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Fifa is in denial about the women’s World Cup
The women’s football World Cup will kick off in under 50 days’ time in Australia and New Zealand, and England…
It’s hard to take the BBC seriously
‘Why are you broadcasting what you’re broadcasting? There’s bigger things to worry about.’ In that respect at least, ‘Mizzy’ –…
What the campaign to abolish inheritance tax tells us about British politics
The Daily Telegraph, where I worked for a decade, has launched a campaign for the abolition of inheritance tax (IHT).…
Revealed: first Republican presidential debate requirements
The Republican National Committee today confirmed the criteria for presidential candidates to qualify for their first primary debate, which will…
Ukrainians are worried about the state of their bomb shelters
Russia fired more than 576 missiles and drones against Ukraine last month; Kyiv was shelled two days in three. Ukrainian…
Watch: Australians mock UK trade deal
Huzzah! The momentous day has arrived at last: finally Britain can reap the Brexit benefits and enjoy some delicious free-trade…
Who is Pride really for?
Towards the end of the first century AD, the Emperor Domitian rebranded the month of October as ‘Domitianus’. It will…
The problem with calculating climate-related excess deaths
Another week, another extravagant claim for climatic doom goes unchallenged. Speaking on the Today programme on Wednesday morning, Dale Vince…
The sinister side of making ‘misgendering’ a disciplinary offence
Should ‘misgendering’ someone be a disciplinary offence? One Oxford college seems to think so. Yesterday, Regent’s Park College posted a…
The rise of the independent watchmakers
Over the last four years, one of the biggest trends in watch collecting has been the rise of the “independents”…
Abolishing inheritance tax would be a mistake for the Tories
Liz Truss’ fallen star has been rising again of late (at least a few degrees above the horizon) as gilt…
Does Donald Trump have anything new to offer?
It’s no secret that I’m not a personal fan of former president Donald Trump – but through the years I…
Trans ideology and the triumph of feelings over fact
Most people who have been following the controversy over Kathleen Stock’s speech at the Oxford Union, and who have been…
Sunak’s absurd decision to sue the Covid inquiry judge
Thursday evening saw the extraordinary sight of a government suing a highly respected retired judge from our Court of Appeal,…
Macron has a point about Russian war crimes
French President Emmanuel Macron tends to rock the boat whenever he opens his mouth, saying hard truths that many of…
Watch: Biden falls over (again) at Air Force graduation
President Biden continues to project strength ahead of the 2024 election — by tumbling on stage at the US Air…
Las Vegas’s Mob Museum revels in the city’s gritty past
A generation or two is usually enough time for a family whose fortune may have been built upon a crime…
Cabinet Office to take the Covid inquiry to court
The Cabinet Office has tonight launched a last-ditch legal effort to avoid handing over Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApps to the official Covid…
Ben Roberts-Smith and the murky debate over accountability in war
Today in Sydney, Australia’s most decorated soldier, former Special Air Services corporal Ben Roberts-Smith VC, was found by a civil…
Scotland and England aren’t drifting apart
Are Scotland and England drifting inexorably apart? To find out if that’s true, at Our Scottish Future, we carried out…
Could falling house prices be here to stay?
Not for the first time, a gulf has opened up between house price indices. This morning, Nationwide reports that average…
The Tories need to get serious about the Blob
The government has paid a whacking out-of-court settlement of £100,000 to Anna Thomas, a whistleblower sacked after she tried to…
Could Russia try to assassinate British officials?
You only have to hear the words of Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian President and Vladimir Putin’s long term chief sidekick,…
Is Trump taking Hillary’s road to oblivion?
A few months back I asked a question of Donald Trump: does he know why he’s running to be president…
Immigration is an existential threat for Rishi Sunak
Rishi Sunak’s pet theory that voters are relaxed about the level of legal immigration – so long as the government…
