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The pension triple lock is a drain on the taxpayer
Jeremy Hunt’s promise that the Conservative manifesto will protect the ‘triple lock’ on the state pension is a desperate measure…
Will the slimmed-down monarchy cope without Kate and the King?
The reaction to the Princess of Wales’s courageous and affecting video, in which she discussed her cancer diagnosis, was largely…
How Islamic State rose from the ashes to attack Moscow
Since America’s disastrous scuttle from Kabul in August 2021, there had been rising concern that Afghanistan would once again become…
The SNP’s star economist eviscerates the case for independence
He’s only gone and done it again. Mark Blyth, born in Dundee but now professor of international economics at the…
Why bullies win
Remember when Friends Reunited was a thing? Twenty-something years ago, before Facebook even existed, this primaeval social networking site connecting…
Keir Starmer should think twice before shunning Marine Le Pen
Riding high in the polls with a 20-point lead, the Labour party is preparing for government. Across the Channel with…
The real problem with Jonathan Glazer
Every year the Oscars unleashes some kind of political controversy, and this year’s revolves around Jonathan Glazer’s speech denouncing Israel. Glazer, the…
Why did the SNP make allowances for Spain during Covid?
The Covid Inquiry’s recent Scottish sojourn brought several weeks of bad headlines for the SNP. One revelation got less attention…
Will Sunak renege on ‘foreign powers’ owning newspapers?
Last week, a rebellion in the Lords drew a government pledge to ban foreign governments and their proxies from owning…
Will Biden change his Venezuela approach?
Venezuela has been leading the United States on, maintaining the pretense that they will ensure that the upcoming presidential elections…
The West must wake up to the threat of Islamic State-Khorasan
It is time to wake up to the growing international threat posed by Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K), the group believed to…
Hunt: Tories will keep the triple lock on pensions
Jeremy Hunt: Russian government creating a ‘smokescreen of propaganda’ On Friday night, a terrorist attack at a large concert in…
Jon Sopel joins the Garrick Club
Tough times for the Garrick Club, after the embarrassing leak of its membership list to the Guardian. Following the newspaper’s…
How Brigitte Macron captured the Elysée
As Emmanuel Macron approaches the end of the second year since his re-election, his presidency seems to have become a…
Could corruption bring down Spain’s government again?
Just four months into its second term, Spain’s Socialist-led government is already mired in corruption allegations. The latest scandal emerged…
Don’t blame health and safety for killing the Harry Potter steam train
When the operators of the most popular steam train service in Britain decided to challenge the safety authorities, they were…
Can Macron halt the ‘Mexicanisation’ of France?
Emmanuel Macron showed off his virility this week with the release of two photos in which he is seen giving…
Is London the ‘most anti-Semitic city in the West’?
The last time I saw Amichai Chikli, he was struggling to put on a suit jacket at the Israeli embassy…
Putin is as deluded about the Islamist threat as the West
From the outset it was obvious to seasoned observers who massacred more than 130 Russians at a concert hall Moscow…
The hounding of Kate was a new low for Britain
Shame on the ghouls who spread lies and rumours about the Princess of Wales. And the idiot conspiracy theorists who…
Who will Putin blame for the terror attack?
A branch of the Islamic State terror group, Isis-K, has claimed responsibility for last night’s stadium terror attack in Moscow.…
Cameron is wrong to threaten Israel with an arms embargo
Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Cameron is threatening to suspend arms sales to Israel. The Telegraph reports that the former prime…
Kate’s critics should be ashamed of themselves
Who is this speaking with a sneer on their lips and contempt in their voice before news of the Princess of Wales’s…
What happened to the post-Brexit free trade deals?
When people talk about the ways the Conservatives have squandered this parliament, and with it their first and best opportunity…
Where did it all go wrong for Brazil’s football team?
When England play Brazil in a friendly at Wembley tonight they will go into the game as firm favourites to…
