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Professor Arday is the gift that keeps on giving
Are congratulations in order for Sacha Baron Cohen? The more I read about Jason Arday, the Cambridge sociology professor and DEI…
Mamdani’s reparations talk is risible
When asked on The Root whether he’d support cash reparations for black New Yorkers, Mayor Mamdani said he wouldn’t rule it out:…
Burnham welcomes Diane Abbott back to Labour
Andy Burnham has continued his warm embrace of Labour’s worst lefties by reinstating Diane Abbott to the parliamentary party. The…
Is this the end of Argos?
It seems incredible, in the year of our lord 2026, that Argos still exists. And no, I don’t mean Odysseus’…
The Ceuta border has become a European emergency
Yesterday, thousands of young Moroccan men – as well as women, children and non-Moroccans – entered Ceuta, one of Spain’s tiny…
Uefa is right to stand up to Gianni Infantino
Fifa president Gianni Infantino is a man who likes to get his own way. But he now faces the biggest…
Are the rich still fleeing Britain?
One of the first magazine cover pieces I wrote as economics editor was: ‘Go – Why the Rich Are Fleeing Britain’.…
In defence of Quentin Letts
We’re living in a golden age of parliamentary sketch writing; never have so many been made mincemeat of by so…
Trump is a study of indecision on Iran
The US Senate narrowly defeated a measure yesterday intended to crimp, if not terminate, President Trump’s ability to conduct hostilities…
The offensive farce of Hackney’s urge to de-twin with Haifa
For those still paying attention to the evil mischief indulged in and spread by the anti-Zionism-obsessed Green party, a sizeable…
Why Burnham’s levelling-up drive is sure to backfire
‘Growth in every postcode’, ‘levelling up’ – whatever you call it, it is easier to sympathise with the general aim…
What students still get wrong about the Final Solution
Eighty-five years ago today, one of the most important directives in world history was issued. On 31 July 1941, Hermann Göring – a…
Legal organ harvesting is just a PR campaign away
Summertime, and the living isn’t as easy as it used to be. The dying, though, is getting easier, especially if…
Watch: Thousands of illegal migrants storm the border into Spain
Ceuta is a small Spanish enclave. It would be very easy for the military to round-up everyone who has just…
Burnham’s boats problem
Andy Burnham has a boats problem – and no amount of glossy TikToks can make it go away. Since taking…
How to respond to a wildfire
The Dunwich fire that has swept across the heathland neighbouring my house is both terrifying and tragic for the environment…
We still know little about Andy Burnham’s defence stance
It was a bare-bones demonstration of politics as theatre. Today, the Prime Minister went to Barrow-in-Furness on the Cumbrian coast…
Is making Joe Root England captain such a good idea?
Joe Root is to be the new captain of the England Test team. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)…
The Bank of England’s rate hold is good news for John Healey
Energy prices have been on the rise again in recent weeks and fears of another inflationary shock are, again, on…
Britain has made its mind up about Nigel Farage
No. 10 (North and South alike) will be heartened by polling suggesting that the more the British public sees of…
Can Burnham raise care workers’ wages without raising taxes?
In a speech yesterday Andy Burnham promised that there will not just be ‘fair pay’ in social care but ‘bigger…
Burnham must resist the urge to tax banking profits
The cheaper bus fares will have to be paid for. So will the modest cut to electricity bills, along with…
The tragedy of Live at the Apollo
One of the lamentable side effects of the ultra-progressive wave that swept the western world in the mid-2010s was that…
Cambridge is coming out very badly from the Jason Arday affair
I’ve never met Professor Jason Arday. I don’t know whether he has genuinely run 600 miles in six days. I…
Why did Anthony Fauci take the Fifth?
In his final hours in office, President Joe Biden issued a preemptive, blanket legal pardon for Dr Anthony Fauci, the…
