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What Charles Darwin got wrong
Have you noticed that whenever the conversation turns to the subject of Charles Darwin, an extraordinary amount of dogmatism is…
Israel’s Rafah operation is tragically necessary
There is, as Ecclesiastes reminded us, a time for war and a time for peace. In its 76-year history, Israel…
Milei asks: who is Liz Truss?
Since coming to office in December, Javier Milei has won right-wing fans across the world for his bombastic rhetoric and…
Macron is deluded if he thinks he can persuade Xi to change
Try as he might Emmanuel Macron and his party are unable to arrest the popularity of the National Rally. A…
Will John Swinney end the SNP’s war on business?
Accepting the leadership of the SNP on Monday, John Swinney said his political priority as Scotland’s seventh First Minister would…
Greens embroiled in anti-Semitism row
Oh dear. The Green party is in hot water after it emerged that one of its newly-elected councillors labelled a…
What Rishi Sunak can learn from Gordon Brown’s golden mistake
Gordon Brown is a historian by education, so he might just appreciate the fickleness of posterity. Over a decade at…
Can Netanyahu afford to reject Hamas’s ceasefire deal?
A day after it seemed that a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel was all but dead, the terror group…
Why do the Japanese suck at English?
Tokyo, Japan “Shhh! Now on face to respectable great eels life.” How’s that for the first line of an article?…
Susan Hall’s defeat was avoidable
It didn’t have to end this way. In more than two decades of campaigning I never encountered a politician more…
Republicans are embracing the left’s victim culture over antisemitism
For years, Republicans have claimed that theirs is the party of free speech. They have correctly amplified instances of the…
Hamas is playing for time
Israeli, international and Hamas officials are currently awaiting the decision of Yahya Sinwar, the terror group’s military leader on a…
Israel is committed to fighting on in Rafah
As last week drew to a close, it seemed that the intense efforts of Egyptian and American mediators might result…
Draft dodgers are undermining Ukraine’s plea for help
Emmanuel Macron warned recently that Europe is in ‘mortal danger’. The French president said that Russia cannot be allowed to win…
Suella Braverman has made herself look silly
Did Suella Braverman run her latest op-ed by No. 10 for approval? That was the question asked at the end of…
Biden’s pause of weapons shipments to Israel is another misstep
President Biden just made a strong move against Israel, ordering the US government to stop shipping weapons supplies to the…
Aukus is becoming a potent alliance
Compare and contrast the frenetic, largely unwanted and unnecessary manoeuvres to create a common EU defence union, with the methodical,…
Why we should defend Nathan Cofnas’s academic freedom
After a controversial blog post he made earlier this year, the professional career of Dr Nathan Cofnas, a Leverhulme early-career research…
We know smartphones are harming girls – so why don’t we act?
This week a report by the Policy Exchange think tank found that children at secondary schools with a full phone ban in…
How North Korea uses cartoons to evade sanctions
Recently, it was reported that North Korean animators may have been working on cartoon projects for western firms, including Amazon…
Things look bleak for the Tories
Thursday’s local elections almost inevitably produced a cacophony of information. That presented the parties with plenty of opportunity to cherry…
Could Andy Street be a future Tory leader?
Andy Street was a political outsider when he was chosen as the Conservative party’s candidate for mayor of the new…
Suella Braverman: we will be lucky to have any Tory MPs soon
So, it didn’t take long for the recriminations to begin. After Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives were subject to a massive drubbing…
Ireland’s border policy is completely incoherent
Earlier this week, Ireland’s newly installed Taoiseach, Simon Harris, made an outrageous proposal to deploy 100 policemen to control immigration…
Why are BBC staff trying to get me fired?
It’s not a pleasant feeling to know there are colleagues in your workplace who think you should be summarily dismissed…
