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Santa Trump’s Christmas economy cheer
I hate to be the bearer of good news, but the US economy is doing quite well. A delayed government…
The ghosts of Andrew and Epstein will not stop haunting the royals
As the rest of the Royal Family prepare for the pageantry and pomp of their traditional Christmas, two ghosts have…
Iran has a ceaseless obsession with Israel
When Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in Florida at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in a few days’ time, near the top of…
Starmer caves to the farmers
The government has delivered an early Christmas present to farmers by modifying the new rules on inheritance tax. Or that’s…
What binds the celebrities featured in the Epstein files
The new naughty list just dropped, as the kids say these days. The pre-Christmas release of the Epstein files, or…
Where is the pop culture rage at Keir Starmer?
Keir Starmer is unpopular. You may have noticed this from his record-breakingly low approval ratings. The weekend just gone brought…
An obituary for Bazball
Any account of the third test match, in Adelaide, inevitably becomes an obituary notice on England’s abortive attempt to wrestle…
A Green Christmas would be more awful than you could imagine
It is remarkable how a country can adjust to diminished expectations. Think of Japan post-Fukushima, or even post-war Britain under…
Stephen Flynn: Reform can learn from the SNP
Stephen Flynn’s Westminster group may consist of only nine MPs, but the SNP has still managed to make its mark…
Black Christmas and the battle for Hong Kong
The Peak is where the smart set in Hong Kong has always lived. It’s an area of relative peace and…
Country drivers are the real menace this Christmas
Driving home for Christmas? If you live in London you might well be a menace, according to research published by insurer…
In defence of nepo babies
What do Mary Shelley, John Stuart Mill and Tim Berners-Lee have in common? They’re all nepo babies, of course: weasels…
Is Labour’s ‘war on farmers’ cranking up a gear?
After a difficult year for No. 10, what better way to end it than by unveiling a nice package of…
What my cod’s roe saga reveals about British decline
If you want a miniature parable of British decline – a sort of Aesop’s fable for the age of the…
Nicki Minaj 2028?
Fresh off her appearance at the United Nations, where she spoke eloquently about the persecution of Christians in Nigeria, pop…
David Walliams’s children’s books were pure slop
Harper Collins announced last week that it would no longer be publishing any children’s books by their one-time cash cow…
The economic purge of the young white male
I can remember when I first realized that something strange was happening to white men in Hollywood. It was around…
How Britain can take on the Islamist threat
I am writing this article from abroad because I do not currently feel safe in Britain, the country of my…
Would promising to rejoin the EU save Labour?
Could Labour, under a new leader, go into the next election with a manifesto promising to start negotiations to rejoin…
How a late lunch can save Britain
Britain doesn’t have a productivity problem. We have a productivity mystery. The financial crisis was 17 years ago but still…
Bondi Beach and Australia’s failed multiculturalism
I knew two of the people murdered at Bondi Beach. That beach has always felt like Australia distilled: sun-bleached, open,…
It’s hard to take the Palestine Action hunger strikers seriously
The phrase ‘the silly led by the sinister’ was originally used by the late, singularly great Christopher Hitchens to describe…
What they don’t tell you about Christmas in New Zealand
‘I still think New Zealand the most beautiful country I have ever seen,’ Agatha Christie marvelled in 1922. Evidently she’s…
Death at Christmas
That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those…
Quebec is trying to ban Jesus from Christmas
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – but not, sadly, in Quebec. Or at least that’s what the provincial…
