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A Green Christmas would be more awful than you could imagine
It is remarkable how a country can adjust to diminished expectations. Think of Japan post-Fukushima, or even post-war Britain under…
Stephen Flynn: Reform can learn from the SNP
Stephen Flynn’s Westminster group may consist of only nine MPs, but the SNP has still managed to make its mark…
Black Christmas and the battle for Hong Kong
The Peak is where the smart set in Hong Kong has always lived. It’s an area of relative peace and…
Country drivers are the real menace this Christmas
Driving home for Christmas? If you live in London you might well be a menace, according to research published by insurer…
In defence of nepo babies
What do Mary Shelley, John Stuart Mill and Tim Berners-Lee have in common? They’re all nepo babies, of course: weasels…
Is Labour’s ‘war on farmers’ cranking up a gear?
After a difficult year for No. 10, what better way to end it than by unveiling a nice package of…
What my cod’s roe saga reveals about British decline
If you want a miniature parable of British decline – a sort of Aesop’s fable for the age of the…
Nicki Minaj 2028?
Fresh off her appearance at the United Nations, where she spoke eloquently about the persecution of Christians in Nigeria, pop…
David Walliams’s children’s books were pure slop
Harper Collins announced last week that it would no longer be publishing any children’s books by their one-time cash cow…
The economic purge of the young white male
I can remember when I first realized that something strange was happening to white men in Hollywood. It was around…
How Britain can take on the Islamist threat
I am writing this article from abroad because I do not currently feel safe in Britain, the country of my…
Would promising to rejoin the EU save Labour?
Could Labour, under a new leader, go into the next election with a manifesto promising to start negotiations to rejoin…
How a late lunch can save Britain
Britain doesn’t have a productivity problem. We have a productivity mystery. The financial crisis was 17 years ago but still…
Bondi Beach and Australia’s failed multiculturalism
I knew two of the people murdered at Bondi Beach. That beach has always felt like Australia distilled: sun-bleached, open,…
It’s hard to take the Palestine Action hunger strikers seriously
The phrase ‘the silly led by the sinister’ was originally used by the late, singularly great Christopher Hitchens to describe…
What they don’t tell you about Christmas in New Zealand
‘I still think New Zealand the most beautiful country I have ever seen,’ Agatha Christie marvelled in 1922. Evidently she’s…
Death at Christmas
That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those…
Quebec is trying to ban Jesus from Christmas
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – but not, sadly, in Quebec. Or at least that’s what the provincial…
America is increasingly worried about free speech in the UK
Of the many political headaches Keir Starmer does not need right now, further American warnings that Britain is suppressing speech…
Banning trail hunting is part of Labour’s endless culture war
If you actually wanted to create a law that would genuinely transform animal welfare in the UK, the sane approach…
There’s nothing Christian about trapping people on benefits
What in Heaven’s name should we do about the benefit bill? And what on earth can be done about it? Both…
The Bazball experiment has failed
England’s cricketers have lost the Ashes, after being defeated in the third Test match in Adelaide by 82 runs. The…
What winning the Ashes means for Australia
This has been a week when Australia could no longer deny the dark stain of anti-Semitism on our national soul.…
My Christmas round robin
Happy Holidays, friends. Think about that word for a moment. Hold it in your sacred space. Surely that’s what the Holidays…
How sustainability stole Christmas
The glitz and glow of the Christmas period, from gently twinkling lights to the fireworks of New Year, is something…
