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Cambridge Footlights launch ‘sensitivity reading’ service
Here’s something that will make John Cleese splutter on his cornflakes. The Cambridge Footlights – whose alumni include Peter Cook,…
The myth of the beautiful green belt
What a nonsense debate the fight over the green belt has become. Today Keir Starmer has been – rightly –…
The ‘marking boycott’ is yet another betrayal for students
Students have had a rough deal over the past years. They’ve had their degrees interrupted by Covid and teaching strikes,…
Will Rishi Sunak admit the truth about Net Zero?
Grant Shapps, the energy secretary, popped up on television at the weekend to explain that the cost of installing a…
How Keir Starmer plans to snatch the centre ground from the Tories
Tories have spent the week giving speeches about what it means to be a conservative at the National Conservatism conference…
Nat Con won’t save conservatives
Nat Con is the talk of Twitter, a dubious accomplishment for any movement seeking popular relevance. Progressives are having a…
Starmer’s savvy Brexit position
Keir Starmer has made the anodyne demand that Britain seek a ‘closer trading agreement’ with the EU. But why doesn’t…
Meghan’s lecture on ‘service’ is hard to take
Since the publication of Prince Harry’s memoir Spare in January, Meghan has kept an unusually low profile by her standards.…
Suella Braverman is making Rishi Sunak look weak
The National Conservatism conference is entering its third day in London, and has managed to grab more headlines than the…
Keir Starmer’s housing pledge has trapped the Tories
Sir Keir Starmer has broken cover on planning. In perhaps his most daring policy announcement so far, he has declared…
Truss in Taiwan warns of new Cold War with China
Liz Truss is in Taiwan this week, urging the West to take a stronger stance against China. Her message is clear:…
Danny Kruger is right: marriage is the bedrock of society
It didn’t take long for Danny Kruger to get jumped on for stating the obvious. His observation yesterday that ‘The…
The Lincoln Project tries to Bud Light Dr. Pepper
The Lincoln Project, a disgraced PAC launched in 2019 “to defeat Donald Trump at the ballot box” and “to ensure…
Why are the Nat Cons so serious?
The problem with socialism, the saying goes, is that it takes up too many evenings. Well, the National Conservatism conference,…
Courtcore: why the right outfit is as important as a good lawyer
When the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird came out in 1962, America was captivated. In part it was because of…
Umbria: Italy’s underrated gem
Nestled in the Apennine Mountains due east of Rome is the region of Umbria, a hidden gem at the heart…
John Durham exposes the whole anti-Trump caper
Well, well, well. That is to say, I told you so. Finally, at last, it was about time, scary-looking special counsel John…
AI could render Tinder and Hinge redundant
The world is home to 7.8 billion people. Roughly one in fourteen of these people (530 million) are on Tinder.…
Britain is becoming Brussels on Thames
Whatever happened to Singapore on Thames? Weren’t we, after leaving the EU, supposed to be forging a future as a…
How the Conservatives can win again
There is a tension at the heart of conservative thinking today – one that the Conservative party must address if…
Should we ignore Putin’s criticism of the West?
Not much happens in Russian families without the say so of the babushka. Russia’s high divorce-rate, and a situation where…
Britain’s economy is struggling with so many off sick
One of the UK’s biggest economic problems is having so many people out of work – and the slowest return…
The inconvenient Palestinians
His name was Abdullah Abu Jaba and I want you to remember it because it’s the last time you’ll hear…
Prigozhin’s ‘treachery’ poses a dangerous challenge to Putin
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the businessman behind the Wagner mercenary army, likes accusing his political enemies of ‘treason’ for not backing him…
Vladimir Putin must be praying that Lukashenko survives
Belarus’s president Aleksandr Lukashenko has been missing from public view since being taken ill during a Victory Day parade in…
