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When will the Department for Education get a grip on its transgender guidance?
Who’s running the show on trans and gender? Elected ministers? Or an activist civil service? A publication put out by…
Why Boris’s critics might regret celebrating his downfall
Imagine a Tory prime minister who gave the liberal left almost everything that it wanted. Higher migration? Sure, let’s treble…
Boris’s big column backfires
Boris! Boris! Boris! For a week now, the cry has been incessant among our national media. Liberated from his parliamentary…
Is this Wickes’s Gerald Ratner moment?
Big businesses are increasingly torn between activist leadership and a customer base that just wants to stump up its cash…
Biden’s age and Trump’s legal problems are inescapable
For all the vagaries of presidential contests, we know two things about 2024: Joe Biden’s age and Donald Trump’s legal…
Did France invent cricket?
As the First Ashes Test begins at Edgbaston it is fitting to recall England’s oldest cricket adversary: France. The Marylebone…
Full list: how will Tory MPs vote on the partygate report?
On Monday, MPs will get the chance to debate and vote on the Privileges Committee report on Boris Johnson. This…
Readers of Ulysses have a right to be smug
Happy Bloomsday everybody. Today, 16 June, is the day on which the events of James Joyce’s epic novel, Ulysses, is set…
Is France finally changing its tune on Brexit?
The waiters can sometimes be a little surly. That holiday villa you booked in the Loire may not always be…
Even Spotify has tired of Meghan and Harry’s repetitive schtick
As Oscar Wilde said of the death of Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not…
Boris gets a Mail column
It’s bad news for Rishi Sunak on the front page of the Daily Mail. No, not the splash about a…
I’m backing RFK Jr.
In the spring of 2021, I was barred from attending the remainder of my graduate school program at NYU for…
Why Biden 2024 is no sure bet
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not an intimidating political opponent. Or at least not on the surface. Yes, he is…
A guide to Basel’s artistic delights
Standing on the quayside beside the River Rhine, gazing at the happy teenagers swimming in the dark water down below,…
The troubling truth about Boris’s partygate inquisition
There is something faintly ridiculous about the Privileges Committee’s report on partygate. Sixteen pages in, you encounter the following sentence:…
Boris Johnson took us for fools. Now we have proof
No one wants to talk about the pandemic anymore. Not even partygate. Understandably so: we’ve all put hard work into…
Let’s not follow Boris down his path as ‘Britain’s Trump’
The Commons privileges committee report into the conduct of Boris Johnson is completely damning. All the kerfuffle about whether the…
Three things we’ve learned from the Partygate report
The Privileges Committee has today published its findings on whether Boris Johnson deliberately misled MPs over Partygate. The House of…
Full text: Boris Johnson’s response to the Privileges Committee’s report
This morning the Privileges Committee published their findings of their investigation into Boris Johnson’s conduct in the wake of the…
The partygate report is damning for Boris Johnson
The Privileges Committee has published its report on whether Boris Johnson deliberately misled parliament over partygate. It is damning. The…
Putin is lining up a lengthy list of scapegoats for his war
Lately Vladimir Putin has been strikingly unwilling to subject himself to any serious debate about his war in Ukraine. On…
Could cutting inheritance tax keep the Tories in power?
Is cutting, or abolishing, inheritance tax the key to keeping the Tories in power? Inheritance tax is certainly unpopular and…
Cormac McCarthy is gone – but his works remain brilliantly alive
Until yesterday afternoon, Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. (better known to readers as Cormac) was the greatest living American writer –…
Britain must not import America’s abortion culture war
British politicians tend to avoid the issue of abortion. The subject divides America bitterly, yet Britain has opted for consensus.…
The visionary madness of Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi, whose state funeral will take place today in Milan, was the first modern populist. The media tycoon became a politician to take…
