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Is Reform really becoming the Tory party 2.0?
Nadhim Zahawi, the one-time Tory chancellor and former vaccines minister, has joined Reform UK. But is that a good thing?…
Why London feels lawless
Mark Rowley, the head of the Metropolitan Police, has been discussing London’s crime rates. Rowley it seems, is eager to…
Why can’t a Jewish MP visit his local school?
Ruth Wisse defines anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism as ‘the organisation of politics against the Jews’, and in Britain it is striking just…
Where are the Western feminists standing up for Iran’s women?
As Iranians revolt against the brutal Islamic theocracy that has throttled their civilisation since 1979, striking images of young Persian…
How much will net zero cost?
In the race to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, many Whitehall departments, Westminster thinktanks and independent bodies have produced…
Lords hit back at Chagos deal – again
When David Lammy announced that the Chagos Islands were to be handed over to Mauritius, it was greeted as the…
Trump is playing geopolitical Monopoly with Greenland
Donald Trump is playing hemispheric monopoly. Depending on what day of the week it is, the President’s focus alternates between…
The trouble with Jerome Powell
Lost in the hysterical media bleating about a new criminal investigation into Jerome Powell is any attempt to report fairly…
The conservative case for an under-16 social media ban
Nearly 20 years ago, encouraged by the Labour peer Lord Adonis, I joined the revolution to create academy schools in…
Starmer’s team could ban Musk’s X
During Covid, it used to be asked what Boris Johnson the journalist would make of Boris Johnson the Prime Minister.…
Nadhim Zahawi’s defection is bad news for Reform
Nadhim Zahawi has become the most senior Conservative to defect to Reform. Nigel Farage looked delighted as he welcomed the…
Why Nadhim Zahawi joined Reform
How many Tories is too many? That’s the question that Westminster is asking after the unveiling of Reform’s latest defector.…
A royal reunion is unlikely if Meghan returns to Britain
The name ‘Meghan’ bears a certain resemblance to ‘Me Again’. If the recent newspaper reports are to be believed, ‘Me…
The flaw in Labour’s Brexit delusion
The lexicon of Brexit has a new entry: the ‘Farage clause’. As part of Labour’s ‘reset’ talks with Brussels, EU negotiators…
Iran’s uprising and the moral bewilderment of Western youth
I’m starting to feel sorry for progressives who are schtum about the revolution in Iran. My contempt for them is…
Met chief insists London is getting safer
Ello, ‘ello, ‘ello, what’s all this then? It is a new year but the same old lines from Sir Mark…
Hollywood is all but silent on Iran
It was the Golden Globes last night in Tinseltown and as per usual Hollywood’s finest strutted and peacocked on the…
Why are teachers so obsessed with the ‘far right’?
Much has been written in recent years, and even recent days, about the threat posed to the mental wellbeing of…
When will Iran finally be free?
An Iranian friend of mine once told me that ever since fleeing his homeland in the early days of Iran’s…
How far can bravado take the US?
Operation Absolute Resolve, Donald Trump’s rendition of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, was a brilliantly executed coup. The audacious raid did…
Inside the Democrats’ AI skepticism
Bernie Sanders has been rolling out political hot takes for more than half a century, and in recent years his…
Could the Donroe Doctrine turn Marco Rubio into the president-in-waiting?
It required an incredible amount of sophistication to achieve the desired result in Caracas: a dictator detained and transported alive.…
A buyer’s guide to Greenland
I recently wrote a book countenancing the idea that the United States could buy Greenland, and I have received some…
Iran’s uprising and the moral bewilderment of Western youth
I’m starting to feel sorry for progressives who are schtum about the revolution in Iran. My contempt for them is…
Who cares if Dylan Thomas was a plagiarist?
‘Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.’ This quote from TS Eliot has become a critical commonplace. And if we’re to take it as…
