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Prince Andrew’s Easter appearance was a royal blunder
Every Christmas, Easter and other public gathering, the Royal Family are faced with an unfortunate choice: what to do about…
Have I Got News for You is a sad, unfunny spectacle
Like most people, I haven’t tuned in to Have I Got News For You for years. But when I heard…
Why are the police boasting about how useless they are?
If you’ve been in the City of London recently, you’ll likely have seen one of the blue plaques that have…
King Charles has much to learn from the Queen’s Christianity
Easter Monday would have been Queen Elizabeth II’s 99th birthday, a milestone that invites reflection on her extraordinary reign and…
Pete Hegseth’s fight is about more than mere staff personalities
The Washington firing squad is out for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. His department has seen the dramatic departure of three…
The Trump administration attempts to correct the record on Covid
Last Friday the White House launched, without warning (which is how they like to do things), what is essentially a truth…
Does Farage have a path to No. 10?
My contention was always that Reform UK would struggle to reach 30 per cent in the polls and, while the…
Freedom is still the Revolutionary War’s legacy
When the first shot rang out at dawn on Lexington Green, a decade of frustration and growing alienation between the…
Trump takes a hammer to the universities
President Trump has already dropped the first hammer on Harvard. He’s ready to drop the whole tool chest on a…
There was Easter but no truce on Ukraine’s frontline
Kramatorsk, Donetsk region In a wooden Greek-Catholic church on the frontline of a warzone, encircled by red tulips and military…
How Pope Francis kept the faith
As timing goes, a pope simply can’t do better than to die just after Easter Sunday. The moral of the…
The Francis effect
Pope Francis was a man of remarkable complexity who cultivated an image of utmost simplicity. He began the moment he…
World leaders pay tribute to Pope Francis
Pope Francis has died aged 88. At 7.35 a.m., the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had ‘returned to the house…
Francis and the Vatican reckoning
Modern popes, for better or for worse, tend to be defined in soundbites. John Paul II’s clarion call of ‘Be…
Let the prisoners cook
After Hashem Abedi allegedly attacked three prison officers with hot cooking oil at HMP Frankland last weekend, there has been…
Keir Starmer’s Easter message wasn’t offensive
Fun though it is to bash Keir Starmer for everything he says or does, there’s surely a point at which…
BBC Bitesize’s communism blindspot
A great exhortation of our times is the need to ‘be kind’. It manifests itself among those who cry ‘refugees…
The plight of Bethlehem
War seldom has true victors – and for Bethlehem, where tourism once accounted for approximately 70 per cent of income,…
It’s not too late to save Oxford Street
Oxford Street – the busiest shopping street in Europe, in a nation once known as an island of shopkeepers –…
The trans-rights movement’s howl of male rage
They defaced the statue of Millicent Fawcett. That’s all you need to know about yesterday’s march for ‘trans rights’. Someone…
Labour MPs rage against trans ruling fall-out
Happy Easter Sunday to LGBT+ Labour. Today’s Mail on Sunday splashes on leaked messages from a WhatsApp chat of MPs…
Ed Miliband is talking nonsense about energy prices – again
I guess I must be one of Ed Miliband’s ‘siren voices’. Writing in the Observer today, the Energy and Climate…
Douglas Murray has been blacklisted in Berlin
As a British writer living in Berlin, I recently attempted something that now passes for quietly provocative: I tried to…
The IMF is right: we should be retiring at 70
The IMF is onto something – a sentence I’ve never uttered before. But that august institution says today’s 70-year-olds not…
The US-Iran nuclear talks are doomed to fail
US and Iranian diplomats are meeting in Rome this weekend for further talks on Iran’s nuclear programme, in what looks…
