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An election campaign is still dangerous for Putin
It was elaborately staged precisely to try and look unstaged. After a medals ceremony at the Kremlin for Heroes of…
‘Rizz’, ‘vibes’, and what we lose with Very Online language
Welcome to our language: ‘rizz’. Here’s the OED definition: colloquial noun, ‘defined as ‘style, charm or attractiveness; the ability to…
The Tories aren’t being honest about foreign marriages
Western liberalism was built on the principle of marrying out. Our beliefs about the freedom of the individual ultimately stem from…
Could killing Yahya Sinwar end the Gaza war?
Somewhere beneath the rambling town of Khan Yunis, Yahya Sinwar, the murderous leader of Hamas in Gaza, is awaiting his…
The Turner prize doesn’t make sense anymore
In 1950 the American critic Lionel Trilling suggested, in his book The Liberal Imagination, that there was no meaningful right-wing…
Net zero has doomed Europe’s car industry
The decision of the European Commission to delay, for three years, tariffs on car exports between Britain and the EU…
Will Tory plotters sink Sunak?
After months of tedium, Sunday newsrooms everywhere rejoiced at Robert Jenrick’s resignation on Wednesday night. Finally, a return to the…
Watch: Naga Munchetty’s X-rated jibe at Boris
Pity the poor staff and stars of Have I Got News For You. Having propelled Boris Johnson to fame in the early noughties,…
The US Senate is playing into Putin’s hands
The news this week that Republicans in the US Senate had voted together to block a supplemental funding bill that…
Jenrick takes aim at Rishi’s Rwanda fix
After three days of speculation, Robert Jenrick has finally broken cover. In this morning’s Daily Telegraph he sets out in…
Joe Biden is all at sea on Israel’s war in Gaza
No amount of presidential bluster or White House spin can disguise the fact that the Biden administration appears increasingly clueless…
Brighton says ‘no’ to Eddie Izzard
‘If there’s one thing Eddie Izzard can’t be faulted on, it’s enthusiasm,’ Steerpike opined this week on the news that…
Why Kim Jong-un keeps crying
Crying in public is something we tend to associate with the North Korean people rather than their rulers – who are…
What Hugo Chávez failed to understand about Karl Marx
It’s 25 years this week since Hugo Chávez – an inspiration for leftwingers like Ken Livingstone and Jeremy Corbyn –…
Where was the White House when Guyana was sounding alarms?
Venezuela’s controversial Esequibo referendum received the support of voters on Sunday. In short, it asked Venezuelans if more than two-thirds…
Breakfast wine is where it’s at
In the old days (2019), mimosas and Bloody Marys were really the only the socially acceptable forms of alcohol that…
How mass immigration is worsening the housing crisis
Sometimes, what matters in politics is how one issue merges with another to produce an explosive reaction. In the 2010s,…
Starmer caught in Thatcher U-turn
Stop the presses: Starmer Chameleon has U-turned once again. In predictable fashion, he last night sought to row back on…
How progressivism locks the left into a suicide pact
For decades the American left has attempted to build a winning political coalition by convincing as many factions as possible…
It’s time for Humza Yousaf to end this gender bill farce
The first minister of Scotland, Humza Yousaf, has a painful choice following his latest defeat in the Court of Session…
What Joey Barton gets wrong – and right – about female football pundits
Joey Barton, the ex-Manchester City, Newcastle and QPR player, is in hot water again – this time over a series…
Is terrorism really a mental health problem?
When news first broke of the terrorist attack last Saturday in Paris, the French government rushed out a statement describing…
Prince Harry loses (again)
Good old Prince Harry has done it once again. In spite of all his strenuous efforts to avoid press intrusion,…
Hunter’s latest indictment is bad news for Joe Biden
Surprise! Surprise! Hunter Biden faced new charges on Thursday, after the Department of Justice accused him of failing to pay…
The disgraceful, ducking, diving, dodging college presidents
It was a clarifying moment, wasn’t it? The presidents of MIT, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania testifying for the House…
