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Iran says no more attacks, as drone strike fails
Not a single drone or cruise missile sent from Iran made it to Israel last night. The combined air forces…
The sacking of Frank Skinner is a loss to British comedy
The recent news that comedian Frank Skinner had been sacked from his job at Absolute Radio after fifteen years as…
The real reason Ireland is going to recognise Palestine
When the Irish foreign minister Micheal Martin recently stood up and announced to the Dail that Ireland would officially recognise…
The West must stand behind Israel after Iran’s attack
Iran’s drone and missile attack on Israel is an escalation from the fiery but ultimately empty rhetoric we are used…
How will Israel respond to Iran’s attack?
Iran’s retaliatory attack, which Israel has been expecting since it killed Iranian commanders in Damascus on 1st April, has started…
Iran has struck back – but is it war?
When Israel assassinated a top commander in Iran’s Quds Force in Damascus a fortnight ago, it knew that Tehran would…
The Camille Paglia cult
There’s a specter floating inside the head of a certain type of young woman. It’s the fast-talking, sex-realist American academic…
Watch: Pro-indy filmmaker’s bizarre currency claim
Another day, another nationalist gaffe. This time it’s pro-indy filmmaker and columnist — for that august journal the National —…
Watches & Wonders had only a few truly wonderful timepieces
Every year, the world’s greatest watch companies and their biggest watch fans head to Geneva for an orgy of horological…
The unimaginable tragedy of the Sydney stabbing attack
Bondi Junction, in Sydney’s affluent eastern suburbs, is well known to many British backpackers and tourists. Close to the city’s…
Diane Abbott’s private school hypocrisy
Oh dear. It seems that the sage of Hackney has blundered once more. Having lost the Labour whip last year…
Representing O.J. Simpson was a mixed blessing
When I was first asked to join the O.J. defence team, I declined, because I had appeared on television and…
Germanophobia is growing in France
There was a time earlier this century when few politicians in France would dare criticise Germany. The country was the…
Putin wants to create an unliveable no man’s land in Ukraine
The residents of Velyka Pysarivka had almost finished renovating their municipal library. They laid the floor with large white tiles,…
JK Rowling and the Cass report reckoning
Boyish girls, climb the nearest tree and give a Tarzan whoop of victory – girly boys, fashion a floral crown…
Why academia failed to challenge trans ideology
Dr Hilary Cass’s long-awaited review into healthcare for transgender children and young people was released this week. Her verdict was…
The power of talking as thinking
The world’s greatest scientific building recently celebrated its 225th birthday. In 1799, a group of natural philosophers (the word ‘scientist’…
Post-Soviet hostels and loveless nights
I suppose there are people who stay in four or five-star hotels all their lives and become a kind of…
Rayner promises to quit if convicted
Angela Rayner has this evening announced that she would quit if convicted of breaking electoral law, saying: ‘If I committed…
Rishi Sunak loses another minister
Graham Stuart has this afternoon quit the government, saying he wishes to focus on local issues after service in various…
The Greens are embarrassing the SNP
For an image of the ‘progressive nationalism’ that has disfigured Scottish public life over the past decade, look no further…
The Bank of England can’t blame IT for its dodgy forecasts
It hires the cleverest young graduates every year. It brings in talent from around the world. And it has the…
Are we really reaching ‘farmaggedon’?
I happened to be walking in the Cambridgeshire fens this morning while listening to the latest instalment of ‘farmageddon’ –…
Never forget the politicians who pushed gender politics
The great trans hoax is coming to an end. The idea of thousands of people being ‘trapped’ in the wrong…
The courts can’t solve climate change
It was always a racing certainty that this week’s ‘Swiss grannies’ climate change judgment in Strasbourg would spawn a new wave of…
