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The flaw in Boris's levelling up agenda
Regional agencies pumping money into research and development. Targets for education and healthcare. Another layer of meddling local government, and…
Boris Johnson’s position is still uncertain
Since the publication of Sue Gray’s update on partygate a trickle of letters of no confidence have been sent to…
Levelling up: don't copy the Germans
‘Germany has succeeded in levelling up where we have not,’ Boris Johnson claimed back in July last year, when talk…
Boris Johnson's fightback has been cut short
Tobias Ellwood, the chair of the defence select committee, has this morning announced that he is sending a letter to…
Boris is dragging the Tories down with him
Tories occasionally like to pretend that they are not wasting their talents and lives defending a bottom-feeding demagogue. They lecture…
Exclusive: House Democrat says no snacks for the unvaxxed
Congresswoman Terri Sewell hasn’t been deterred by court injunctions against President Biden’s vaccine mandates; instead, the Democratic representative for Alabama’s…
Five ways Boris might save his premiership
Boris Johnson doesn’t even like parties, by all accounts. He prefers to be left alone with women. Yet parties are…
Sending a mean tweet about Captain Tom shouldn't be a crime
Captain Tom Moore captured the nation’s hearts during the pandemic. The World War II officer completed 100 lengths of his…
Why should we listen to celebrities over Joe Rogan?
I’m boycotting Spotify. I am doing this for the same reason as I don’t have a Netflix subscription: I refuse…
Boris must go!
Conservative sympathisers, Conservative voters and Conservative parliamentarians have a simple choice to make this week. Do they stand by a…
Whoopi Goldberg and the problem with progressive America
The Holocaust wasn’t about race because Jews are white. This is the through-the-looking-glass position in which progressive America now finds…
Pakistan's Christians are living in terror
A Christian priest was shot dead by gunmen in Pakistan’s Peshawar town on Sunday. Pastor William Siraj was gunned down…
Did Keir Starmer fail to prosecute Jimmy Savile?
One of the stranger moments of yesterday’s drama in the House of Commons, following the release of the Sue Gray…
Is Boris really serious about Brexit?
As the partygate furore rages on, Boris Johnson is retreating towards familiar territory: Brexit. A policy blitz is underway this…
The failed attempt to 'deradicalise' Germany's AfD
Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has lost its third chair in nine years. Jörg Meuthen is the latest to…
Covid has shattered France’s commitment to liberty
It is a peculiarity of how France has responded to the Covid pandemic that the unvaccinated, or those who have…
Canada should be proud of the truckers’ convoy
The first wave of truckers in the Freedom Convoy arrived in Ottawa on Friday, having travelled across Canada to protest…
Johnson faces a mauling from his own MPs
Ahead of the publication of Sue Gray’s report into partygate, there had been talk that the police investigation — which…
Johnson's defence deteriorates
That Boris Johnson regards the Gray update as an opportunity to come up for air was very clear from his…
Are Kamala Harris's days as Veep numbered?
President Joe Biden promised last week to nominate the first black woman to the Supreme Court. ‘Long overdue,’ he says.…
America’s control over the international system is slipping
The US-led expansion of NATO in the direction of the Russian border took place when America was at the peak…
Boris Johnson's future is now in the hands of the police
The power of Sue Gray’s ‘update’ of her investigation into parties at 10 Downing Street and the Cabinet Office is as…
Five unanswered questions from Sue Gray's report
At long last, it’s finally here. This afternoon’s release of Sue Gray’s report into the Downing Street parties marks the…
The Sue Gray report: what happens next?
It is Tory MPs who hold Boris Johnson’s fate in their hands. The key question now is how do those…
A Graywash? Downing Street party report is merely an ‘update'
Sue Gray’s report on the lockdown partying in Downing Street is short. Just 11 pages. Early on, it makes clear…
