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Does Rishi Sunak think Labour is already running the country?
He strutted into the middle of the studio in dark slacks and a creaseless white shirt. Nippy, zestful, ready for…
Job vacancies fall – but not by enough to lower interest rates
Has the Labour market cooled down enough for the Bank of England to change its mind on interest rates? Almost…
Canada’s ridiculous housing ban for foreigners
Canada, like many countries, has certain limitations in place related to foreign investment and ownership – in everything from large-scale businesses…
Why progressives don’t face real consequences
One of the most tedious and repetitive observations made in the often tedious and repetitive discourse around cancel culture is…
What Trump gets right about Nato
With the exception of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Slovakia’s Robert Fico, it’s safe to assume that Europe is petrified about the prospects…
Opening a bottle with… Angela Hartnett
Quizzed on how to assimilate to new cultures, travel writer and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain once said: “Drink heavily with…
Trump says he will let NATO down. How will Kamala Harris respond?
When Donald Trump declared that Russia could do “whatever the hell it wants” to NATO countries, he was espousing his…
Why no-fault evictions shouldn’t be banned
A decade ago, left-wingers started using the phrase ‘zero hours contracts’ to refer to what had previously been known as…
Trump’s madness will strengthen Nato
‘Appalling and unhinged’ was Joe Biden’s (or at least the White House’s) verdict on Donald Trump’s remarks that he might…
The sinister transformation of Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg spent her weekend in France supporting two environmental campaigns. On Sunday she appeared at a rally in Bordeaux…
The problem with Kneecap – and the arts blob
When I was about 14 or 15, someone sent me a birthday card with the words: ‘Teenagers – tired of…
Why the Tory party is breaking apart
I don’t, I freely admit, remember all that much about my chemistry lessons at school. Covalent bonding delighted me not,…
The battle for Rafah could turn into a bloodbath
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu views the conflict in Gaza as a zero-sum game – with Israel either destroying Hamas or…
The stalemate on illegal immigration
Few moments are less promising to reach a bipartisan deal than the months before a presidential election. And few issues…
The renewables bubble has burst
It wasn’t so long ago that Orsted was being held up as an example of how oil and gas companies…
Why is President Biden scared of Iran?
The Biden administration often appears more afraid of Iran than Iran is of the Biden administration. That is a very…
Is diversity actually good for business?
It is a sacred mantra of the business circuit that diverse boards improve company performance. It has apparently been proven…
Russia’s ‘Red Ripper’ Andrei Chikatilo was a uniquely Soviet serial killer
In the wake of Vladimir Putin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, as atrocities like the killings at Bucha and Irpin came…
‘Mm, uh huh, yeah’: Tucker Carlson and journalism’s therapeutic turn
Could the subject of the Sudetenland have been resolved more satisfactorily if Adolf Hitler had been given a more open…
How the Chinese markets lost faith in the CCP
Ahead of the Chinese new year holiday, Beijing has been intervening to prop up the country’s stock markets. Regulators have…
The left can’t stand France’s new culture minister
France’s new minister of culture has promised to put an end to the creeping cancel culture that is threatening the…
Rishi Sunak’s week of howlers has exposed his big weakness
It is quite some achievement to launch an attack on Keir Starmer’s contortions over trans rights versus women’s rights and…
Germany’s rustbelt is reviving – but voters are still flocking to the AfD
West Germany’s first chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, hated eastern Germany and said – possibly apocryphally – that Asia begins at the…
Canterbury Cathedral’s ‘rave in the nave’ is indefensible
It’s too late to get tickets for Canterbury Cathedral’s silent disco tonight – as with last night’s event, they sold…
Democrats face a self-reinforcing 2024 nightmare
Yesterday was a year’s worth of a rising wave that came crashing down on Democratic hopes for 2024. They had…
