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The retirement age should be 70
Remember the Waspi women, who used to leap up and down outside Tory conferences for the right to continue to…
Is sloppiness our new national vice?
The Germans have a word for it. When they wish to criticise their Austrian cousins’ alleged tendency towards carelessness and…
New Zealand’s PM is a welcome change from Jacinda Ardern
Chris Hipkins can afford to feel pleased with his first days in office as Prime Minister of New Zealand. In…
Why Biden’s document scandal is worse than Trump’s
Shortly after reports surfaced that President Joe Biden’s team had found classified documents at his office at the Penn Biden…
In defense of paranoia
Maybe it’s because I grew up during the “stranger danger” milk carton kid era (for those too young to know…
Zelensky’s corruption crackdown is working
Ukraine has been shaken by a wave of corruption scandals in recent days. Zelensky’s deputy chief of staff, six deputy…
Has a Quran-burning protest ended Sweden’s Nato dream?
A crowd gathered outside Turkey’s embassy in Stockholm on Saturday afternoon to watch far-right politician Rasmus Paludan burn the Quran.…
India’s war on the BBC
BBC documentary India: The Modi Question, the second part of which airs tonight, has had a muted reaction in Britain.…
Thirty years from Waco: what the fatal siege wrought
On a windy morning thirty years ago, the FBI staged a surprise attack on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas.…
Why does Princess Eugenie want her son to be an activist?
The furore surrounding Prince Harry and Meghan Markle has made it easy to forget about the other younger members of…
Why aren’t the Lib Dems doing better?
This weekend, the Liberal Democrats announced that they are mounting a ‘blue wall’ offensive, a campaign aimed at affluent voters…
Government borrowing hits £27.4 billion
Rishi Sunak ruffled his own party’s feathers last week when – in reference to last autumn’s market turmoil – he…
How did this killer asylum seeker hoodwink the authorities?
In 2018, a 16-year-old boy called Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai shot dead two men in Serbia with a burst of eighteen bullets…
The problem with Britain’s benefits debate
A report claiming a majority of us receive more in benefits than we stump up in tax made headlines yesterday. The analysis produced by…
Why Putin needs Prigozhin
It’s been a tense couple of weeks for Yevgeny Prigozhin, the businessman and founder the of Wagner Group of mercenaries.…
We don’t need a ‘diverse’ coronation
Refugees and the NHS, we are told, will be at the heart of King Charles’s ‘diverse’ coronation in May. You’d…
A pilot explains why air travel has become so stressful
Add your tropical dream vacation/work trip/family wedding to the list of lingering Covid consequences. If you’re like me, every time…
With Ron Klain gone, who’s running the Biden administration?
After President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address last year, White House chief of staff and the administration’s resident…
Have we become too dependent on the state?
I have to tip my hat to Civitas. The ‘Tufton Street’ think tank made quite a splash on Monday, including…
Morris Chang: the microchip mogul caught between Biden and Xi
At the center of the world’s tech sector sits a Taiwanese chip tycoon most people have never heard of. Morris Chang…
John Bolton’s clueless presidential dreams
A couple of major news outlets got egg on their faces last week after reporting that John Bolton had officially…
East Asia’s mask obsession is a catastrophe the West must avoid
In the Red Square Rooftop Vodka Bar of the sleekly towering Novotel Hotel, on soi 4, Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok, it…
Is the Conservative Democratic Organisation the Tory Momentum?
As a Labour member and supporter, I feel a certain schadenfreude watching the newly-formed Conservative Democratic Organisation (CDO) take the…
Ukraine is paying a heavy price for Nato’s dithering
It is winter in Ukraine. The ground is frozen and hard. Groups of soldiers on both sides struggle in the…
Can Nadhim Zahawi survive his tax troubles?
As a new week begins in Westminster, Nadhim Zahawi is under increasing pressure over his tax affairs. The Tory party…
