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Say no to Labour’s citizens’ assembly
A spectre is haunting Westminster – the spectre of the citizens’ assembly. This unkillable bad idea is making the headlines…
The truth about John Lewis’s trans takeover
John Lewis is, to most people, a department store that exists to sell toasters, cushions and lamps. But it turns…
It’s stalemate in Ukraine but Putin is defeating the West in Africa
In the early hours of Saturday morning, police in Paris shot dead a Sudanese man who had threatened them with…
Is Starmer changing his mind on Gaza?
Labour has significantly shifted its language on Israel’s conflict with Hamas over the past 24 hours. But has it changed…
Kemi Badenoch is a one-woman attack unit
Kemi Badenoch has been launching a few more grenades into the Post Office row, with a bullish statement in the…
Defacing Amy Winehouse’s statue is anti-Semitic
It’s not about Jews, it’s about Zionism. It’s not anti-Semitism, it’s pro-Palestinianism. It’s not racism, it’s social justice. These are…
Why banning phones in schools won’t work
Breaking news: schools have finally been given guidance on stopping kids from using mobile phones during the school day, three years after…
Why Denmark is sending all its artillery to Ukraine
The Munich Security Conference has been nicknamed the ‘Davos of defence’. Every year, politicians, security analysts, military leaders and campaigners…
How identity politics infiltrated the judiciary
The ‘paraglider girls’ ruling last week has thrown long-standing questions about judicial impartiality in Britain into sharp relief. On Tuesday, three…
Michael Gove’s holiday let crackdown could trash the tourist industry
Just why did Michael Gove campaign for Brexit? I thought he was selling us a future with a more entrepreneurial…
‘Putin killed my husband’: Navalny’s wife vows to fight on
Three days on from his death, the widow of Alexei Navalny today vowed to continue the work of her husband…
The welcome demise of the smug shop
Though I believe that people who use the phrase ‘retail therapy’ should probably have their voting rights removed, I do like shops…
The key difference between Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Putin
Following Alexei Navalny’s suspicious ‘sudden death’ in an Arctic prison camp last Friday, two scenes immediately come to mind featuring…
What did David Cameron expect when he lectured the Americans?
Lord Cameron, bless him, is back striding the world stage. He wrote an article last week in Washington’s inside-beltway website…
Sunday round-up:‘Lay the blame at the door of Putin’ for Navalny death
Speaking to Trevor Phillips on Sky News this morning, Illegal Migration Minister Michael Tomlinson joined the foreign secretary in stating…
Pakistani democracy is on the brink
A senior official in Pakistan has publicly confessed to vote-rigging in the country’s general election earlier this month. It is…
How Iran radicalised Yemen’s most tolerant tribe
My family left Yemen for Israel in 1935, at a time when tens of thousands of Jews were still living…
Britain’s Jews aren’t safe
The explosion of hatred and extremism prompted by the October 7 massacre was never going to limit itself to the…
Did lockdowns cause more harm than good?
The question of whether lockdowns caused more problems than they solved will be picked over for years to come, even…
The torment of British Jews
When I was a child, learning about the Holocaust, I used to believe that what happened to the Jews in…
The Ada Lovelace myth
Lord Byron’s daughter Lady Ada Lovelace is almost as famous now as her father. An entire industry has sprung up…
Britain should resist French pressure for a joint defence plan
On Friday President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Volodymyr Zelensky to the Elysée with great fanfare. The Ukrainian president was in Paris…
Labour’s confusing ceasefire stance
If the Scottish Labour party are keen to get one message across at their Glasgow conference, it’s that they are…
Navalny’s cause of death changed to ‘sudden death syndrome’
How did Alexei Navalny die? The official version is that he collapsed after a walk in his Siberian prison. But…
Letitia James is helping Trump get re-elected
“Donald Trump may have authored the Art of the Deal,” said the New York attorney general Letitia James, doing her best…
