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Emmer next up? A complete guide to the House speaker race
Will today be the day we get a permanent speaker of the House? It’s tough to say. House Republicans huddled…
All is not lost for Argentina’s anarcho-capitalist presidential hopeful
Argentina’s presidential hopeful Javier Milei will have to wait to turn his country into an anarcho-capitalist anti-state where the peso…
Will the UK proscribe Iran’s revolutionary guard?
Why won’t the government proscribe the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps? MPs have been asking that question for more than a…
Labour’s Hansard howlers on Israel
Communication is everything in politics, as Labour’s overactive press office knows all too well. Earlier this month, Keir Starmer did…
Where is the empathy for innocent Israelis?
This open letter, signed by Simon Sebag Montefiore and others, was first published in the ‘Chronicle for Higher Education’. It…
Why does Macron think France should learn to live with terrorism?
When an Islamist extremist charged into his school in Arras, northern France, with a knife, Christian Berroyer could have hidden…
Israel’s plight exposes the truth about virtue signalling ‘values’
Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, recently took a pop at immigrants who she accused of failing to ‘embrace British values’.…
How the Arab world turned against Hamas
What do people think of Hamas? In recent days, this has been something of a vexed question for many in…
Will Germany’s new left-wing party challenge the AfD?
Sahra Wagenknecht, a pivotal figure of the German left, has decided to go up against her former party by launching…
Sunak declares ‘watershed moment’ in Middle East
Rishi Sunak’s update to MPs on the Israel-Hamas conflict today included the revelation that the UK security services had concluded…
What liberal America gets wrong about Trump supporters
Hillary Clinton normally speaks in carefully crafted bromides, so when I read in the New York Post about her risqué suggestion during…
Netanyahu has good reasons to delay the ground invasion of Gaza
Israel has called in more than 300,000 reservists in the 17 days since Hamas’s monstrous attack on 7 October. Many…
Summer madness in Helsinki
“For the bravest in the group. Exit Flow from the back.” “We’ve found it. It is insane.” “This is the…
The Met Police’s ‘jihad’ lecture shows it has lost the plot
I knew the police had lost the plot, but even I didn’t expect them to start issuing chin-stroking theological justifications…
Are Amazon’s publishing gurus doing anything wrong?
Alex Kaplo lives, apparently, the life of Riley. The 31-year-old’s website shows him roaring around in a Mercedes, and he…
The taxman’s dodgy data
Ten years ago, HMRC unveiled what was billed as ‘the biggest change’ to the tax system since PAYE began in…
Britain needs to rethink devolution
Scotland is stuck. This week has only confirmed it. SNP leader Humza Yousaf used his party conference in Aberdeen to…
Lost in Translation was Tokyo at its bizarre, dislocating best
You can wait ages for a Japan themed Hollywood film and then three come at once. In an odd spasm…
Why Angela McLean’s ‘Dr Death’ jibe matters
Does it matter if the chief scientific adviser referred to Rishi Sunak as ‘Dr Death’ In a private message to…
What Liz Truss did next
It was a year ago on Wednesday that Liz Truss left office. As the ministerial cavalcade rolled out of Downing…
AI will destroy TV news
As we all know, the last few days have been filled with terrible news out of Israel and Gaza, and…
Why the kids hate Jews
The surest way to work up a crusade in favour of some good cause is to promise people they will…
The Tory war on woke won’t work
Visibly desperate Conservatives are counting on their opposition to the left’s cultural revolution to save them, if not from defeat,…
Belgium’s cowardice is preventing it from tackling its terror threat
Last year, a French broadcaster asked if Belgium was in danger of becoming a narco state. The question was posed…
Jihad chanters let off by the Met
Oh dear. It seems that the wokest police force in all the West has done it again. In the past…
