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‘No mow May’ isn’t long enough
There’s one way of getting the look of the Chelsea Flower show winner, Ula Maria’s forest bathing garden, and that’s…
Could Scotland decide the election result?
The starting gun for the general election has been fired. This 2019 parliament is over and we will have a…
My father’s trunk reminds me of one of my earliest Memorial Days
Perhaps we all have our first memories of celebrating Memorial Day. Mine comes from 1945 when my father returned from…
Tories and Labour go to battle on TikTok
The digital election battle is heating up. Just a few days ago the Labour party joined TikTok, the social media…
Should presidential candidates pledge to free Assange?
Washington, DC WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a hero to libertarians. As is Ross Ulbricht, the founder of now-defunct Silk…
Young people are right to resent national service
Young Britons like me have already done our fair share of national service. For two gruelling years, we sacrificed the…
Will Labour raise taxes?
What is Labour’s tax-and-spend agenda? This is an outstanding question the party needs to answer before polling day – and…
Sunday shows round-up: Farage brands national service plan ‘a joke’
Today saw the first set of Sunday shows since the election was called on Wednesday. Rachel Reeves was interviewed by…
This national service plan is a patronising gimmick
The idea of bringing back national service to knock into shape teenage tearaways and long-haired layabouts was a staple of…
Sunak’s national service may end up backfiring
The idea of bringing back national service has been kicking around British politics for about five times longer than the…
Are Sinn Fein heading for an election triumph?
Bankrupt councils, the imminent collapse of Thames Water, prison overcrowding and a row with unions over public sector pay are…
Could Jeremy Corbyn become a left-wing Nigel Farage?
Why can’t Jeremy Corbyn be a left-wing Farage? Why can’t he threaten Labour as Ukip and its successor parties threatened…
Sunak won’t be much help to the Scottish Tories
The first few days of this general election campaign have been characterised by Rishi Sunak’s dismal campaign management. From wet…
Sam Altman is not evil
It’s a classic trajectory. You start as a likeable and geeky tech tyro, you morph into a squillionaire with disagreeable…
The crisis in the NHS’s adult gender clinics
Hilary Cass’s review of children’s gender services revealed how young people are being badly let down by the NHS. The…
Sunak is right, Britain needs national service
The Tories have announced that, if re-elected, they will introduce national service. And it won’t be the miserable existence imposed…
Why Rishi Sunak wants to introduce national service
The first big new policy announcement of the election campaign is in from the Tories, and it’s likely to be…
Is Michael Gove set to become the next Strictly star?
As the exodus of Conservative MPs continues, Mr S is rather curious about what alternative careers retiring Tories have in…
How many Tory big beasts will the Lib Dems oust?
It’s four days since Rishi Sunak surprised his colleagues and announced a summer election. So far a lot of the…
A Chinese invasion of Taiwan remains unlikely
For a second day, yesterday, Chinese fighter jets and warships surrounded Taiwan for drills which the People’s Liberation Army said…
The ICJ’s Rafah ruling is unwelcome and unwise
Yesterday afternoon, in a striking move, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN’s top court, ordered Israel to stop military operations in Rafah…
The smoking ban won’t go away
Has Rishi Sunak’s surprise summer election spared Britain some nanny state interventions? At first glance it seemed so, as it…
Germany was right to take the Reichsbürger threat seriously
Germany is in the grip of one of the most extensively covered courtroom dramas in recent memory. On trial is…
How Benjamin Netanyahu and Joe Biden fell out
After the atrocities committed by Hamas in southern Israel on 7 October, President Biden offered his total and unflinching support…
The sad decline of Oxford
The cliché about Oxford – and as a resident of the city, I have skin in the game here –…
