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How the kebab mafia took over the French high street

14 April 2025 7:04 pm

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

14 April 2025 6:39 pm

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?

14 April 2025 4:00 pm

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

14 April 2025 4:00 pm

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

14 April 2025 3:30 pm

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

14 April 2025 1:14 am

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

14 April 2025 12:33 am

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

13 April 2025 11:21 pm

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

13 April 2025 8:55 pm

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?

13 April 2025 8:36 pm

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

13 April 2025 7:54 pm

‘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

13 April 2025 7:00 pm

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?

13 April 2025 5:53 pm

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?

13 April 2025 5:23 pm

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?

13 April 2025 5:03 pm

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?

13 April 2025 4:00 pm

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

13 April 2025 4:00 pm

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

13 April 2025 4:42 am

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

13 April 2025 12:40 am

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?

13 April 2025 12:18 am

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

12 April 2025 10:35 pm

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’

12 April 2025 8:21 pm

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

12 April 2025 8:14 pm

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

12 April 2025 7:49 pm

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

12 April 2025 7:00 pm

With all the insane news this week surrounding President Trump’s tariff and trade drama, only one non-political story was significant…