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Madison Cawthorn is right about metrosexuals on social media
Madison Cawthorn, the one-hit-wonder congressman from North Carolina who was defeated in his primary earlier this year, used his final…
The media’s latest ‘get Trump quick’ scheme
“I think the former president is a spent political force.” So wrote New York Times columnist Bret Stephens of Donald…
Why the Good Law Project lost – again
The Good Law Project (GLP) has lost again. But the lessons from this particular loss touch on a deeper problem…
In defence of Lady Susan Hussey
Lady Susan Hussey resigned from the Royal household yesterday after 60 years of loyal service to King and Country. Lady…
When will Covid fraud catch up with Rishi Sunak?
Remember Rishi-mania? It came around the time of the ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme, which was designed to help…
The Palace has treated Lady Hussey cruelly
On the Lady Susan Hussey affair – is anyone else more horrified by the Palace’s behaviour than Lady Hussey’s? Yes,…
House prices fall (again) – but is it the time to buy?
House prices have fallen for the second month in a row, according to Nationwide – following wider predictions of a…
Will the end of zero Covid be the real legacy of the World Cup?
You often hear about ‘legacy’ when international sporting tournaments come around. It’s a weasel word used by the organisers to…
Did the Cold War ever end?
Vladimir Putin turned seventy on October 7, but Garry Kasparov was not in the mood for a celebration. The Russian…
The death of Jiang ‘the toad’ – and memories of a more open China
It is a measure of the dark places Xi Jinping is taking China politically and economically that the rule of…
The office Christmas party is back with a vengeance
I’m bad at Christmas. I hate turkey, wrapping presents and the idea of forced, planned-out fun. My family — mostly —…
The generation gap over J.K. Rowling
I’ve often thought that a candid fly-on-the-wall documentary about the production of the Harry Potter films would be considerably more…
Pests overrun the House of Commons
Who’d want to work in parliament eh? The roof is leaking and the toilets don’t work, the floor is damaged…
Why is the US economy doing better than ours?
The US entered recession earlier than the UK and Europe, and suffered its inflation surge earlier too, so it was…
The Trump transaction is now over
Donald Trump has struck again. Just as the GOP was finally shifting attention away from its anemic midterms performance, there…
My travels in DeSantisland
Long before he became a darling of the right and the left’s second favorite villain, Ronald Dion DeSantis was just…
Lady Hussey’s resignation and the pressure to reform Buckingham Palace
It’s a story that sounds as if it could have come from half a century ago, rather than today. Ngozi…
It’s time we stopped subsidising the railways
Rail travel has never been cheap, but should we really each be paying £500 a year even if we never…
Balenciaga and fashion’s child sexualisation problem
For a long time now, high fashion – with the alibi of being ‘art’ – has tried on rape, self-harm, heroin-chic…
Macron’s trip to Washington is pure theatre
President Macron has landed in Washington with his fleet of jets to spend the next few days in procession across…
Parents need to do more to stop their kids watching porn
Nothing scares politicians more than telling parents how to do their job, which is a shame because a bit more…
Are the Tories in the throes of an existential crisis?
The UK government has had a fractious couple of weeks. First it was the Swiss EU deal rumours, then housing,…
The alt-right are contrarian phonies
Why is an alt-right pundit all of a sudden best buds with the artist formerly known as Kanye West? Many…
Why Trump’s antisemite controversy just won’t die
Donald Trump has caused something of a hugger-mugger over his last supper with Kanye West, or Ye, and Nick Fuentes.…
It’s nonsense to say we are no longer a ‘Christian country’
According to the census, British Christianity is having a disastrous century. In the 2001 census, a clear majority of people in…
