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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…
Is Trump becoming a lame-duck president?
American presidents face an inescapable dilemma as soon as they are reelected. Because they cannot run again, they find it…
Keir Starmer is not waving but drowning at PMQs
Benjamin Disraeli once observed that the difference between a misfortune and a calamity was that if Mr Gladstone fell in…
Badenoch still has a Herculean task ahead of her
Kemi Badenoch’s good form at Prime Minister’s Questions continues. The Tory leader visibly enjoyed herself again today as she feasted…
The celebrity ECHR letter is pious posturing
Would someone please think of the luvvies? While the rest of the nation is furious about our out-of-control borders and the heinous…
How an Iran-Egypt Pride match threw the World Cup into disarray
Fifa looks set to face its first major scandal of the 2026 World Cup – if you don’t count the…
Rachel Reeves: There were too many Budget leaks
There were ‘too many leaks’ ahead of the autumn Budget, Rachel Reeves admitted this morning as she faced MPs on…
Mahmood should not waste her chance to reform the police
The Home Secretary is feeling the collars of our 43 chief constables. Shabana Mahmood has let it be known that…
Pantone’s ‘colour of the year’ isn’t racist
For those of you dreaming of a white Christmas, here’s some advice: keep your thoughts to yourselves. Or at least…
Could Shabana Mahmood merge the police into 12 forces?
‘The 43-force structure is no longer fit for purpose. In the interests of the efficiency and effectiveness of policing it…
Reform support in Scotland rises again
Another day, another bad poll for Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party. With less than six months until the Scottish parliament…
Keir Starmer’s call for ECHR reform is a risky gamble
Ahead of a Council of Europe summit in Strasbourg today to discuss the future scope of the European Convention on…
The special needs racket is out of control
We are, as vicars like to tell us, all special in our own way. But none so much as children…
Will Australia’s social media ban work?
It’s all too easy to get hooked by the online world, to fall headlong into it, to spend hour upon…
