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Have a tenth of all gay people really had an exorcism?
According to research commissioned by Stonewall, clerics are conducting one LGBTQ+ exorcism for every two religious wedding ceremony they perform.…
Trump’s tariffs could help China
Donald Trump is, at least, a man of his word. Before he won the US election, Trump said that China…
The grandeur of Trump’s tariffs
The first thing revealed by the high and wide-ranging new tariffs President Trump announced on “Liberation Day” is just how…
Trump doesn’t understand how trade deficits work
After Donald Trump’s Liberation Day, the US now imposes far and away the highest tariffs of any developed country in…
Israel is playing a dangerous game in Syria
As Donald Trump’s tariffs dominate the headlines, in the Middle East, Israel is stepping up its campaign against Syria. Israeli…
Japan has been stunned by the Trump tariffs
Virtually the whole world is waking up to the reality, not threat now, of President Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs, but…
Scottish Tory MSP storms out ‘Trump-esque’ party
All is not well in the Scottish Tory party. Onetime leadership hopeful Jamie Greene MSP has dramatically quit the party…
This could be the largest US tax rise in half a century
Across the world, markets are plunging as they respond to the global tariffs Donald Trump unleashed from the White House…
Trump’s tariffs are just bizarre
They would restore manufacturing, force trade barriers to be taken down, and allow new industries to be created. There have…
Can Trump defend his tariff calculations?
When President Trump held up an easel in the White House Rose Garden illustrating each country’s ‘tariffs charged to the…
The growing controversy over Ireland’s neutrality
As the war of words between Donald Trump and the EU continues to escalate, European countries have become increasingly concerned…
Trump has bet the house on tariffs
‘My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day’, Donald Trump told the audience that had gathered in the Rose Garden for…
Trump’s tariffs are a real Brexit win
So, Britain has got its trade deal with the US – of sorts. Donald Trump has awarded Britain no exemption…
Trump prepares to take his tariff war global
In just a few hours, Donald Trump is set to take his tariff war global. At 9 p.m. UK time…
Why is no one talking about femcels?
Women’s expectations are off. They want men with advanced degrees, but on university campuses, women outnumber their male counterparts. They want…
Robert Jenrick is a real conservative
Robert Jenrick’s victory over the Sentencing Council — James Heale is correct to call it that — is, more importantly,…
I am deeply impressed by Ayoub Khan
Kemi Badenoch is doing all right at PMQs. The Tory leader is effective in the build-up but her finishing is…
Arron Banks battles Bristol Council for ‘Banksy’ slogan
It’s all kicking off in Bristol. On Friday, Reform UK announced that the multimillionaire Arron Banks was going to be…
What really scares people about Adolescence
Two books I read in my teens made me want to be a writer. One, Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch, appeared when…
Starmer and Badenoch played a childish blame game at PMQs
Keir Starmer had a special point to make at the very outset of Prime Minister’s Questions about the threat of…
Patrick Harvie’s top five lowlights
Patrick Harvie has today announced – and not a moment too soon – that he will step down as co-leader…
Labour and the Tories are both to blame for two-tier justice
If ever there were a week for me to commit a crime, this was it. The Sentencing Council – which…
Justin Welby has cemented his reputation – for having a tin ear
This is an excerpt from the latest episode of the Holy Smoke podcast with Damian Thompson, which you can find…
Kemi Badenoch must not drop net zero
Giorgia Meloni had it right. ‘There is nothing,’ the Italian prime minister said in 2022, ‘more right-wing than ecology. The…
Sadiq Khan’s Eid message is a disgrace
London’s Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan published a video online earlier this week to mark the Muslim festival of Eid. Released…
