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Bulgarian Tsar: why the West is not in decline
Bulgaria has rarely been the master of its own fate. Throughout history, neighbouring powers have often succeeded in imposing their…
Will Iran attack Israel?
The Middle East is bracing for an attack whose exact source, targets, method, timing and scope are unknown. On Monday,…
Despite Russia’s intensifying attacks, Kharkiv carries on
Irina Kotenko, 53, was already awake when a Russian drone crashed into the roof of her three-story building at 1…
Scotland’s police at ‘breaking point’ over hate law
Oh dear. As the furore around Scotland’s Hate Crime Act extends into its sixth day, there are now fears about…
How likely is Putin to target the Paris Olympics?
One thing the French seem to be learning (or, given their history, re-learning) is that the Russians are always up…
How Syria collapsed
In April 2018 I was taken on a coach through miles of war-wasted urban landscape in the Syrian cities of…
Who’s to blame for Scotland’s ferry fiasco?
You wait eight-and-a-half years for someone to lose their job over the SNP’s ferries fiasco, then two sackings come at…
Euthanasia is too cruel to doctors
It seems like every day there is a new push to legalise euthanasia in the UK. This week, Prue Leith…
No, prison sentences aren’t going soft
In 1894 Maria Hermann, an Austrian-born prostitute stood trial at the Old Bailey for the murder of a client. The…
The Tories are resigned to an almighty defeat
The herd of Conservative MPs is on the move again, this time obediently setting off towards the abattoir in which…
The curiously quiet reaction to Oppenheimer in Japan
Finally, eight months after its US premiere and a month after it triumphed at the Oscars, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has…
The recklessness of William Wragg
Everyone makes mistakes, but they are seldom as monumental as William Wragg’s. The Tory MP has admitted handing over the…
Why is Putin still blaming Ukraine for the Moscow terror attack?
In the fortnight since four Isis gunmen stormed Crocus City Hall in the Moscow suburbs, Vladimir Putin has done his…
The plot to stop Marine Le Pen could backfire badly
At first, French elites haughtily dismissed the Rassemblement National (RN) and its voters. Then they were in denial about its…
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act may have done us all a favour
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act (HCA) has, by common agreement, been an unmitigated disaster. Less than a week old, there are…
Civil servants can’t down tools if they don’t like Israel
Britain in the nineteenth century pioneered the idea of the professional, impartial civil service independent of politics. In the twenty-first,…
Should the UK impose an arms embargo on Israel?
Yesterday, a letter from 600 legal experts, including four former Supreme Court judges, was published, arguing that the UK government should impose…
Will Netanyahu take Biden’s ceasefire ultimatum seriously?
When Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that he had a ‘good’ talk with American president Joe Biden on Thursday,…
France’s schools are succumbing to the Islamist threat
A 13-year-old Muslim girl was beaten unconscious outside her school gates in Montpellier in southern France on Tuesday. Her mother…
Botswana’s President: elephant hunting isn’t cruel, it’s necessary
Last month, Botswana’s Minister for Environment and Tourism Dumezweni Mthimkhulu threatened to send 10,000 elephants to Hyde Park. This week,…
Netflix’s Scoop is a reminder of the Prince Andrew problem
If the royals weren’t going through enough problems at the moment, another one is about to be added in the…
Listen: David Cameron refuses to answer Gaza questions
After the tragic news of the deaths of three British aid workers, killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza, both…
Scrapping Ofsted would suit teachers – but be terrible for children
There is one thing that seems to have gone missing from the campaign by the National Education Union (NEU) to…
The secret history of the school choice left
Because teachers’ unions play such an important role in today’s Democratic Party, it is widely assumed that school choice —…
Rishi Sunak’s empty human rights threat
Is there anyone in Britain who believes that Rishi Sunak will take us out of the European Convention on Human…
