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The man who hunted the Kinahans
Last night, an Irish government jet landed just outside Dublin. On board was Daniel Kinahan, alleged leader of one of…
Nigel Farage: Restore must kick out its racists
Nigel Farage today doubled down on his pledge not to strike a deal with Restore unless Rupert Lowe rids his…
Why can’t Britain deport all our foreign prisoners?
The great civic crisis of our times is state capacity. When policies favoured by voters are repeatedly met with a…
The genius of Jason Arday
Halfway through watching the hit Netflix series The Tinder Swindler, I realised I was cheering on the swindler Simon Leviev, who…
A Burnham wealth tax looks inevitable
In the run-up to his elevation to prime minister, it would be safe to say that Andy Burnham did not…
Is Andy Burnham brave enough to stand up to China?
Since becoming prime minister just three weeks ago, Andy Burnham has focused on two key words: ‘hope’ and ‘justice’. And…
Jason Arday and the Dukes and Dauphins of DEI
The Music Man, The Sting, Catch Me If You Can: movies and theater have a rich tradition of stories about imposters who…
We should ban foreigners from council houses
State House occupies a prized hilltop location in central Freetown. As befits the official home of the President and First…
There’s one rip-off Andy Burnham will never crack down on
Trying to pay my taxes via the HMRC website the other week, my bank thought it had sniffed a rat. “Could…
Should the police investigate Jason Arday?
The police role in the Jason Arday case so far deserves rather more scrutiny than it has received. Certainly, the…
Benjamin Netanyahu isn’t blocking peace in Gaza
As is so often the case when it comes to coverage of Israel and the Middle East, much of the…
Americans deserve burrito abundance
It’s a tough time to be in the business of burrito-making. The price of beef is on the rise. A…
Is blaring out music on the bus really ‘quintessentially social’?
British commuters seeking a thrill could do worse than asking fellow passengers whether they would mind turning their terrible music…
Has the hounding of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor gone too far?
God, the avenging Furies had nothing on the Jeffrey Epstein industry when it comes to the pursuit of its quarry.…
Sociology is about much more than fools like Jason Arday
One of the unfortunate consequences of the Jason Arday debacle is that it has thrown the entire discipline of sociology…
How Paris made the Mosleys
Parisians have suffered through four scorching heatwaves this summer, but none compares to the deadly canicule of early August 2003 when temperatures…
Zack Polanski reveals his instant soup politics
Zack Polanski enjoyed a cosy conversation with Iain Dale at the Edinburgh festival yesterday. They sounded and acted like old…
How to fix Britain’s broken libel laws
In 1895, Winston Churchill, as a young officer cadet at Sandhurst aged 21, was falsely accused of having committed an…
Labour is the real party of the privileged elite
There’s nothing the ruling Labour political class likes more than propagating the Oxbridge class myth that the Conservative party is…
Whatever happened to Mickey, Liverpool’s smoking chimpanzee?
We haven’t lived. Yes, we’ve enjoyed the finest entertainment that Liverpool has to offer in our lifetimes – the Beatles,…
Meeting Abdul El-Sayed at the Detroit farmers market
The farmers market in Detroit is an unlikely crucible. Certainly Abdul El-Sayed, the freshly (and narrowly) minted Democratic Senate candidate…
Inside Pete Hegseth’s church
The second-floor meeting room on Pennsylvania Avenue is unassuming, but it’s filling up fast when I walk in on Sunday…
It’s open season on Nicola Sturgeon for the SNP
There have been mutterings in SNP ranks about Nicola Sturgeon’s failure to notice her former husband, Peter Murrell’s, embezzlement of…
The people of Thetford deserve empathy
Over the last four nights, unrest has broken out in the small Norfolk town of Thetford over the housing of…
Will the NHS get serious about prescribing weight loss drugs?
‘The weight is over,’ read an advert on the side of a bus outside my hospital this morning. The first…
