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Terror tunnels and snipers: Life on the frontline in Gaza’s suspended reality
The first thing that struck me as I crossed into central Gaza yesterday was how ordinary the landscape looked. Grassy…
Is Norway about to take a step closer to joining the EU?
This weekend in Oslo politicians and activists from Norway’s conservative party, Høyre, will meet to confirm their new leader, Ine Eriksen…
Why isn’t Reform welcome on university campuses?
It’s been a while, but student censors are on the march once more. This time, they have Reform UK firmly…
What Louis Theroux’s Netflix show won’t tell you about the ‘Manosphere’
There once was a time when you couldn’t move for some progressive voice complaining in superior tones about the latest…
Britain’s managed decline can’t continue
Britain is on course for its weakest decade of growth in a century, according to the latest GDP figures. The…
Sainsbury’s brave new world of facial recognition cameras
Supermarket customers in Britain are part of a growing experiment in surveillance. After an eight-week trial, Sainsbury’s has made live…
US troops finally leave Syria
In December 2018, to the shock of pretty much everybody in the US national security establishment at the time, President…
Tom Homan is Minnesota’s good cop
In announcing an end to the ICE surge in Minnesota, Tom Homan has become for Democrats an unlikely good cop…
Labour is backing down on child transition
Wilson is said to have claimed that ‘a week is a long time in politics’. Not for the civil servants…
Why was Jim Ratcliffe punished for speaking the truth?
Imagine getting angrier over a word than a rape. This will go down in history as the week when there…
Could this teenage girl be the next leader of North Korea?
Every authoritarian regime, particularly a dynastic one, at some point has to face the question of succession. North Korea is…
Will Trump ‘totally obliterate’ Iran’s nuclear programme – again?
Donald Trump spent much of the second half of last year boasting about the total and utter success of his…
Cartel drones vs Texas lasers
Yesterday, El Paso, Texas, was placed under severe restrictions from the Federal Aviation Administration. For unspecified reasons of national security,…
Why was Canada so afraid of misgendering a trans shooter?
A horrible and incredibly sad tragedy unfolded on February 10 in the small town of Tumbler Ridge in British Columbia,…
The case for Antonia Romeo
A few thoughts about the Antonia Romeo furore. This will doubtless not help her at all but Starmer would be…
Starmer pick slammed by ex-mandarin
When a PM is in crisis, what do they do? Sack the head of the civil service. Having lost both…
Jim Ratcliffe has a point about Britain
Jim Ratcliffe is not a polished media performer, and neither does he have an accurate set of UK demographic statistics…
Is there a silver lining in Britain’s dismal growth figures?
Wes Streeting was bang on when he told Peter Mandelson the government had ‘no growth strategy at all’. The Health…
The question we keep asking after Afghan sex attacks
Why was he here? It’s a question we are forced to ask over and over again in borderless Britain, after…
Why I left London, the city I loved
My friends never let me forget the first time I came to London. They couldn’t understand why I was so…
Britain has an antisemitism problem
Want to know what kind of country you live in? You live in a country in which there are more…
Keir Starmer staggers on for another day
Sir Keir Starmer is now the Black Knight of British politics. Like the mutilated pugilist of Monty Python, he stumbles around…
Epstein and Lutnick, sitting in a tree?
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick admitted that he went on vacation, with his family, to Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in 2012. How very…
Keir Starmer’s PMQ cluckings convinced no one
Sir Keir got probably the biggest cheer he’s had all year at Prime Minister’s Questions today. Unfortunately for him, it…
The Afghan asylum crime wave has to stop
On 22 July last year, in Nuneaton, a 12-year-old girl was playing on the swings. There she was spotted by…
