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How Live Aid ruined pop music
Today is the fortieth anniversary of Live Aid, the epic televised pop concert – or ‘global jukebox’ – designed to raise…
The mask slips at Socialism 2025
From college campuses to the media, socialism is increasingly getting repackaged as a solution to every problem: homelessness, housing, policing…
The Ten Commandments of Texas
Blessed greetings From Texas, where Governor Greg Abbott recently signed a bill that will require public schools to display the…
Why I’ve changed my mind about climate change
Here we go again. Another blistering heatwave. Just a few days after the last one. Like many, and probably like a…
Thatcher hit job piece backfires
It is a century this year since the Iron Lady’s birth – and conservatives are determined to mark it in…
Norman Tebbit, forgiveness and my father, the IRA bomber
Norman Tebbit, who died this week at the age of 94, embodied a sterner Britain. His political career was remarkable…
Twenty years of failing to solve the migrant crisis
The front desk call out a name, ‘Mohammed Ahmed!’ Four men – or boys as they claimed to be –…
English schools are failing disadvantaged children
Education should be the great equaliser – the ladder with which all children, regardless of circumstances of birth, can improve…
Why the Lords doesn’t have to accept the Assisted Dying Bill
In an effort to hasten the Assisted Dying/Suicide Bill on to the statute books, Esther Rantzen and Lord Falconer have…
ITV’s Transaction is painfully unfunny
The plot of Transaction, a six-part comedy currently showing on ITV2, is simple. A supermarket accused of transphobia hires a…
Wimbledon’s Royal Box has become naff
As Wimbledon reaches its climax this weekend, those of us neither interested in tennis, nor in taking a fortnight off…
France doesn’t need Boomers dreaming of political comebacks
If France didn’t have enough to worry about right now with its soaring rates of debt, crime and immigration, now…
How to save Conservatism
It is impossible to deny the sense of gloom and pessimism in Britain today. The economy is stagnant, and our…
Why Britain should celebrate the Battle of the Boyne
British schoolchildren spend more time learning about the American civil rights movement than the English Civil War. An entire generation…
The real scandal of Mamdani’s college application
While the fact that Zohran Mamdani had identified as black on his Columbia University application stole the headlines, the hack…
Jewish doctors are sick of the BMA
Around sixty Jewish doctors, including senior consultants and general practitioners, have left or are planning to leave the British Medical…
How Macron triumphed over Starmer
‘Small boats’ are the big talking point from this week’s Franco-British summit. The consensus is that there are slim pickings…
The Washington Post can’t cancel John McEnroe
From his lofty BBC and ESPN perches at Wimbledon, John McEnroe is agitating people… again. In particular, he has irked…
Rupert Lowe cleared by standards watchdog
Well, well, well. It transpires that Independent MP Rupert Lowe – formerly of Reform UK – has now been cleared…
Britain’s mental health crisis isn’t what you think
Britain has a widespread and collective mental health problem – but it’s not what you might think. Specifically, it’s that…
The hypocrisy of those attacking Moygashel’s migrant bonfire
The marching season – when a section of Northern Ireland’s unionist community take to the streets to commemorate the triumph…
We’ll all pay for Ed Miliband’s zonal pricing folly
Philosophers have debated the concept of ‘fairness’ for centuries. Intellectual heavyweights like Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, and Aristotle have all…
Who’s telling the truth: Unite or Rayner?
Some big news in Labour land today. Angela Rayner, the party’s deputy leader, has had her membership of Unite suspended…
Rachel Reeves’s GDP hypocrisy
Well, well, well. Today the Office for National Statistics released its estimate for May’s GDP. It showed a contraction of…
Is Britain an ally or an enemy of Israel?
Even as the British parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) published its stark warning yesterday that the Islamic Republic of…
