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The SNP’s net zero hypocrisy
The Scottish nationalists are no stranger to hypocrisy, as their latest U-turn shows. For on Thursday afternoon the Yousaf regime…
Why the smoking ban exposes the ‘right side of history’ delusion
As a conservative non-smoker who in his youth was a libertarian twenty-a-day man, I can see both sides of the…
Russia is failing to undermine German morale on Ukraine
The news that German police have arrested two alleged Russian spies in Bavaria has understandably raised some alarm bells in…
Biden bookies’ 2024 favorite for first time in months
The betting market often provides different insights from traditional polling. While most polls presently have Donald Trump with a slight…
Nicola Sturgeon’s husband charged in SNP police probe
Peter Murrell, former chief executive of the SNP, has tonight been charged with embezzling money from his party. Murrell, the…
Why Giorgia Meloni is taking on Alfa Romeo
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s crusade to defend Italian excellence from the destructive side of globalisation has won a small…
Why did Swedish conservatives relax gender-change laws?
In the 2010s the main political dynamic inside western societies could be boiled down to simple left and right. Figures…
Is North Korea developing biological weapons?
The threat North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme poses to the world is well known. But as the hermit kingdom actively…
How NatCon Brussels was saved from censorship
When I was first scheduled to speak at this year’s National Conservatism conference (NatCon) in Brussels, I expected it to…
What the Mark Menzies scandal means for the Tories
You’ve got to feel for Rishi Sunak. He spends his days slaving around the clock to shave half a percentage…
Humza Yousaf could never realise Sturgeon’s fantasy climate plans
It was Cop26 in Glasgow and Nicola Sturgeon was in her element, posing for selfies with Greta Thunberg, David Attenborough…
Prince Harry ditches UK as primary residence
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Queen of Privacy never manage to keep out of the news for too…
Labour should think twice before taxing pensioners
Labour, according to Rachel Reeves, is now the party of low taxes. She has said she won’t raise income tax,…
It’s no surprise the SNP’s climate change law has failed
When Nicola Sturgeon unveiled the SNP’s climate change pledge in 2019, the First Minister boasted that Scotland had the ‘most…
Europe’s coffee houses are in trouble
There’s bad news for coffee fans: the price of your favourite beverage – which has already rocketed in recent years…
We need more Kemi Badenochs
On Tuesday, parliament voted for the first time on legislation to begin the phasing out of smoking (not just cigarettes,…
The tragedy of Emma Raducanu
It is hard not to feel a teeny weeny bit sorry for Emma Raducanu, who was hailed as the next…
Time is ticking to save Vladimir Kara-Murza
A year ago today, the Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza was jailed for 25 years – the longest sentence handed down…
The National Portrait Gallery’s bizarre obsession with slavery
We might have foreseen that the movement to radicalise the art and museum world would in time come back to…
Rishi gets witty at PMQs
Keir Starmer came to Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) with a spring in his step. He announced that he owned ‘a…
Sunak has no excuse to not proscribe the IRGC
Lord Renwick, the Labour peer and former Foreign Office mandarin, used to say that young diplomats of a certain breeding…
The Foreign Office is in trouble if David Lammy takes charge
The heart sinks at the latest thoughts espoused by David Lammy, the shadow foreign secretary, on a future Labour government’s…
Watch: Sunak ridicules Starmer over Rayner
The curious case of Angela Rayner’s tax affairs continues to drag on and Rishi Sunak isn’t prepared to let Sir…
Truss bestseller sold out on Amazon
She’s produced a bestseller! Liz Truss’s new book has been out for less than 72 hours and it’s already sold…
Inflation is down again – but don’t expect interest rates to follow suit
Interest rate cuts are beginning to look like a mirage: the closer we seem to get to them the more…
