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The Belfast border loophole that leaves us all unsafe
On Monday night, a video from Belfast was shared on social media. It shows a black man raising his bloodstained…
How Labour ruined the labour market
So, is an open labour market a good thing or not? There is little point in looking to the government…
Watch: Hilary Benn’s Belfast evasion
Jim Allister: “What will be done to stop the importation of an alien culture that thinks it’s appropriate to try…
Reform demands answers on grooming gangs
The public is rightly focused on the violent attack that unfolded in Belfast on Monday. But today, Reform is keen…
Can China keep North Korea in check?
When Xi Jinping visited North Korea in June 2019 for his first state visit, he would not have expected nearly…
Kemi Badenoch’s equality reforms don’t go far enough
Ten years ago, I found myself accompanying the then Permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign Office to the Locarno room…
Why the BBC won’t be presenting the World Cup from America
This year’s World Cup, already full of controversy, is being held across an unprecedented three countries: the United States, Mexico…
My annual pilgrimage along the route of the Berlin Wall
Each time I return to Berlin – that wonderful, awful city where I whiled away the best days of my…
The luvvies are out for Reform. Is anyone listening?
Brace yourself! Celebrities are on the march. As Keir Starmer’s premiership fades into irrelevance and Reform gears up to fight…
HelloFresh’s stomach-churning Pride ad
HelloFresh is a popular food-delivery service that has simplified home cooking with its pre-prepared ingredients. Yet this month, Pride Month,…
Zia Yusuf to address MAGAworld
With the weather improving, small boat arrivals look set to increase in the coming weeks. So what better time for…
Sudanese knife attack suspect ‘had leave to remain’
The Sudanese man arrested over a horrific knife attack in Belfast yesterday was granted leave to remain for five years…
Westminster can’t escape blame for the Murrell scandal
Per Sir Humphrey Appleby: ‘A basic rule of government is never look into anything you don’t have to and never…
Kemi’s equality reform proposals are long overdue
Kemi Badenoch is right to argue that the Public Sector Equality Duty should go – and I say that as someone who…
The urgent case for fixing California’s broken elections
When late arriving ballots in the race for Los Angeles mayor turned dramatically against conservative Spencer Pratt last week, Donald…
Kemi Badenoch: James Bond must not be woke
Kemi Badenoch today threw her weight behind Idris Elba’s call for casting directors to avoid a ‘woke’ choice for the…
Idris Elba is right about James Bond
When Daniel Craig was finishing his run as James Bond in 2021, Sir Keir Starmer was asked who was his…
Rachel Reeves should scrap stamp duty
A report published this week from the Housing, Communities and Local Government committee, made up of cross-party MPs, has been…
Ben Stokes’s troubles are a blessing in disguise for English cricket
The England cricket captain, Ben Stokes, was involved in an altercation at a night club in the early hours of…
Now Ireland wants to boycott Israeli football games
After their spectacular own goal over Eurovision, surely sulking Irish activists would think twice before launching yet another attempt to…
The case for the administrative state
By dismantling the Deep State, Donald Trump may inadvertently have undermined his own claim to rule. A chain of unintended…
Starmer is in survival mode – but for what purpose?
Keir Starmer is using this morning’s cabinet meeting to underline the message he has been sending to more junior ministers…
The battle for BP that shows woke isn’t over
Peak woke – like peak oil – is a moment always apparently on the horizon but never actually reached. The…
Will Badenoch’s war on identity politics succeed?
Kemi Badenoch is expected to reveal the Conservative party’s new approach to equality law in a speech today. Most prominent…
The painful truth about Britain’s ‘world-class’ universities
Britain does not have a world-class higher education system. We have a small number of truly world-class universities, able to…
