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Why is it so hard for Britain to control inflation?
We are not leading the world in deregulation, or in creating new ‘green industries’. We certainly don’t lead in tax-cutting,…
Inflation falls to 10.1% – but is still at a 40-year high
Inflation remains at near a 40-year high – but finally, we’re starting to see some signs of good news. This…
Labour gets its house in order
After 839 days, the Labour party has today been let out of special measures by the equalities watchdog over its…
Could Turkey’s earthquake bring down president Erdogan?
Turkey is now wrestling with shock and grief and with the dawning realisation of just how large a task it…
Israel is running out of time to stop an Intifada
How does Israel contain Palestinian terrorism without provoking the third Intifada? Recent weeks have seen the largest escalation in violence between Israel…
In praise of meat-free Fridays for Lent
The bishop of Norwich, the Right Reverend Graham Usher, has suggested that Anglicans might like to abstain from eating meat…
The virtues of American ‘nation-building’
Newly minted senator JD Vance of Ohio has wasted no time in extolling the virtues of a soft isolationist foreign…
Solar farms and the trouble with net zero
Say it quietly, especially when there’s a Green listening: but there’s one certainty about Net Zero 2050. It won’t happen.…
Europe’s centre of gravity is shifting towards Poland
The President of the United States of America flies into Poland this month. Not to Germany or France or even…
Rape in a relationship is the last taboo
The charges against Mason Greenwood, the Manchester United footballer who was accused of assault and attempted rape, have been dropped.…
Syrian earthquake survivors are being scapegoated in Turkey
It’s been over a week since the devastating twin earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria and the death toll continues to…
Why no one wants a Ford Fiesta anymore
The world of business has long been creative with feeble excuses. Even so, the explanation given by Tim Slatter, chairman…
Britain’s absent workers are slowly being lured back into employment
The latest labour market update – published by the Office for National Statistics this morning – looks a lot like…
What UEFA won’t tell you about the Stade de France fiasco
UEFA has published its independent review into the chaotic Champions League final last May and it is brutally honest in…
The spies never really went away
The news headlines this week brought a warm glow of nostalgia to anyone brought up during the 20th century’s Cold…
Enes Kanter Freedom on LeBron, Erdoğan and the earthquake
Basketball player and human rights activist Enes Kanter Freedom was invited as Leader Kevin McCarthy’s guest of honor to the…
How Russia is weathering the storm of Western sanctions
After war broke out in Ukraine a year ago, amidst a slew of shop closures, sanctioned products and predictions about…
What’s behind the secret Brexit summit?
Is there a plot to unravel Brexit? Tory Eurosceptics are asking this question after the Observer published details over the…
Will Lula’s Brazil turn away from the West?
Joe Biden has promised to bring Brazil and America closer together. ‘Both of our democracies have been tested of late’,…
The truth slips out about Justin Trudeau’s euthanasia regime
Two cheers for a brief hiatus in the Canadian stampede towards suicide for all. Earlier this month, David Lametti, Justin…
Is Brexit really costing households £1,000 each?
They never give up, those Remainers. Like the Japanese soldier found on a Pacific island still fighting the second world…
Who really owns Britain’s waterways?
Stop press: Fleet Street is officially full of sewage. Flicking through the papers this morning, Steerpike was intrigued to see…
Do face masks work?
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, international agencies, national governments, and local public health departments claimed that their policies followed ‘the science’.…
Has Macron turned France into America’s poodle?
A notable feature of how the French public view the war in Ukraine is that the strongest support for its…
It’s time for ‘reality-based’ politicians to start addressing Brexit
Praise be. A day or two ago, something potentially quite exciting took place in Ditchley Park in Oxfordshire. It was a two-day…
