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Would scrapping juries help tackle the courts backlog?
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
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?
‘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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
‘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
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?
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?
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?
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?
At the start of the month, J.D. Vance delivered the address at the Heritage Foundation in Washington for the premiere…
