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Most-read 2024: How did Wolf Hall escape the attentions of the BBC’s diversity commissars?
We’re closing 2024 by republishing our five most-read articles of the year. Here’s No. 3: James Delingpole’s article from November…
Putin’s Azerbaijan apology will have bruised his ego
Has Vladimir Putin been forced to eat humble pie? Earlier today, the Russian president felt compelled to issue an apology…
The Zuck that stole Christmas
I got Meta’s flagship Quest 3 headset last year. Not only did I love it and use it all the…
Brits have bleak outlook for 2025
Dear oh dear. The Labour lot have not fared well in opinion polling this year and More in Common’s New…
Keir Starmer could still walk away from the Chagos deal
When Sir Keir Starmer announced in October that he had reached an agreement with Mauritius to transfer sovereignty of the…
The triumph of When Harry Met Sally
Look at any list of the ‘greatest ever romcoms’ and you’ll find When Harry Met Sally near the top of…
Taboos around incest are there for a reason
Since Tory MP Richard Holden called for first-cousin marriage to be banned in the UK earlier this month, few people have…
How the Black Death helped bring prosperity to Europe
As the media alarms us about an approaching ‘quad-demic’ of diseases this winter (Covid-19, Flu, RSV, Norovirus) it is a…
The gender war is slowly being won. But there’s no room for complacency
For ten years, gender identity ideology ploughed through western societies. It started quietly, a decade earlier, when a group of…
Who is Mikheil Kavelashvili?
‘They say the human body, given time, builds a resistance to pain. But after being tear-gassed six times in 21…
Most-read 2024: The unfashionable truth about the riots
We’re closing 2024 by republishing our five most-read articles of the year. Here’s No. 4: Douglas Murray’s article from August…
Farage plots his next move against Badenoch
Nigel Farage has called on Kemi Badenoch to say sorry after the Conservative party leader accused him of inflating Reform…
Will taxpayers get their satellite bailout money back?
When the British government spent £400 million on the satellite internet start-up OneWeb back in 2020, it was seen as…
Open prisons are the answer to our jail crisis
Britain should move thousands of inmates into low-security open prisons, according to David Gauke, the former Tory justice secretary, who…
Russians are feeling the pinch as Putin’s war rumbles on
The Russian Orthodox Church or state calendar doesn’t recognise 25 December as a special day: their Christmas is 7 January…
Pulp have always been in the wrong place at the wrong time
Pulp, the legendary band fronted by Jarvis Cocker, have revealed that they’ve signed a new recording deal with equally legendary…
What was Badenoch hoping to achieve with her attack on Farage?
Kemi Badenoch believes she has caught out Nigel Farage with a bit of digital sleuthing. No sooner had Farage announced…
Britain’s diplomats need language classes
Britain is increasingly seen as a bit-part player. That’s down both to our post-Brexit identity crisis and being gradually overtaken…
The problem with rugby union
Rugby union has always attracted a certain type, the ‘play hard, party hard’ sort. I remember a former teammate –…
How can we stop football academy rejects ending up in prison?
‘The first team at Wormwood Scrubs is said to be better than QPR’s’. That line from Toby Young’s article from…
My part in Twitter’s downfall
Two years ago, I was the victim of a peculiarly postmodern version of left-wing cancel culture. After joking on Twitter…
Most-read 2024: Can Meghan and Harry stoop any lower?
We’re closing 2024 by republishing our five most-read articles of the year. Here’s No. 5: Julie Burchill’s article from December…
Gangster released early by Labour mocks Sir Keir in Christmas song
Not even the Christmas season can keep attention off Labour’s controversial policies for long. The furore around this year’s early…
Kemi accuses Farage of fiddling membership figures
It wouldn’t be Christmas without a family feud. Reform has spent this Boxing Day trumpeting its membership figures, which, it…
Trump was elected to change the status quo
It turns out that the campaign was the easy part. For Donald Trump, winning the election was just securing the…
