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How NPR became a national laughing stock
The smug world of public radio in the United States received a smart slap in the face last week. It…
Dear Britain, please take Prince Harry back
In the annals of recent royal history, few narratives have unfolded with as much drama and tumult as the saga…
Jon Sopel’s Rwanda Bill blunder
It’s hard these days being a teller of truths. So many of the leading lights in British broadcasting have found…
Why Biden’s plan to sanction an IDF battalion could backfire
The Biden administration is planning to announce sanctions against a part of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). On the one…
Parliamentary researcher charged with spying for China
Chris Cash, the parliamentary aide accused of spying for China, is to be charged with espionage offences, the Crown Prosecution…
Desperate manufacturers are struggling to shift electric cars
By 2024, UBS confidently predicted in a October 2020 report, the cost of manufacturing an electric car would have fallen…
Suella Braverman is wrong to call for Mark Rowley to go
Why did Gideon Falter cross the road? Or try to? That is a question that went viral this weekend. A…
Why is Russia jamming plane signals across Europe?
The ‘Baltic Beast’ is at it again. Mysterious – or not so mysterious – GPS signal disruption has become a…
Sunak insists Rwanda scheme is ‘ready’
The Rwanda Bill should become law today – and the government is ready for when it does. That was Rishi…
How Sweden fell again for transgender madness
When it comes to the transgender issue, Sweden sobered up earlier than many other countries. Paediatricians have pleaded with politicians…
Will there be a summer election?
It’s less than a fortnight till the local elections where Rishi Sunak will face his last major electoral test before…
Why won’t the Scottish Greens accept the Cass report?
There are many words to describe Patrick Harvie but ‘clinician’ certainly isn’t one of them. Yet his trademark arrogance was…
Is there any way back for the Met Police?
‘You are quite openly Jewish, this is a pro-Palestinian march, I’m not accusing you of anything but I’m worried about…
After TikTok, there’s another app we should ban
The American House of Representatives has passed a bill ordering Bytedance, a Chinese company, to divest from TikTok or stop…
The underrated charm of minor-league hockey
I live outside Pittsburgh, home to fans who bleed the black and gold of the Steelers, Penguins and Pirates (OK,…
USC’s suppression of the anti-Israel valedictorian is unacceptable
University of Southern California’s 2024 valedictorian, Asna Tabassum, will not be allowed to deliver a speech at the university’s commencement…
Donald Trump’s U-turn could vindicate his Tory enthusiasts
Better late than never. In Washington, the House of Representatives last night voted to approve £49 billion funding in aid…
The Met doesn’t care about anti-Semitism
We’re familiar by now with the peculiar paradox of left-wingers and feminists, those weird well-born women who would scream blue…
Richard Dawkins: in defence of scientific truth
When we meet in the House of Lords, Professor Richard Dawkins has just addressed a cross-party parliamentary gathering of politicians and…
The US war aid might be too little, too late for Ukraine
At the last possible moment, after months of prevarication and with Russian troops on the brink of a major breakthrough…
Are smartphones really destroying the mental health of a generation?
If you want to make your name in psychiatry, find a problem, identify a plausible one-factor solution, and then offer…
Why a Labour super-majority is unlikely
In economic, there is a phenomenon known as ‘automatic stabilisers’, which kick in at the onset of a recession. Without…
Wartime Budapest was a haven, then a hell, for Europe’s Jews
One day in May 1944, in the Nagyvárad ghetto, Sándor Leitner saw an elderly man struggling to walk towards him.…
Australia is in danger of tearing itself apart
In her new book, Liz Truss says she likes Australia and Australians. The country is, she says, ‘like Britain without…
At Columbia… that’s all, folx!
Undoubtedly the best moment in the testimony of Minouche Shafik, the President Columbia University, before the House Committee on Education…
