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Has Sunak done enough to fix the Rwanda plan?
When the Supreme Court found against the government on the Home Office’s Rwanda policy in November, the plan appeared to…
Is this the fall of Nicolas Maduro?
Venezuela’s dictator Nicholas Maduro has been embarrassed. In a transparent bid to rally political support, he asked voters to demand…
Banning journalists won’t solve Man United’s problems
Manchester United, a mess of a club on and off the field, has come up with a novel solution to…
Omid Scobie’s royal tell-all flops
For a couple supposedly desperate for privacy, Meghan and Harry have an interesting definition of what it means to escape…
Did Maori MPs mean to insult King Charles?
The co-leaders of New Zealand’s Māori party, Te Pāti Māori, have defended their actions at the swearing-in ceremony at parliament…
The war in Gaza is at a tipping point
The conflict in Gaza could be about to reach a defining moment. After weeks of air strikes, artillery bombardments and…
There’s a reason the market is rejecting electric cars
They are cheap to run. They rarely break down. And perhaps most of all they are far better for the…
A review of Britain’s airport slots is long overdue
When passing through an airport, the average traveller is unlikely to give much thought to the invisible economic forces that…
Why are fewer people buying electric cars?
The rebellion of 26 Conservative MPs against the government’s zero electric vehicle (ZEV) mandate couldn’t have come at a worse…
Is Nicolas Maduro planning to annex part of Guyana?
Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro seems to be in something of a political pickle. On Sunday, he held a referendum on…
The mistakes of Prohibition still haunt us
On December 5, 1933, exactly ninety years ago, the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed, formally lifting the ban on alcoholic beverages that…
Cleverly’s battle to send flights to Rwanda is not over yet
James Cleverly has just signed a new treaty with Rwanda that the UK government hopes will lead to the deportation…
The reason Xi and Putin liked Henry Kissinger
On Henry Kissinger’s passing, Xi Jinping published a letter, extolling this ‘old friend of China’ as a man of ‘outstanding strategic…
Tory right want migration crackdown to go further
Uh oh. Less than a day has passed since James Cleverly announced his new five-point immigration plan and already there…
Why Nella Rose was booted from I’m a Celeb
Farewell Nella Rose, second to be voted out of the jungle on the 2023 series of I’m A Celebrity… As always,…
If France can ignore the ECHR, why can’t we?
A couple of weeks ago, according to a story broken last Friday in Le Monde, the French government did the unthinkable. ‘MA’,…
The flaw in Scotland’s new transgender prison policy
Almost twelve months after rapist Isla Bryson was sent to women’s prison, the Scottish Prison Service has come up with…
Why didn’t Sunak listen to Braverman’s migration warning?
Conventional wisdom about politics isn’t quite always wrong: it is merely shown by the passage of events to have been…
Cleverly to sign fresh Rwanda deal
Fresh from his big statement in the Commons, James Cleverly has landed this morning in Kigali. The Home Secretary’s focus…
Israel should think twice before assassinating Hamas’s leaders
Israel knows that airstrikes alone cannot help it to win its war against Hamas. To handicap its enemy, the Israel…
What fiction can teach us about terrorism
The first decade of this century, following Al Qaeda’s attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon in September 2001,…
Sunak loses Commons vote for first time as PM
The government has just been defeated in the Commons for the first time since Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister. It…
The Tories’ migration crackdown will have many victims
The UK’s immigration system must be ‘fair, consistent, legal and sustainable’, proclaimed the new Home Secretary as he presented his…
Venezuelans voted to annex Guyana. What’s next?
Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro carried out a controversial referendum on whether more than two-thirds of Guyanese territory is Venezuelan land this…
The chilling link between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism
Isn’t it remarkable how similar anti-Zionism is to anti-Semitism? The latest proof of an intimate link between these two ideologies…
