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The sad world of the online influencer
Walid Sharks is taking a nasty beating at the AO Arena in Manchester. It’s the second round of his fight against…
George Floyd was no martyr
To write that George Floyd died is to take a position. The received belief is that he was murdered – a murder bigger, in…
Russia is still very much a security threat inside the UK
At 1.30 p.m. on 7 September 1978, Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident and BBC journalist, approached a bus stop at the…
Who cares about the FA Cup?
The third round of the FA Cup, underway this weekend, is one of the highlights of the football calendar –…
The Reform party is just another Thatcherite redux
What exactly does the Reform party stand for? Helpfully, its leader Richard Tice gave a press conference on Wednesday at which he…
Biden’s phony January 6 memorialization
It’s fright month in Joe Biden’s America, folks. Today, January 5, the president will travel to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to…
Why the left poses a greater threat to American civic order
Over a leg of lamb, I joined five other expat Americans for Christmas. Our topic du jour was which faction in our…
The trouble with Armando Iannucci
Armando Iannucci is a bit of a mystery to me. With shows like The Day Today and The Thick of It, he created…
When will Rory Stewart’s time come?
Can a dose of moral earnestness revive Tory fortunes? This is the question raised by Rory Stewart’s recent memoir, Politics…
Oscar Pistorius should still be in prison
The murderer Oscar Pistorius was released from prison on parole today, more than a decade after shooting his girlfriend, Reeva…
Biden’s cynical attempt to memorialise 6 January
It’s fright month in Joe Biden’s America, folks. Today, 5 January, the US President will travel to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,…
Claudine Gay may be gone, but the issues on campus remain
Claudine, we hardly knew ye. Gay’s tenure atop Harvard was the shortest in that university’s history. Yet it was still…
In defence of ‘fat cat’ chief executives
Are chief executives overpaid? The High Pay Centre thinks so. Every January, it releases data showing the huge inequality between…
Sunak plays it safe with election announcement
Rishi Sunak is – not unusually – playing it safe by saying his ‘working assumption’ is that the election will…
When will Nigel Farage get off the fence?
Nigel Farage’s indecision continues. Despite being hyped in advance as a major unveiling of the rebel party’s programme, Reform UK’s…
Sunak says his ‘working assumption’ is no spring election
Rishi Sunak has this afternoon given his strongest hint yet that the next general election will be held in the…
The Epstein files heap fresh embarrassment on Prince Andrew
Four days in, and 2024 shows every sign of being yet another annus horribilis for Prince Andrew. After – by…
The families of IRA terrorists shouldn’t get compensation
In the period between Christmas and New Year archives in both Belfast and Dublin are opened and documents are declassified.…
The real reason junior doctors are striking
Any remaining question about who NHS strikes are supposed to benefit has been put to rest this week. Industrial action…
eBay side-hustlers deserve to get taxed
There will be people outraged by the latest initiative of HMRC: to demand that the likes of Airbnb, eBay, and…
Harvard’s Claudine Gay isn’t a victim of racism
A month ago, Claudine Gay of Harvard University was obsessed with putting things into context. Asked at that now infamous…
The Iran terror attack is embarrassing for the mullahs
Anyone who wants to strike at the heart of the Iranian regime would be hard-pressed for a more symbolic target…
Lessons from the removal of Harvard’s president
“This is not a decision I came to easily,” wrote disgraced former Harvard University President Claudine Gay of her resignation…
Claudine Gay was bad for Harvard, but Harvard is bad for the country
I advise you to have a bottle of Dramamine on hand before reading Claudine Gay’s nauseating missive announcing her resignation as president…
Did Richard Tice tease a return to politics for Nigel Farage?
Reform UK is the great enigma of right-wing British politics. Despite lacking a memorable name, leader, policy platform or record…
