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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…
How will Trump take on the administrative state?
By the time you read this, the first raft or two of Donald Trump’s executive orders will have been promulgated.…
The real housewives of the anti-Trump resistance
It wasn’t easy being a Trump administration staffer in January 2021 as the flock of political appointees were left with…
Panama celebrates a quarter-century’s ownership of its greatest asset
New Year’s marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the collective freakout known as Y2K, when overwrought tech aficionados joined forces with…
Trump gives the establishment some respite at Davos
We’ve heard more from the 47th President of the United States this week than we heard from his predecessor over…
How game developers could kill the industry
In the golden age of video games, developers and players built relationships through a shared celebration of creativity. Many developers…
What’s the real reason Trump pardoned Ross Ulbrich?
US president Donald Trump has pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the cybercriminal mastermind who founded Silk Road and pioneered the drug trade’s…
Did Axel Rudakubana deserve a harsher sentence?
The murder of three young girls in Southport last July by Axel Rudakubana was an act of extreme savagery and…
Two big problems with the Sainsbury’s job cuts
You won’t be able to get a cup of coffee. Nor will you be able to pick up something from…
Are we still doing phrasing?
Grandma McMorris seldom curses, so when she said, “never let a son of a bitch know he’s a son of…
