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Why legacy students aren’t a civil rights issue
I just caught the news that four pages in a notebook dated 2014 and stuffed into a couch cushion have…
Boris: Get Ukraine into Nato ASAP
Boris Johnson’s post-premiership crusade continues. The former PM has today attacked Nato for being too soft on Ukraine’s accession. The…
Zelensky was right to feel cheated by Nato
Gitanas Nauseda stood outside his palace and checked his watch. The Lithuanian President’s guests – the leaders of the other…
Ex-BBC presenters close ranks around Huw Edwards
In the days since the Huw Edwards scandal broke, the television broadcaster’s wife has been praised for a dignified statement…
Have we seen the last of the Wagner Group?
Three weeks after marching on Moscow, the Wagner Group has seemingly been withdrawn from the battlefield in Ukraine, according to…
Where did it all go so wrong for Emmanuel Macron?
It is Bastille day in France but few people are in the mood for festivities. The riots of a fortnight…
The BBC has serious questions to answer over Huw Edwards
Huw Edwards is in hospital. That shocking news, in a statement from his wife, Vicky Flind, delivered an icy blast…
Moscow’s Pyrrhic Nato victory
Despite the inevitable and performative expressions of anger, regret and dismay following this week’s Nato summit, Moscow feels it has…
Would road pricing be fair?
Sometimes there is a problem so glaring that you wonder why no one is addressing it. Sooner or later, the…
There is not much for Macron to celebrate on this Bastille Day
In January this year, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak outlined his five priorities for Britain against a hazy timetable. Meanwhile in…
Road trips out of Lisbon: a slice of tranquilidade
Forget Barcelona. Say sayonara to San Fran. And so long, London. Post-Covid, Lisbon has become a hub for the creative,…
Britain’s China policy has been completely demolished
China is engaged in a ‘whole of state’ assault on the UK and the government’s approach has been ‘completely inadequate’.…
The Orange order risks damaging the cause for Irish unionism
Another year and another July has come round where viewers in the UK have been treated to the sight of…
Rishi’s pledge to grow the economy isn’t going well
The economy contracted by 0.1 per cent in May – down by 0.4 per cent compared to May 2022. But…
The cruelty of a trans beauty queen
BeKind is one of the Great Icks – to use the vivid word so beloved of Love Islanders – of…
Will anyone be held accountable for the Zephaniah McLeod attack?
A report, just published by the NHS, is a stark 171-page indictment of our protective services. The investigation details the…
Huw Edwards named by wife as BBC presenter at centre of scandal
After five days of speculation, Huw Edwards has today been named as the BBC star at the centre of allegations…
Should Ukraine show more ‘gratitude’?
Ben Wallace thinks Ukraine needs to be careful. The West has used a whole load of political energy this week…
This week’s Nato summit will embolden Putin
The Nato summit in Vilnius has not helped Ukraine. Rather than facilitating the country’s swift accession into Nato, the alliance…
Notre Dame’s professor of Sesame Street sues student journalists for ‘defamation’
Never trust a scholar of Sesame Street to know her legal terminology. Tamara Kay, a sociology professor at Notre Dame…
Should people with big gardens pay more for their water?
According to Cathryn Ross, Thames Water’s co-interim chief executive, householders with large gardens should be paying a higher price for…
Road-trip picnics are a casualty of our interstate system
Signs announcing roadside picnic tables once peppered America’s secondary roads and highways. Or so we call those byways now. Before…
Britain should place a big bet on the petrol engine
Ministers should be hailing it as a major vote of confidence in the economy. King Charles should be clearing his…
In praise of Milan Kundera
The Czech-born writer Milan Kundera has died, at the age of 94. Four years ago, Toby Young wrote this tribute…
It’s time the SNP was honest about EU membership
There’s a school of thought that, since Scotland isn’t likely to become independent anytime soon, interrogating the SNP’s claims about…
