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Scotland offers myths, legends and bespoke textile designs
As part of the planning for a retreat I’m organizing in May, I recently visited Scotland. I spent time near…
Putin moves troops into Trump’s backyard
Clandestine US military forces are not the only foreign military troops operating in Venezuela. Russia has quietly dispatched military advisors…
How candid is King Charles being about his cancer treatment?
The news that King Charles’s cancer treatment will be moving into a new phase as of next year is undeniably…
Why does Trump care about Europe’s ‘civilisational erasure’?
In Ukraine, as elsewhere in Europe, Donald Trump’s new national security strategy is being met with a mixture of incredulity…
Primal Scream’s Nazi Star of David stunt is unforgivable
It’s hard, in 2025, to call out anti-Semitism. You’ll find yourself besieged by digital armies of apologists for bigotry. ‘It’s…
How terror triumphed at the Christmas market
Mulled wine and Heckler & Koch assault rifles don’t belong together, except in Christmas films like Die Hard. Festive visitors to…
What happened to the Oxford interview?
This week, there’s a strange absence in Oxford. For years, in December, you’d suddenly see a strange invasion of the…
Can Britain afford Aukus?
‘Full steam ahead’: That was the verdict on the Aukus alliance from Defence Secretary John Healey after the United States…
The 12 things that mattered in politics in 2025
We are in the pre-Christmas dog days and politics has, finally, slowed down a bit. Reflecting on 2025, here are…
Were the Romans good for Britain?
Since the Romans themselves wrote about the subject, we have a clear idea of the good things they did for…
Trump’s golden ticket
Give me your super rich, your global citizens yearning to be free! The Trump administration has finally unveiled its “Trump…
Europe’s EV market is rolling backwards
Imagine you are a keen Brexiteer and opponent of net zero plans, especially of the idea of being forced to…
How Rachel Reeves shrank the economy
The British economy is shrinking. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that GDP fell by…
The war in Ukraine is reaching its endgame
Painfully and chaotically, the outline of the peace deal that will eventually end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is emerging as…
Stopping the boats will be harder than Jordan Bardella thinks
France’s Jordan Bardella has promised to stop the boats. Now where have we heard that before? The president of Marine…
When will Europe’s leaders wake up to the Russian threat?
Europe’s leaders flocked to London this week, determined to show the world a united front. Like school boys at a…
How we cured DEI at the National Institutes of Health
Since the National Institutes of Health was founded as a one room laboratory in 1887 its mission was simple; perform…
The charming side of elections in the Falklands
It’s election time in the Falklands, where every four years we choose eight members of the Islands’ legislative assembly. They…
Is the superflu really ‘unprecedented’?
The NHS is facing a ‘worst-case scenario’ for flu this winter. That was the verdict of Professor Meghana Pandit, national…
Sandie Peggie and a chilling step backwards for women’s rights
A woman confronts a biological man in a female changing room. She is later found to have harassed him because…
Trump’s brave new world
No one ever tucked themselves up in bed to read a government document – at least not in the expectation…
Myanmar’s junta has stooped to a new low
Myanmar’s junta has once again shown its true self: calculated, despicable, and violently unrestrained. Last night, warplanes dropped two 500-pound…
Why the McDonald’s AI ad flopped
Be afraid, be very afraid. That’s what we’d been told in the advertising and commercial production industry. AI is coming…
What humans can learn from mice about monogamy
Time was, we took lessons from brute creation. Medieval bestiaries, books of beasts, weren’t simply descriptions of animals; these compendiums…
Is affordability a hoax perpetrated by the fake news media?
According to a proposal filed by US Customs and Border Protection, travelers coming to the US from more than 40…
