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Ringing in the Chinese New Year with homemade dim sum
My husband and I live in a rural village about an hour from London. The nearest grocery store is a…
The Tories’ childcare plans aren’t grounded in reality
Of all the reasons why the Conservatives deserve to lose the next general election, their nonsensical childcare policy is among…
Sunak’s Rwanda plan suffers first Lords defeat
Just last week Rishi Sunak held a special Downing Street press conference to warn peers not to ignore ‘the will…
Why the Tories should think twice about pre-election tax cuts
Are Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak asking the right question as they approach the spring Budget? For the Chancellor and…
Why is Zelensky echoing Putin’s rhetoric?
Today is Ukraine’s Day of Unity which necessarily had to be marked with an expression of national pride. However, president…
Why is measles on the rise?
Having endured months of restrictions on our freedoms to deal with Covid-19, we now face a major health threat entirely…
Will Nikki Haley pull out on Wednesday?
New Hampshire votes tomorrow and today Nikki Haley has just two planned events. She has a morning meet-and-greet in the…
Starmer is wrong to defend the National Trust
Keir Starmer is drawing up his battle-lines for the next election. First, he came for the public schools, pledging to…
France’s protesting farmers have spooked Emmanuel Macron
The farmers of France are mobilising. Their anger will be an early test for Gabriel Attal; the countryside is unknown…
What Katharine Birbalsingh gets wrong about secularism
Katharine Birbalsingh is back in the papers again. The head teacher at Michaela, a free school whose outstanding academic record and…
How will ‘ceasefire’ calls affect the Democratic primary in New Hampshire?
Manchester, New Hampshire The Republican and Democratic primaries in New Hampshire are two sides of the same coin. New polls…
Ron DeSantis’s cursed campaign
Ron DeSantis’ political action committee is called ‘Never Back Down.’ Well, he just did. A week ago, he said of…
Shapps: Netanyahu’s rejection of a two-state solution is ‘very disappointing’
On a call with Joe Biden this weekend, the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated Israel’s demand for security control…
Can we trust Hunt’s tax cut promise?
More tax cuts are on their way, according to the both the Prime Minister and Chancellor who have written comment…
Israel can’t win in Gaza anymore
The first and most important principle of war for any military campaign is the selection and maintenance of ‘the aim’.…
Katharine Birbalsingh and France’s own secularism battle
The row that has erupted at Katharine Birbalsingh’s Michaela school in north London highlights the difference in how Britain and…
We still live in Lenin’s world
Today is the centenary of Vladimir Lenin’s death. His Moscow funeral was marked by official communist solemnity, as if a…
Did ‘shallow Christianity’ help the Nazis rise to power?
‘Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison,’ C.S. Lewis famously said.…
AI just changed the world. Again
Argentine President Javier Milei’s recent speech, to the World Economic Forum in Davos, has caused a stir for several reasons.…
The fall of Nikki Haley’s comet
In the waning days of 2023, the last weeks of the before-time — the moments before the Republican Party would…
Despite three years in prison, Navalny still scares Putin
The March presidential elections in Russia will, of course, be a stage-managed farce, but that doesn’t mean that real politics…
Was the Post Office’s Horizon software used to wrongly convict a man of murder?
Robin Garbutt, the postmaster who lived above the village shop with his wife, Diana, was a popular figure in Melsonby,…
How Australia became obsessed with land acknowledgments
If you attend almost any public meeting or event in Australia these days, you’ll be greeted – some would say…
How Israel is failed by its war of words
Sitting in a room at the Israel Defence Forces’ Hakirya base in Tel Aviv, I listened – along with a…
Nikki Haley says being Trump’s vice president is ‘off the table’
The theory that Donald Trump will pick Nikki Haley as his vice president refuses to die – in spite of…
