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Watch: Douglas Murray eviscerates the case for historical apologies

5 July 2023 5:51 pm

As America celebrated 4th July yesterday, it appears not everyone over the pond was keen to celebrate the country’s Independence…

Drone strikes Russian military base near Moscow

5 July 2023 1:53 am

Just as Moscow was beginning to recover from the shock of Evgeniy Prigozhin’s march on the capital, the city has,…

Don’t condemn Israel for defending itself

5 July 2023 1:31 am

Car-rammings, shootings, stabbings and bombings targeting innocent men, women and children are a constant fear for Israelis. This morning, seven…

Why are high street banks teaming up with Stonewall?

5 July 2023 12:36 am

Pride month is over but my local bank still has its rainbow-striped window display firmly in place. The LGBTQ+ theme…

Rishi’s Tory rating turns negative

5 July 2023 12:28 am

As the average mortgage rate for a five-year fixed deal rises to 6 per cent, Rishi Sunak can find little…

Why did a police officer tell me I was ‘hot’?

5 July 2023 12:18 am

Poundbury in Dorset looked beautiful as it prepared for the King’s arrival. Gardeners were sprucing up flowers; painters were hurrying…

No soldier should have been above the law in Afghanistan 

5 July 2023 12:15 am

The public inquiry into alleged SAS war crimes in Afghanistan hears fresh evidence this week. Lawyers representing Afghan families argue…

The mortgage pain is going to get worse

4 July 2023 10:40 pm

When the average two-year fixed mortgage hit 6 per cent last month, panic started to set in. For the 1.3…

Will Threads tame Elon Musk’s Twitter?

4 July 2023 9:35 pm

We will need tighter regulation. We will need new laws and controls. And we will have to organise boycotts of…

Aussie cricketers have nothing to apologise for

4 July 2023 8:46 pm

The world of cricket suffers from an unjustified moral superiority complex. This explains the periodic howls of outrage when a…

Don’t be fooled by profiteering banks

4 July 2023 8:10 pm

What a handy distraction it makes for the banks to stand accused of closing down accounts held by Nigel Farage…

Secessionists seethe over the ‘Scottish coronation’ 

4 July 2023 8:00 pm

King Charles III is all set for his ‘Scottish coronation’ in Edinburgh tomorrow. Yet despite the royal fervour north of…

The worst excesses of the Saintly Reading Cult 

4 July 2023 7:37 pm

I read a lot of fiction. I always have. It’s not unusual for me to have three of four books…

When will the world wake up to the persecution of Nigerian Christians?

4 July 2023 7:30 pm

More Christians are killed in Nigeria for their faith than anywhere else in the world. Of the 5,621 people murdered…

Don’t deprive Americans of July 4 fireworks

4 July 2023 2:00 pm

The Fourth of July is an opportunity to reflect upon the miracle that is the founding of the United States,…

Joe Exotic’s presidential plans from prison

4 July 2023 1:21 pm

“So you have any advice for other presidential candidates who might end up in federal prison?” I ask Joseph “Exotic”…

US government had EcoHealth researching whether humans could give bats Covid

4 July 2023 6:55 am

During the height of the coronavirus, the Department of the Interior teamed up with a scandal-plagued nonprofit organization to investigate…

NPR says Asian Americans should love affirmative action

4 July 2023 5:25 am

NPR thinks Asian Americans should stand against the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action whether they like it or not. In…

The useful influencers of Shein

4 July 2023 3:33 am

The Soviets had a problem. On March 5, 1940, Stalin had given the order to massacre 14,700 Polish officers, which…

Parliamentary police officer purged every six months

4 July 2023 1:37 am

These days, the reputation of the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection (PaDP) Unit is at a low ebb, following the scandals…

Virginia Woolf doesn’t need a trigger warning

4 July 2023 1:08 am

Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Americans, apparently. Or at least that’s the conclusion Vintage US seems to have drawn. The…

The unedifying Yilin Wang vs British Museum row 

4 July 2023 12:05 am

If you visited the British Museum’s new exhibition China’s Hidden Century a fortnight ago, you’d have seen a substantial section on the revolutionary woman…

Bank of England: ‘any gender’ can be pregnant

3 July 2023 11:18 pm

Talk about getting your priorities right. As ministers battle to get inflation down from the double digit highs of earlier…

Red Wall MPs go up against Sunak on legal migration

3 July 2023 7:14 pm

Rishi Sunak is facing calls from the latest Tory caucus – ‘the New Conservatives’ – to take a series of…

Biden can’t ignore the Taliban’s terrorist links for ever

3 July 2023 6:39 pm

President Joe Biden is either not being briefed on what is going on in Afghanistan, or more likely choosing not…