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Is the NHS losing its appeal for Britain’s youth?

15 April 2025 4:30 pm

The NHS has survived many Conservative governments which, according to their opponents, were out to privatise it. But can it…

Iran is playing for time in the US nuclear talks

15 April 2025 4:00 pm

Over the weekend, the US and Iran held opening talks in Oman on Teheran’s nuclear programme. With the first round…

The sad death of ITV

15 April 2025 3:40 pm

The slow death of ITV makes for painful viewing. In its glory days of the 1980s and 1990s, the channel…

What the left calls ‘chaos,’ the rest of us call ‘winning’

15 April 2025 7:00 am

They never learn, the libs. Back in 2016, they provided hours of entertainment assuring themselves that Donald Trump would “never be…

Why are violent prisoners continuing to offend in jail?

15 April 2025 6:20 am

Even for our broken prison service it’s been a terrible few days. On Saturday the jihadi terrorist Hashem Abedi used…

Blue Origin’s all-female space flight was a step backwards for feminism

15 April 2025 3:47 am

Ray Bradbury, the great science fiction author, had this to say about space exploration: ‘Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything…

Is Kamala Harris turning into Meghan Markle?

15 April 2025 3:46 am

Somewhere atop the sun-drenched hills of coastal California, failures go to rebrand themselves, and rebrand their rebrands as “pivots.” There,…

German tanks always flop. The Leopard 2 is no different

15 April 2025 1:54 am

The much-vaunted German Leopard 2 tank – 18 of which were sent to Ukraine in 2023 after prolonged national debates…

‘Betgate’ is the latest blow to the Welsh Tories

15 April 2025 1:41 am

It is a tough life these days being a member of the Welsh Conservatives. The party lost every Westminster seat…

‘Stop Brexit Man’s court victory is a win for free speech

15 April 2025 1:23 am

From today, ‘Stop Brexit Man’ is free. This character, whose real name is Steve Bray, the long-standing bane of broadcasters,…

SNP backbencher blasts Nats over £20k pay rise

15 April 2025 1:05 am

The cost of living crisis continues to afflict Brits across the country – but it would appear that Scottish government…

Would scrapping juries help tackle the courts backlog?

15 April 2025 1:05 am

There’s a lot to digest in the new Crime and Justice Commission report, which came out today. Its proposals include, for…

Museums need a new approach to restitution 

15 April 2025 12:14 am

Three years ago, the Horniman Museum agreed to return 72 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. The museum’s chair hailed the decision…

Why is the army fixing Birmingham’s bin crisis?

14 April 2025 11:42 pm

‘Join the Army and see the world’ used to be the War Office’s boast. In those inter-war years it meant…

Good riddance to Cambridge’s May balls

14 April 2025 9:48 pm

I’m not usually one to hold back from damning the woke and progressive forces which lie within my alma mater,…

How Rory McIlroy banished his Masters demons

14 April 2025 9:48 pm

Eighteen years ago, half his lifetime away, Rory McIlroy made his debut as a professional golfer at the British Masters…

How to deal with the student mob

14 April 2025 9:34 pm

Last week’s violent anti-Semitic protest at Stanford is yet another sign of a pernicious climate on many campuses. The immediate…

Ex-Tory MP charged with gambling offences

14 April 2025 9:30 pm

The 2024 general election may feel like a lifetime ago, but the Gambling Commission has certainly not forgotten about it.…

Siddiq hit with arrest warrant by Bangladesh court

14 April 2025 9:05 pm

Back to the curious case of Labour MP Tulip Siddiq, who has now had an arrest warrant issued against her…

Why the silence over the MP banned from Hong Kong?

14 April 2025 8:28 pm

This time last week there was near universal outrage on the left – and even from some Conservative MPs –…

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…