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Peanut the squirrel shows Elon Musk is wrong about the mainstream media
Was it Peanut wot won it? One of the stranger and more incendiary aspects of the run-up to the recent…
Evangelicals have questions to answer over the John Smyth scandal
Justin Welby has said he considered resigning as Archbishop of Canterbury over the findings of the Makin Review into the…
Georgia is in an existential fight
Georgia is defined by its fight for survival. Lying in the shadow of Russia, Turkey and Iran, it has navigated…
What the First World War can teach us about the Third
It is our duty on Remembrance Sunday to honour the fallen. But to do justice to their sacrifice, we should…
The Royal Family must be careful with Kate
If this year’s Remembrance Sunday was unusually affecting, it was in large part due to the presence of both the…
Could Streeting’s smoking ban breach Brexit terms?
Labour ministers are very keen to be good Europeans. But could the cause of closer continental ties come at the…
Will Trump and Musk fall out over China?
Xi Jinping was quick with his congratulations, urging Donald Trump to ‘forge the right path for China and the United…
Why Trump made inroads in the Democrats’ urban strongholds
Cities never sleep, but neither does Donald J. Trump. That might explain why he managed to make inroads in the most…
The strange death of English literature
The interest in reading books and the appreciation of English literature is at a nadir. This week it was revealed…
Trump’s plan to make America safe again
Donald Trump’s critics like to paint his supporters as hardcore right-wingers. The truth is rather plainer: many of those who…
Elon Musk’s support for Donald Trump is a masterstroke
Elon Musk contributed huge sums of money. He campaigned relentlessly. And his social media network X provided a platform for…
Are the super rich really abandoning Britain?
With an urgency not always noted in plumbers, Charlie Mullins announced earlier this year that he was leaving the country,…
Inside the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre scandal
Roz Adams is not a public figure. She is not on social media. Yet this hardworking rape crisis support worker…
How Javier Milei found $18 billion
When Domingo Cavallo implemented at the start of December 2001 a restriction on cash withdrawals, he unwittingly unleashed a month…
Two forgotten men brought down the Berlin Wall
Here in Berlin, 35 years ago today, at a dull press conference in a dreary conference room a short walk…
William Hague, Donald Trump and the lesson of Eric Morecambe
Never has there been a politician to have fallen so foul of the Eric Morecambe mistake of playing all the…
The triumph of Mr and Mrs Badenoch
When we used to think of Tory marriages, we mostly thought of when they went horribly wrong – when the…
Trump’s victory makes Miliband’s climate plans look even sillier
If you think Donald Trump’s victory is hard enough on Kamala Harris’s campaign staff, spare a thought for the world’s…
Amsterdam shows the limits of liberalism
Whenever Jews are killed or beaten, on 7 October or last night in Amsterdam, well-meaning sorts solemnly intone that this…
Labour must learn from Kamala Harris’s transgender muddle
Donald Trump’s remarkable election victory has been rightly attributed to the long shadow of inflation combined with mass illegal immigration…
Why do so many private school students get extra time in exams?
Are independent schools gaming the system to give a disproportionate advantage to their pupils in exams? That’s one possible inference…
The Zoomer Zynergy that brought Trump back
Donald Trump has won the presidency for a second time — but the real surprise is the coalition of voters…
What Iain Duncan Smith gets right about freedom
One of Kemi Badenoch’s much-touted strengths is that she cares about British culture, society and our country’s values. She is…
Susie Wiles and the rise of the Floridian right
‘Susie Wiles is a great choice for President Trump’s chief of staff,’ said Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida…
Why did so many Christians vote for Trump?
It’s hard to know what to say about Donald Trump. Well, maybe it’s easy enough if you’re a fan, or…
