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Starmer can’t ignore the sickness benefits crisis
Where is the stick? For weeks the government has been trailing its white paper on benefits reform by floating the…
We don’t need the Supreme Court to define a ‘woman’
In a scenario straight out of Monty Python, learned judges in the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom will today start…
Starmer’s anti-spiking law is a needless stunt
Keir Starmer has announced that he will introduce new legislation to make the spiking of drinks a specific criminal offence.…
The British Museum doesn’t need a slavery gallery
The British Museum is beginning to think about the possibility of embarking on a massive programme of refurbishment, repairs and…
Why are the police allowing trans officers to strip-search women?
What is the British Transport Police playing at? Biologically male officers identifying as female will be allowed to intimately search women so long…
The truth about Labour’s ‘class war’
Keir Starmer’s critics might have you believe that the Labour government is fighting a class war. They point to Education…
Don’t expect an end to Europe’s migrant crisis any time soon
Nearly a year ago the EU unveiled what it called its ‘New Pact on Migration and Asylum’ with much fanfare.…
Why I cancelled my trip to Dignitas
Nobody understands the attraction of assisted suicide like I do. In 2019, life as I knew it – a busy…
Nigel Farage looks like the future of right-wing politics
Nigel Farage ought to terrify the Tories. He has terrified them many times over the past decades. But until now,…
Why does Oxford not Cambridge dominate British politics?
Given Oxford’s well-known reputation as the nursery for Britain’s political elite, it’s no surprise to find two governmental grandees currently…
How ‘experts’ led to the rise of RFK Jr.
The nomination of husky-voiced, musclebound Robert F. Kennedy Jr — who once dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park…
Why Trump shouldn’t boot trans people out of the military
The bogeyman that progressives feared Donald Trump would unleash upon the United States appears to have already arrived – and…
Did Covid vaccines really save 12 million lives?
The BBC reported that AstraZeneca and Pfizer are credited with together saving more than 12 million lives in the first…
The fall of English Literature
On the edges of the City of London, a couple of miles from where I grew up, there’s a very…
The insufferable rise of the sportswriter bore
Can someone check on Guardian sportswriter Jonathan Liew? It would appear he is not taking events in the Middle East terribly well,…
Is swimming racist?
I think we can all be delighted that, at last, the University of Leicester has taken action to end one…
Why the general election petition matters
Does it matter that a petition calling for another general election has gone viral online and garnered more than two…
Why farmers – not the Treasury – are right about inheritance tax
There is a reason 10,000 farmers and their supporters descended on Westminster last week to protest against the government’s planned…
What the ICC gets wrong about Israel
Legal reasoning is only as good as the ethical concepts it uses. That’s why the International Criminal Court’s decision to…
Why won’t Irish politicians talk about immigration?
Ireland is gearing up for its general election this Friday – and what started out as a relatively moribund campaign…
Labour might regret its desire for vote reform
Turkeys don’t usually vote for Christmas, so just why have 43 new Labour MPs signed up to the All Party…
Rachel Reeves deserves a rough ride at the CBI
Rachel Reeves was probably expecting to be cheered for restoring ‘stability’, for rebooting ‘growth’ and crafting a British version of…
In praise of Shabana Mahmood
Should Shabana Mahmood be allowed to ‘impose’ her religious beliefs on everyone else? Lord Falconer doesn’t think so, arguing yesterday that…
Rachel Reeves faces a frosty reception at the CBI summit
At the beginning of the year, Rachel Reeves was being praised all round for her efforts repairing relations between the…
The trouble with Labour’s ‘respect orders’
As the Allison Pearson debacle begins to settle down, the lesson being drawn by many is that the police have…
