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Why France can’t save us
From an early age, my grandparents tried to save me the pitfalls of a lower middle class English existence by…
Democrats fawned over Fauci in closed-door Covid hearing
As a new Covid variant, JN1, has cropped up across America, the public health officials who were at the forefront…
Is the GOP about to sell out on the border?
Some details of the latest congressional border deal, negotiated by Republican senator James Lankford and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer,…
Taiwan’s voters defy Beijing
Taiwan’s voters have defied Beijing’s threats and intimidation and elected as president the most independence-minded of the candidates for the…
In defence of Brewdog
Brewdog, the Scotland-based brewery that has exploded into an international business in the last 15 years, is never far from…
There’s another dodgy data scandal brewing
The government is reeling from the Post Office Horizon scandal. ‘Lessons must be learnt’, goes the cry around Westminster. But…
How the Houthis can frustrate the West
On Thursday, the United States and the United Kingdom launched two rounds of strikes against 72 Houthi targets in Yemen…
In praise of Sven-Goran Eriksson
Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has revealed that he has cancer and, ‘at best’, about a year to live. The…
‘Sir’ Ed Davey’s Lib Dems are the real nasty party
Growing up in 1970s working-class Bristol (before it went all poke: posh and woke) life was so tribal that you…
The vast corruption of Ukraine’s sanctions regime
Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, a former US government official visited Kiev to inquire how he could help to supply…
The Tory party’s empty legacy
It was Evelyn Waugh who dismissed the Tories as having ‘never put the clock back a single second’. Now, even…
How the World Economic Forum’s ‘Young Global Leaders’ find their way to the top
The French found out on Thursday evening that, under their new prime minister, nothing will change in the way their…
What if the Houthi airstrikes fail?
The curse of air power is that air strikes always capture the public’s attention. The praise that follows their tactical…
The delusion of the Houthi pacifists
I see ‘Not in my name’ is trending on social media. It’s in response to the US and UK strikes…
What Britain’s defence deal with Ukraine means for the war
In his surprise visit to Kyiv, Rishi Sunak had two pieces of good news for Ukrainians: another £2.5 billion in…
Suella savages Sunak’s Rwanda Bill
The Rwanda Bill comes back to parliament next week which means a return of Westminster’s favourite parlour game: Tory blue-on-blue.…
Have the Houthis gone rogue?
The US and Britain really didn’t think they had a choice about bombing Yemen in retaliation for Houthi attacks on…
Gabriel Attal and the unstoppable rise of Klaus Schwab’s ‘global leaders’
The French found out on Thursday evening that, under their new prime minister, nothing will change in the way their…
Who are the Houthis?
About a month ago, a regional brigade of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the militia that undergirds the power…
South Africa has no right to lecture Israel
As South Africa presented its case accusing Israel of genocide to the International Court of Justice, the presence of former…
Will Red Sea strikes disrupt the UK economy?
November is proving to have been a lucky month in Britain. Inflation slowed significantly: from 4.6 per cent on the…
Striking the Houthis won’t stop Iran
A month before the targeted killing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) commander Qassem Soleimani in January 2020, few would have…
Why do I keep falling for Boris Johnson’s charm?
On Saturday, I was in a public library, waiting for an old guy to finish with the Times. But he seemed…
Britain and US launch airstrikes against Houthis
The US and the UK have launched airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen whose continued attacks are disrupting trade in…
We don’t need targets to know the NHS is failing
How has the NHS missed most of its key targets for the past seven years? Some parts of the UK-wide…
