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This study shatters the trans myth about mental health
‘Better a live daughter than a dead son.’ For years, this brutal phrase was delivered to the parents of gender-confused…
We’re stuck at the worst possible oil price
A ceasefire has been agreed with Iran. The Straits of Hormuz will reopen. And the oil market will get back…
The winners and losers of the Iran ceasefire deal
The abrupt announcement of a two-week ceasefire in the war between the US, Israel and Iran resolves none of the…
There’s no denying the Scottish Greens’ ascendance
A cardinal error in politics is hating your opponents so much you cannot understand them. If you know no one…
Trump’s fantasy of victory
Among the many gifts the Watergate scandal gave us was Nixon’s White House press secretary declaring: “This is the operative…
Is Bitcoin a British invention?
Sir Issac Newton, Alexander Flemming and James Watt may all have to move aside to make way for another name…
The Iran deal has shown Britain’s irrelevance
With Donald Trump’s threat that ‘a whole civilization will die… never to be brought back again’ looming on Tuesday night,…
This ceasefire hasn’t ended the war
As Donald Trump’s 8 p.m. deadline crept closer by the minute, accompanied by increasingly furious posts from the president online,…
Why are our universities dumbing down?
It’s strange and ironic that higher education establishments in Britain, institutions which ostensibly exist to broaden minds and deepen thought,…
Why Trump stepped back from the brink
At 5 p.m. Washington time, speculation was rife that a deal between the United States and Iran was in the…
Is it any wonder people don’t send letters?
Was there some failure of communication, do you think, when the Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky bought Royal Mail (with the…
What will the Iran ceasefire cost Trump?
Might Donald Trump travel to Tehran this spring to open an American embassy and declare that he’s fallen in love with the new…
Why Trump is tempting 25th Amendment talk
During his remarks in Budapest, Vice President J.D. Vance, who is trying prop up Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as he runs for reelection, appeared to think the unthinkable.…
Why Iran thinks it’s winning
President Trump has what he so dearly craves; the attention of the global media and the world hanging on his…
Trump has lost control of his war
US President Trump has what he so dearly craves – the attention of the global media and the world hanging…
Reform is right to put its foot down over reparations
Liberals don’t realise it yet, and perhaps they never will, but Reform has just done them a massive favour. Nigel…
Trump gets Chamberlain wrong
Like US wartime presidents before him, Donald Trump made a priority of, and has succeeded, in attaining air superiority over…
The dramatic downfall of an Australian war hero
Australia’s most decorated war hero, Ben Roberts-Smith VC, is a mountain of a man. But today, he has been cut down…
Rory Stewart isn’t taking Islam seriously
It’s not often noted that the taboo on discussing racial issues goes both ways. While critics of immigration must often…
Kanye West should be banned from the UK
Geert Wilders was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2009. A sitting Dutch MP and leader of the Party…
This is why shoplifting is rife in Britain
Walker Smith, 54, who has worked as a store assistant at Waitrose for the past 17 years, has been fired…
The surprising conservativism of the old Doctor Who
Before the 1980s, our broadcasters had a terrible habit of throwing their own recordings away to save storage space. Videotapes…
The Green party’s transport plan is pure madness
As you may have noticed, we’ve seen rather more wokery than greenery from the Green party since Zack Polanski took…
Trump’s threat to destroy Iran is detailed and credible
Monday’s White House press conference came in two distinct parts. The first was an extraordinary tale of heroism in the…
Why junior doctors are back on strike
In the emergency department, and on my wards, the strikes sit lightly. My specialty of internal medicine never closes; Easter…
