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The Covid testing trap
We are in a time where money has lost meaning and value, so perhaps the £10 billion plus spent on…
It's time to ban puberty blockers for children
A ground-breaking case in the High Court will decide this week whether the UK’s only gender identity development service (GIDS)…
COVID-positive president won’t debate online
The droplets had barely settled after Wednesday’s vice presidential debate when next week’s head-to-head between Donald Trump and Joe Biden…
The collapse of the Cambridge Analytica conspiracy theory
So there you have it. Cambridge Analytica was ‘not involved’ in the 2016 EU referendum. The digital marketing firm that…
Kamala Harris forgot who she was debating
Perhaps Senator Kamala Harris would have performed better last night if she had remembered who she was debating. It was…
Could local lockdowns cost Boris Johnson the north?
When the lockdown tiers are announced, it is inevitable that huge swathes of the north will be under much tighter…
The conflict that could spark a war
History repeats itself — but sometimes in reverse. Only a pessimist would have predicted a global pandemic followed by a…
The terror threat inside our prisons
Later today, two men will be sentenced for their part in the attempted murder of a prison officer at high…
Why Harris vs Pence could be 2020’s most significant debate
‘Who am I? Why am I here?’ That was how Vice Admiral James Stockdale began the 1992 televised vice-presidential debate.…
What was missing from the vice presidential debate
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris is a former prosecutor. Vice President Mike Pence is a career politician. The debate between…
Pence takes Harris to the cleaners in VP debate
Vice President Mike Pence emerged from the 2020 vice presidential debate Wednesday night with a sound victory over challenger Sen.…
Here’s what to expect from VP Pence at tonight’s debate
Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris will square off in Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate in Salt Lake…
The hostages’ president
President Trump has tweeted that, among other things he’s best at, he is ‘the greatest hostage negotiator in the history…
Nicola Sturgeon's Covid prohibition
So now we know the threshold at which Nicola Sturgeon pulls the trigger. If the number of daily hospital admissions…
Our overstimulated president
Is Donald Trump feeling overstimulated? First he scorned stimulus talks with the Democrats, tweeting on Tuesday afternoon that he was…
Macron's fight with the far-left over extremism
Emmanuel Macron’s bold declaration last Friday that the Republic will eradicate Islamic extremism appeared to draw a swift response in…
Ministers close to closing northern pubs and restaurants
We are at a critical moment in the second surge of coronavirus. Ministers, scientists and officials are deeply concerned about…
The US election is Joe Biden’s to lose
Donald Trump is back at the White House after a scary three-day stay at the Walter Reed medical complex. For…
House Republicans accuse Democrats of ignoring censorship in Big Tech report
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are releasing their own report on Big Tech on Tuesday, countering a Democratic report…
It’s far too early to write off Donald Trump
Too many pundits are ready to call the 2020 presidential race with a month to go. Four weeks is a…
What does Boris Johnson's Tory party stand for?
The main thing to say about Boris Johnson’s speech at this year’s online Tory conference is that it captures the…
The media meltdown over Trump’s ‘Covita’ moment
What is Donald Trump’s greatest gift? Some say his finely honed instincts; others, his tabloid genius for publicity. But we…
The sinister Vatican plot against Cardinal Pell
Cardinal George Pell isn’t the sort of man to say ‘so there is a God after all!’ – but plenty…
The hypocritical oath
‘Please tell me you’re Republicans,’ President Ronald Reagan joked with his doctors as he headed into surgery after an assassination…
The hounding of a Scottish poet by trans activists
For a witch hunt to begin extremists must so dominate a movement any sin, however slight, becomes a heresy the…
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