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France’s protesting farmers have spooked Emmanuel Macron
The farmers of France are mobilising. Their anger will be an early test for Gabriel Attal; the countryside is unknown…
What Katharine Birbalsingh gets wrong about secularism
Katharine Birbalsingh is back in the papers again. The head teacher at Michaela, a free school whose outstanding academic record and…
How will ‘ceasefire’ calls affect the Democratic primary in New Hampshire?
Manchester, New Hampshire The Republican and Democratic primaries in New Hampshire are two sides of the same coin. New polls…
Ron DeSantis’s cursed campaign
Ron DeSantis’ political action committee is called ‘Never Back Down.’ Well, he just did. A week ago, he said of…
Shapps: Netanyahu’s rejection of a two-state solution is ‘very disappointing’
On a call with Joe Biden this weekend, the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated Israel’s demand for security control…
Can we trust Hunt’s tax cut promise?
More tax cuts are on their way, according to the both the Prime Minister and Chancellor who have written comment…
Israel can’t win in Gaza anymore
The first and most important principle of war for any military campaign is the selection and maintenance of ‘the aim’.…
Katharine Birbalsingh and France’s own secularism battle
The row that has erupted at Katharine Birbalsingh’s Michaela school in north London highlights the difference in how Britain and…
We still live in Lenin’s world
Today is the centenary of Vladimir Lenin’s death. His Moscow funeral was marked by official communist solemnity, as if a…
Did ‘shallow Christianity’ help the Nazis rise to power?
‘Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison,’ C.S. Lewis famously said.…
AI just changed the world. Again
Argentine President Javier Milei’s recent speech, to the World Economic Forum in Davos, has caused a stir for several reasons.…
The fall of Nikki Haley’s comet
In the waning days of 2023, the last weeks of the before-time — the moments before the Republican Party would…
Despite three years in prison, Navalny still scares Putin
The March presidential elections in Russia will, of course, be a stage-managed farce, but that doesn’t mean that real politics…
Was the Post Office’s Horizon software used to wrongly convict a man of murder?
Robin Garbutt, the postmaster who lived above the village shop with his wife, Diana, was a popular figure in Melsonby,…
How Australia became obsessed with land acknowledgments
If you attend almost any public meeting or event in Australia these days, you’ll be greeted – some would say…
How Israel is failed by its war of words
Sitting in a room at the Israel Defence Forces’ Hakirya base in Tel Aviv, I listened – along with a…
Nikki Haley says being Trump’s vice president is ‘off the table’
The theory that Donald Trump will pick Nikki Haley as his vice president refuses to die – in spite of…
Prince Harry’s libel case humiliation
As flies are to wanton boys – and this particular boy is as wanton as it gets – so Prince…
The real reason Netanyahu is opposed to a Palestinian state
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Biden administration earlier this week that he objects to the establishment of…
The madness of the Port Talbot closures
Hurrah! The UK is just about to reduce its carbon emissions by a further 1.5 per cent. As for Wales,…
Prince Harry faces £750k libel bill
It seems the renegade royal has run away again. All of Fleet Street was eagerly anticipating the mother of all…
Does Sunak have a relatability problem?
Rishi Sunak has been caught on camera apparently walking away from a woman who has just started telling him about…
Agreeing to power-sharing now could ruin the DUP
Once upon a time, a young unionist politician marched out of a talks process. Recalling the incident later, he said: ‘I…
The curious case of Nicola Sturgeon’s missing WhatsApps
The saga of the Scottish Government’s WhatsApps continues to rumble on. The SNP regime has never been slow in condemning…
How Catalan separatists are taking control of immigration
In Spain’s general election last July, the right-wing Partido Popular and the even more right-wing Vox won 170 seats, just…
