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How the kebab mafia took over the French high street
Last week, the police in Britain launched a three-week operation codenamed ‘Machinize’. It began with nearly 300 raids on nail…
Schools should butt out of parent WhatsApp groups
As if schools didn’t already have their work cut out for them controlling the behaviour of their students, they’re now…
Why does Ireland want hairdressers to lecture you about climate change?
In their seemingly relentless drive to spend other people’s money on initiatives they don’t want and didn’t ask for, the…
Why I don’t worry about bad hygiene at Michelin restaurants
There would have been some long and pale faces recently at the excellent Sportsman pub in Saltwater after Canterbury City…
Hamas is exploiting the freedoms it wants to destroy
In any sane world, it would be dismissed as grotesque fantasy: Hamas – the Iranian-backed terror group responsible for the…
British Steel and the death of dim-witted globalisation
The dewy-eyed and rather dim-witted vision of globalisation is dead, I think for good. Labour is to effectively re-nationalise British…
The HMP Frankland attack should never have happened
How do you break the rule of law inside our jails? You could do worse than try to murder a…
Dozens dead after Russian strike on the city of Sumy
Two Russian missiles loaded with cluster bombs hit the city centre of Sumy this morning – on Palm Sunday, when…
Labour is destroying London’s nightlife
As a teenager back in the early 1960s, on Friday afternoon I would head down to Soho after school with…
Why are British lawyers acting for Hamas?
This week on Britain: The Decline Years, a firm of London solicitors has announced it is acting on behalf of Hamas…
Why Spain is cosying up to China
‘You’ll be cutting your own throat,’ US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned countries thinking of aligning with China. The remarks…
Security-consumed Prince Harry chooses war-torn Ukraine as latest backdrop
Prince Harry’s clandestine dash to Ukraine this week, trailing last year’s faux royal tours to Colombia and Nigeria, lays bare…
What’s wrong with eating horse?
There’s not much to do in Almaty, Kazakhstan. You can take a peek at the pretty wooden Orthodox cathedral, which…
Can Trump reach a nuclear deal with Iran?
On Saturday, Iranian and American diplomats met in Oman to discuss a nuclear deal. The talks were a clash of…
How could the HMP Frankland attack happen?
On Saturday, an awful assault took place at HMP Frankland. According to a statement from the Prison Officers’ Association (the…
Why do the French hate J.D. Vance so much?
At the start of the month, J.D. Vance delivered the address at the Heritage Foundation in Washington for the premiere…
North Korea will never give up its nuclear ambitions
Earlier this week, Kim Yo Jong proclaimed that North Korea has no intention of abandoning its nuclear weapons. ‘If the…
Transport Minister admits texting while driving double-decker bus
Just what is it with Labour and transport? Less than five months after Louise Haigh was forced to resign as…
The steel debate was an unseemly blame game
In the end, it was David Davis who said it best. Today’s emergency debate on how to save British Steel’s…
What is Xi Jinping planning?
Shanghai port is the busiest in the world. Activity there is closely monitored by financial analysts distrustful of official statistics…
Nationalising British Steel won’t fix a thing
There will be some stirring speeches about saving jobs. There will be lots of grand rhetoric about securing a great…
Trump tells Russia to ‘get moving’
With just under a week to go until the supposed Easter deadline, it appears that Donald Trump is no closer…
Greens grab victory in Lammy’s backyard
Westminster has a new tradition on Friday mornings: analysing council by-election results. These days, such contests rarely make for good…
Farage is leading Labour’s policy
For Reform’s supporters drawn from the right of the Conservative party, Nigel Farage’s call to nationalise British Steel never made…
First came the dire wolf – the wooly mammoth is next
With all the insane news this week surrounding President Trump’s tariff and trade drama, only one non-political story was significant…
