicians of being out of touch. There is often some truth in the charge, and…
The uncomfortable history of Narva
The Alaska talks between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin might have happened on American territory, but the symbolism of their…
God save the great British pudding!
There are certain names of puddings that, if whispered to an Englishman of a certain age, will bring back near-Proustian…
Xi’s purge is expanding
Of all those who have been purged by President Xi Jinping, disappearing into the communist party’s vast network of black…
How Ireland became a haven for Hezbollah’s cocaine
In the end, it was a combination of the Irish weather, European maritime intelligence and engine trouble that scuppered a…
Oxford is being consumed by bureaucracy
The governance of Oxford University is plumbing new depths – and this doesn’t mean dons or deans, but the university’s…
Was the Treaty of Versailles really to blame for the rise of the Nazis?
The 1919 Versailles peace conference that followed the end of the first world war became the most famous, or notorious,…
