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Tax pledge Tories turn to spirits

8 November 2023 11:08 pm

The watering holes of SW1 were full last night, with MPs dissecting the day’s King’s Speech. But as attention turns…

TikTok teens have an anti-Semitism blind spot

8 November 2023 10:12 pm

How could anyone hate Lily Ebert? The 99-year-old from Golders Green dedicates her life to teaching younger generations about the…

A ban on laughing gas is long overdue

8 November 2023 9:55 pm

The recreational use of laughing gas has been banned in the UK from today. We are only the second country…

‘The party of abortion’ is winning

8 November 2023 9:44 pm

Not so long ago, Republicans called Democrats the ‘party of abortion’ as an insult, or a pre-election attack line. Now,…

When will those ‘marching for Palestine’ do the right thing?

8 November 2023 9:29 pm

Those of us who believe in freedom of expression have felt mighty lonely this week. We have watched as, one…

The frightening bigotry of the French left

8 November 2023 9:21 pm

France’s most infamous antisemite is back in the headlines. At the weekend, the president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella,…

To destroy Hamas, Israel must continue bombing Gaza

8 November 2023 7:30 pm

Israel has no other choice but to carry on bombing Gaza if it wants to destroy Hamas. Its campaign of…

Do churches and cricket clubs really need anti-terrorism training?

8 November 2023 6:42 pm

One problem clearly emerged after an Islamist fanatic blew himself up at a major pop concert in the Manchester Arena…

Spaniards are horrified by an amnesty for separatists

8 November 2023 5:30 pm

When has a government ever offered an amnesty to fugitives from justice in order to stay in office? That’s what’s…

Will Germany’s ‘Rwanda-style’ migrant plan ever materialise?

8 November 2023 5:26 pm

Germany’s chancellor is cracking down on asylum seekers – but he is not doing so willingly. The country’s federal government…

All Sunak wants to do is attack Labour

8 November 2023 4:24 am

Rishi Sunak wants voters to see the Conservatives as taking difficult, ambitious choices, including on net zero and transport. He…

After 13 years of Tory rule, is this it?

8 November 2023 2:55 am

There were no big surprises in the King’s Speech today. That’s a shame. Rishi Sunak and his ministers like to…

Charles’s debut King’s Speech was a triumph

7 November 2023 11:56 pm

The King’s speech was a damp squib – but for that we should blame Rishi Sunak rather than Charles III.…

Why Scunthorpe steelworks needs saving

7 November 2023 11:37 pm

Scunthorpe is an industrial garden town, or so the signs welcoming you to the town say. It’s written beneath the…

The King’s Speech was all about the next election

7 November 2023 11:29 pm

‘My ministers’ focus is on increasing economic growth and safeguarding the health and security of the British people for generations…

Why isn’t Canada cracking down on this Indian student visa scam?

7 November 2023 10:12 pm

Canada’s rift with India continues. It’s been almost two months since Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau accused ‘agents of the…

Sunak is right to push ahead with new North Sea oil licenses

7 November 2023 8:51 pm

The green lobby has found another way of attacking the government for giving the go-ahead for new oil and gas…

The Covid Inquiry is exposing lockdown’s dodgy models

7 November 2023 8:18 pm

Did we lock down on a false premise? Yesterday was Ben Warner’s turn at the Covid Inquiry. He was an…

Not even America’s legal system can stop Trump

7 November 2023 7:04 pm

‘I beseech you to control him if you can,’ Justice Arthur Engoron. told Donald Trump’s lawyer in court yesterday. To which the…

What did we really learn from Dominic Cummings’s leaked WhatsApps?

7 November 2023 6:00 pm

It’ll be years before the Covid inquiry reports back on what we can learn from the pandemic, but already there…

Rishi Sunak’s Oliver Dowden problem

7 November 2023 5:00 pm

Margaret Thatcher was said to have once remarked that every prime minister needed a Willie. Given that humour was not…

How contentious will the King’s Speech be?

7 November 2023 4:57 pm

This morning King Charles will take part in the state opening of parliament for the first time as monarch. The…

The Met’s strange approach to protest

7 November 2023 3:44 am

Demonstrations against Israel, some attracting many thousands of people, have become a regular occurrence. We have grown used to the…

Is the Met doing all it can to control the Palestine protests?

7 November 2023 3:07 am

The Metropolitan police force is falling apart before our eyes. With it is going our sense of safety and security…

The danger of Hamas drone attacks

7 November 2023 1:23 am

The rise of the combat drone is changing the nature of the battlefield, as Israel has already found to its…