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A British Puy du Fou will upset all the right people
There is a new theme park coming to Britain – though without big dippers and ghost trains. It will be an…
Israel isn’t an ‘apartheid state’ – and I should know
Israel’s critics want you to acknowledge its uniqueness as the only country to enjoy the triple distinction of being a…
Can our universities be saved?
Universities are facing their biggest crisis in modern history, yet most are in denial and living in la-la land. Warning…
Rachel Reeves’ ironic artwork choice
To govern is to choose. So what have Labour’s ministers chosen to hung on their walls? Raiding the Government Art…
Elon Musk addresses AfD rally
With four weeks to go until Germany heads to the polls for its federal election, Elon Musk has just given…
How to catch a traitor
A quarter of a century after the first series of Big Brother, there is still some life in reality TV.…
The Traitors finale was a cruel spectacle
Blame Covid. That’s the origin of the BBC’s hit game-show, The Traitors. Workplaces are still deserted as people sit in…
Oxford has had enough of its Gaza protests
The ceasefire in Gaza may be holding, but student activists aren’t happy. Yesterday, ten students from the Oxford Action for…
Crying ‘fascism’ didn’t work before, and it won’t work now
‘Could we get a precise definition of fascism before all this kicks off today?’ So asked Merryn Somerset Webb, a senior columnist…
Why the French left are in uproar about the census
France’s 2025 census has ignited a predictable but exhausting row. The controversy centres on a seemingly innocuous question: ‘Where were…
Skiing is ghastly
Is anyone else getting a bit fed up of reading weepy newspaper stories about how the skiing industry is being…
Should Britain join an EU defence scheme?
The UK and Europe have had plenty of time to get to grips with the inevitable, that President Donald Trump…
Trump may turn on America’s new oligarchy
The word ‘oligarch’ returned to the media lexicon at Donald Trump’s inauguration this week when some of the world’s biggest…
‘Bashar was my friend’: the former Assad minister on why he didn’t flee Syria
Amr Salem mingles cheerfully with foreign investors and members of Syria’s interim government in a five-star hotel in Damascus, and…
Shoppers like me will pay the price for Waitrose’s free coffee perk
Freeloaders rejoice: Waitrose is bringing back free coffee for customers even if they don’t buy anything. This is a bad…
The great Nazi moral panic
We’re in the throes of a full-blown moral panic, but this time it’s Nazis instead of Dungeons & Dragons. Nazis…
When government officials are threatened, they deserve protection
When US officials and former officials face lethal dangers for the work they did in office, they deserve protection from…
How Ireland came crawling back to Trump
Before the US election in November, there was unanimity among the Irish political classes that Kamala Harris would comfortably win. This…
Against the death penalty, even for Axel Rudakubana
Should the Southport killer swing? Lee Anderson thinks so. The Reform MP posted an image of a noose on X,…
The fight against gender madness isn’t over
Too many conservatives are behaving as if Donald Trump’s inauguration has somehow done to wokery what garlic does to a…
Reform tops poll for first time
As the new Labour government continues to struggle with voters, support for Reform UK only seems to be growing. New…
Bishop compares disgraced Welby to God
The Church of England has received a rather lot of bad press, to put it mildly, after the Archbishop of…
Germany is running out of time to reform
Germany’s government after the election on 23 February will likely be led by pro-business Christian Democrat Friedrich Merz. His coalition…
Labour MP: is hair colour a ‘protected characteristic’?
As Donald Trump starts clamping down on diversity, equality and inclusion practices, it’s a shame that the same can’t be said on…
John Healey hails Rolls-Royce’s £9bn nuclear submarine deal
A £9 billion deal for nuclear submarine reactors was announced this morning between the Ministry of Defence and Rolls-Royce, the…
