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Rishi Sunak’s Oliver Dowden problem
Margaret Thatcher was said to have once remarked that every prime minister needed a Willie. Given that humour was not…
How contentious will the King’s Speech be?
This morning King Charles will take part in the state opening of parliament for the first time as monarch. The…
The Met’s strange approach to protest
Demonstrations against Israel, some attracting many thousands of people, have become a regular occurrence. We have grown used to the…
Is the Met doing all it can to control the Palestine protests?
The Metropolitan police force is falling apart before our eyes. With it is going our sense of safety and security…
The danger of Hamas drone attacks
The rise of the combat drone is changing the nature of the battlefield, as Israel has already found to its…
Why won’t Gary Lineker call out the fascism of Hamas?
One of the most curious things following Hamas’s massacre of the Jews on 7 October was the silence of Britain’s…
In defence of ‘rip-off’ airline charges
The Conservative party is 25 points behind in the polls. Its backbenchers are scrambling around to find new jobs, and…
The trouble with Olaf Scholz
German chancellor Olaf Scholz still doesn’t get it. ‘Der Fisch stinkt vom Kopf’ (the fish stinks from its head) is…
Will Rishi Sunak’s electric car targets backfire?
Rishi Sunak was attacked by the green lobby for delaying the outright ban on new petrol and diesel cars from…
Next year’s US election promises a crisis
There’s only a year to go until the most complex and consequential US presidential election ever. Ukraine, the Middle East,…
Israel is in a race against time to defeat Hamas
The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) declared last night that Gaza has been encircled and divided into two separate parts: north…
What can be done about AI porn?
The foul-mouthed puppet musical Avenue Q, way back in 2003, caught the spirit of the age to come. ‘The internet is…
Is the West losing interest in Ukraine?
There’s a very different tone coming from Kyiv these days. Speaking to Time magazine, Volodymyr Zelensky had just returned from Washington…
Are we diluting the meaning of ‘mental health’?
What does ‘mental health’ mean? Is the answer to that question undergoing a generational change, as younger people become more…
Oliver Dowden: I have ‘grave concerns’ about Armistice day marches
As the conflict in Gaza continues, there is increasing division over the crisis here in the UK. Keir Starmer continues…
Watch: Michael Crick versus GB News
Some compulsory weekend viewing from GB News. The channel invited veteran broadcaster Michael Crick onto Neil Oliver’s show yesterday to…
To win, Israel must destroy the labyrinth of Hamas tunnels
As Israeli forces continue to push into Gaza they face threats from Hamas terrorists who use a network of tunnels…
The anarchy of bonfire night
Bonfire night festivities in Britain today are increasingly highly choreographed events: council-sponsored firework displays mounted by professional companies, sponsored by…
Hamas and the narcissism of the progressive left
A prominent member of Hamas’s political bureau has been causing something of a stir on the internet in recent days.…
Benjamin Netanyahu is a dangerous ally for the left
There is no better example of modern pseudo-sophistication than the dismissal of the argument in the Labour party about a ceasefire…
The long and bloody history of tunnel warfare
Tunnel fighting has always been a problem. As Israel battles in Gaza against some 5,000 Hamas fighters embedded in buildings,…
Putin is scraping the barrel with ‘glide bombs’ in Ukraine
It’s not easy to say this, but Ukraine’s offensive to retake lost territory has fizzled out. Autumnal weather has turned…
The cultural appropriation of the keffiyeh
I’ve never been sorry that I left education at 17, armed with nothing but my raw talent and splendid rack.…
The case for prosecuting ‘from the river to the sea’
As an international lawyer, splitting my time between London and Brussels, I dare say I might be considered one of…
The Arab world still wants peace with Israel
As Israeli forces continue to pound Gaza in retaliation for Hamas’s atrocity, and TV images of dying civilian Palestinians flood…
