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Has Los Angeles killed America’s imagination?
The magnificent Griffith Park Observatory turned 90 this year and, as fans of nonagenarians, my wife and I hiked up…
Why bother banning US booze in Canada?
You know what they say about America: beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain and purple mountain majesties…
Go to Cicoria for the food, stay for the opera
Smart Italian restaurants in cultural destinations are like buses: you wait ages for one and suddenly two come along at…
Zohran Mamdani’s policies will make restaurants bland and expensive
There’s no shortage of catastrophic predictions for New York City under Zohran Mamdani’s leadership. While we probably won’t see breadlines,…
What doesn’t kill Egly-Ouriet makes it stronger
In recent columns, we have visited some lesser known spots in Burgundy – Saint-Romain, Maranges, Ladoix – where the wines…
Uzbekistan by high-speed rail
I am in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. I am standing in a historic complex of madrasas and mosques, courtyards…
The cowardly publishing world betrayed Kate Clanchy
Has the vibe shift finally hit the publishing world? There might just be some hope that one of the industries…
The ‘John Lewis approach’ won’t fix workshy Britain
Like the John Lewis Partnership he used to run, Sir Charlie Mayfield, who has just completed the government’s ‘Keep Britain…
Could private credit cause the next financial crash?
The recent bankruptcies of a little-known auto-parts supplier called First Brands and auto lender Tricolorhas sparked talk about a looming financial crisis…
Zohran Mamdani will destroy New York
William F. Buckley Jr once quipped that he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston…
Why do white men’s feelings matter more than black lesbians’?
So there you have it: the feelings of white men matter more than the rights of black lesbians. That’s the…
Keir Starmer is letting China abuse our libel laws
The enormous cost of British libel law is a threat to national security. For the sake of enriching London barristers,…
The Rosetta Stone does not belong in Egypt
It was inevitable that the Grand Egyptian Museum outside Cairo would accompany its much-delayed opening with demands for the restitution…
How Britain can achieve renewal
Here we are again. Fifty years ago the fashionable view was that Britain was ungovernable. Chancellors wrote their budgets kow-towing…
Prop 50 passed because grifters were scared of losing their grift
While it’s premature for a full autopsy of the No on Prop 50 campaign, the opposition clearly faced structural hurdles…
Far left is the new face of the Democratic Party
If you think America doesn’t permit assisted suicide, you haven’t been watching the New York mayoral election. The city is…
How to fix Britain’s energy policy
‘If nothing happens, it will be too late’. That’s the dire warning from an academic I spoke to recently in Aberdeen…
Mayor Mamdani will terrify America
Zohran Mamdani is the mayor-elect of New York City, and the progressive wing of the Democratic Party is champagne drunk…
Democrats win New Jersey governorship with Trump scare tactics
The votes are in – and they’ve shattered any illusion that New Jersey is a swing state. The Democratic Party…
Bill Gates and the rightward shift of the billionaires
To his fellow high priests of the church of climate change, Bill Gates has just committed the ultimate heresy. He…
Marjorie Taylor Greene auditions for The View
Last week, in anticipation of her appearance on The View this morning (or afternoon, depending on your local listings), Congresswoman…
Florence and the Machine is back
It may be coincidence or clever record company marketing, but the two current reigning queens of the British pop music…
It pays to be a bad college-football coach
These days, getting fired is the best thing that can happen to a college-football coach. Hugh Freeze is the latest…
We should mourn the loss of Rome’s medieval towers
The Torre dei Conti, next to Rome’s Forum, partially collapsed yesterday. A construction worker who was carrying out restoration work…
Reform launches its own Research Department
Since returning to politics in May 2024, Nigel Farage has had one central goal: replacing the Conservatives as one of…
