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The mad cult of Doctor Who
When Doctor Who returned to wild acclaim in 2005, after 16 years off-air and about a generation of being regarded…
Germany’s Reichsbürger movement is anything but a joke
They don’t believe the German state exists, they make their own passports and they want the German monarchy restored. It’s…
Why Russell Norman was a restaurant genius
Polpo, Russell Norman’s celebrated and original Italian restaurant in Soho, was in full flow when I visited for the first…
Will Farage return to haunt the Tories?
The rise of Ukip and the highway to Brexit was greatly smoothed by the widespread perception that British governments had…
Why are the Spanish so loyal to the EU?
An upright Englishman, some years after marrying into a Spanish family, finally breaks his cardinal rule. In a moment of…
Ed Sheeran’s time is up
Who’s the worst pop star of modern times? Some might say that Adele sounds like a moose with PMT –…
Sanctions against Russia haven’t failed
One of Russia’s toxic TV presenters recently cackled that Western sanctions ‘have only helped Russia wean itself off dependence on…
The EU has only itself to blame for Geert Wilders
On the same day that the Dutch went to the polls my teenage daughter went to Strasbourg on a school…
What does Geert Wilders’s win mean for Dutch Muslims?
Muslims in the Netherlands have reacted with an understandable mixture of trepidation and anger to the electoral triumph of the…
Who is Sandi Toksvig to lecture ‘radical feminists’ like me?
Another day, another virtue signaller standing by their ‘trans siblings’ and taking a pop at feminists. Sandi Toksvig, she of…
New Zealand’s smoking ban u-turn is bad news for Rishi Sunak
New Zealand’s new coalition government has announced that it will scrap Jacinda Ardern’s plan to usher in a generational smoking…
New Zealand’s coalition goes to war with Jacinda Ardern’s legacy
New Zealand finally has a government again. It’s been 40 days since Labour was defeated in the country’s election, but the…
Russia’s plan to freeze Ukraine
Winter hasn’t officially started, but Ukraine is already covered in snow. As temperatures dip a few degrees below zero, the…
What good would forcing cyclists to have number plates do?
There was little competition for the oddest and most obscure bill to be announced in the King’s Speech: the proposal…
The tension simmering beneath the Dublin riots
The situation in Dublin yesterday – in which five people were injured in a knife attack in the heart of…
The families of Israel’s hostages are living in hell
Yair Mozes, whose mother and father are among the 240 hostages kidnapped by Hamas, is trying to describe what it…
In defence of the latest high migration figures
The debate over migration figures released today seems to be whether or not we’ve reached a new ‘record high’. The…
There’s no one to vote for if you want controlled immigration
There has been much Tory huffing and puffing about the ONS revising 2022 net migration to 745,000, up from its…
Why Geert Wilders won
Far right, anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has won a historic victory for his Freedom party (PVV) in shock Dutch elections…
Tory backlash as net migration hits record levels
After much Whitehall spin, the official figures are now in. Net migration in 2022 is estimated to have hit 745,000,…
Sunak has no excuse for immigration being this high
Of all the essential tasks facing Rishi Sunak when he became Prime Minister, bringing down the level of legal immigration…
Was the Black Death racist?
Even the Black Death of the mid-fourteenth century, we are now being told, practised racial discrimination as it raged through…
Is Javier Milei already defying his critics?
Critics of Argentina’s president Javier Milei have already made up their minds: he is a lunatic and his plans will…
Net migration hits 672,000 – with 2022 figures revised up
Has migration to the UK peaked? Net migration in the year to June hit 672,000, down from 745,000 in 2022.…
Did Israel-Palestine protests push Geert Wilders’s election victory?
Geert Wilders’s victory is another slap-in-the-face moment for the European Union. The complexities of Dutch democracy may mean that he…
