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Elon Musk’s AfD article has rocked German politics

29 December 2024 8:47 pm

Fresh from explosively disrupting the politics of the US and Britain, Elon Musk has now turned his attention to Germany.…

We should support Donald Trump’s attempt to buy Greenland

29 December 2024 8:32 pm

Over Christmas, president-elect Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social site that: ‘For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout…

Chocolat doesn’t need a trigger warning

29 December 2024 7:46 pm

Trigger warnings have become a totemic feature of our times, symptomatic of an age that is both hopelessly fragile and…

Does Starmer really think quangos will boost economic growth?

29 December 2024 6:10 pm

If you wanted some ideas for how to boost economic growth, would you ask the people who run businesses or…

Who’d want to survive a nuclear war?

29 December 2024 5:00 pm

The conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East keep raging, Vladimir Putin has lowered the threshold required for Moscow to…

Ireland has a serious case of ‘keffiyeh brain’

29 December 2024 5:00 pm

As Irish households glowed with lights and festive cheer ahead of Christmas day, the Taoiseach of Ireland made time for…

Can Ukraine survive the coming of Donald Trump?

29 December 2024 5:00 pm

On the eastern marches of Europe, after nearly three years of slugging it out with its larger, more powerful neighbour…

Most-read 2024: How did Wolf Hall escape the attentions of the BBC’s diversity commissars?

29 December 2024 4:00 pm

We’re closing 2024 by republishing our five most-read articles of the year. Here’s No. 3: James Delingpole’s article from November…

Putin’s Azerbaijan apology will have bruised his ego

29 December 2024 5:35 am

Has Vladimir Putin been forced to eat humble pie? Earlier today, the Russian president felt compelled to issue an apology…

The Zuck that stole Christmas

29 December 2024 4:24 am

I got Meta’s flagship Quest 3 headset last year. Not only did I love it and use it all the…

Brits have bleak outlook for 2025

29 December 2024 1:53 am

Dear oh dear. The Labour lot have not fared well in opinion polling this year and More in Common’s New…

Keir Starmer could still walk away from the Chagos deal

28 December 2024 11:43 pm

When Sir Keir Starmer announced in October that he had reached an agreement with Mauritius to transfer sovereignty of the…

The triumph of When Harry Met Sally

28 December 2024 9:01 pm

Look at any list of the ‘greatest ever romcoms’ and you’ll find When Harry Met Sally near the top of…

Taboos around incest are there for a reason

28 December 2024 7:30 pm

Since Tory MP Richard Holden called for first-cousin marriage to be banned in the UK earlier this month, few people have…

How the Black Death helped bring prosperity to Europe

28 December 2024 5:30 pm

As the media alarms us about an approaching ‘quad-demic’ of diseases this winter (Covid-19, Flu, RSV, Norovirus) it is a…

The gender war is slowly being won. But there’s no room for complacency

28 December 2024 5:00 pm

For ten years, gender identity ideology ploughed through western societies. It started quietly, a decade earlier, when a group of…

Who is Mikheil Kavelashvili?

28 December 2024 5:00 pm

‘They say the human body, given time, builds a resistance to pain. But after being tear-gassed six times in 21…

Most-read 2024: The unfashionable truth about the riots

28 December 2024 4:00 pm

We’re closing 2024 by republishing our five most-read articles of the year. Here’s No. 4: Douglas Murray’s article from August…

Farage plots his next move against Badenoch

28 December 2024 3:17 am

Nigel Farage has called on Kemi Badenoch to say sorry after the Conservative party leader accused him of inflating Reform…

Will taxpayers get their satellite bailout money back?

28 December 2024 2:43 am

When the British government spent £400 million on the satellite internet start-up OneWeb back in 2020, it was seen as…

Open prisons are the answer to our jail crisis

28 December 2024 2:13 am

Britain should move thousands of inmates into low-security open prisons, according to David Gauke, the former Tory justice secretary, who…

Russians are feeling the pinch as Putin’s war rumbles on

27 December 2024 9:18 pm

The Russian Orthodox Church or state calendar doesn’t recognise 25 December as a special day: their Christmas is 7 January…

Pulp have always been in the wrong place at the wrong time

27 December 2024 6:32 pm

Pulp, the legendary band fronted by Jarvis Cocker, have revealed that they’ve signed a new recording deal with equally legendary…

What was Badenoch hoping to achieve with her attack on Farage?

27 December 2024 6:04 pm

Kemi Badenoch believes she has caught out Nigel Farage with a bit of digital sleuthing. No sooner had Farage announced…

Britain’s diplomats need language classes

27 December 2024 5:00 pm

Britain is increasingly seen as a bit-part player. That’s down both to our post-Brexit identity crisis and being gradually overtaken…