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ATACMS missiles alone won’t change the game in Ukraine
America’s ATACMS long-range missiles were a potential ‘game changer’ to the war in Ukraine to some, a potential source of…
Can the BBC World Service really go on like this?
The BBC has launched what it is calling an ‘urgent investigation’ into six journalists and a freelancer working for its…
The changing season brings a change in politics
If you are paying attention, you know that nature is full of inklings and adumbrations. I am writing in New…
Meet Meredith Angwin, the grandmother changing the energy industry
Along a twist in the Connecticut River within an old-style colonial Vermont home lives Meredith Angwin, the Jewish grandmother who…
The new wave of woman hate
It was in the late 1990s, during then-President Bill Clinton’s scandal, when I first concluded that neither major political party…
The future looks Republican
In presidential elections there’s no such thing as a Pyrrhic victory. Winning is everything — and neither party would ever…
Reports of the death of freedom have been greatly exaggerated
Not long ago, I accepted an invitation to attend a gala dinner in Washington, DC, celebrating what Caketoppers.co.uk informs me…
Why ‘dirty’ coal is vital to a ‘clean’ green future
The Central and Western regions of Pennsylvania are known for their majestic, untamed landscapes. Seen from on high, you’d think…
Macron’s worrying dilemma
For a man so keen to thrust himself onto the international stage, Emmanuel Macron has been surprisingly quiet over the…
Who do the police protect?
The function of the police, one might have thought, was to protect the weak against the overbearing and the bullying.…
The weather isn’t to blame for Britons shopping less
It was the weather wot did it, wot stopped us spending in the shops. Yet again, the favourite old excuse…
Pressure is mounting for Jeremy Hunt to find tax cuts
Timing is a funny thing. The Chancellor received some good news about the public finances this morning, just when everyone…
Can Sunak convince Tory MPs to hold their nerve?
Why have the Tories lost both Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth, seats they could normally rely on the laws of physics…
Tory voters are no longer scared of Labour
Amid all the discussion in Tory circles about whether the next election will have more in common with the narrow…
Losing Tamworth and Mid-Bedfordshire is a disaster for Sunak
What an epically horrible night for the Conservative part, one of the worst in the party’s long and storied history.…
Iran and Hamas didn’t always get on
In the days after Hamas’s attack on Israel last week, everyone wondered how much Iran knew beforehand. But a focus…
Tories suffer double by-election defeat
Keir Starmer has reason to celebrate this morning after his party triumphed overnight in both the Mid-Bedfordshire and Tamworth by-elections.…
Biden’s Oval Office address was a sales pitch
A primetime address in the Oval Office is the pinnace of presidential speechifying. Ronald Reagan used the room in 1986…
The Queen’s sole mistake
It’s often been said that the late Queen Elizabeth II rarely if ever put a foot wrong during her 70-year…
The Treasury should stop paying attention to the OBR
A year ago Liz Truss’ brief government collapsed when markets lost confidence in Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget. A large part of the…
Sunak tells Israel: ‘We want you to win’
Rishi Sunak is in Israel today for talks with the country’s leaders amid the ongoing conflict. The Prime Minister has…
Protests and confusion follow the Gaza hospital blast
On President Biden’s last-minute trip to Israel Wednesday, the commander-in-chief pledged America’s support to the Jewish state alongside Prime Minister…
‘WFH Whitehall’ still afflicting Foreign Office
The Foreign Office is often called the grandest of all Whitehall’s ministries – so it’s just a shame then that…
Biden struggles to speak aboard Air Force One
Is it ageist to suggest that an obviously frail 80-year-old might not be well suited to the task of resolving…
A culinary tour of southern France and northern Spain
If I’d known what a whole monkfish looks like, I would never have ordered it. It was only weeks later…
