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Catherine Connolly’s victory was no landslide
Query: what kind of electoral landslide is it when most of the electorate doesn’t turn up? Not quite a landslide,…
Trump’s Pfizer deal will increase drug costs
President Donald Trump’s new partnership with Pfizer to sell drugs directly to consumers is being cast as a major win…
Should Reeves raise income tax?
Rachel Reeves is reportedly looking at a 2p increase in income tax. The hike to the basic rate – paid…
Is DEI to blame for the Louvre heist?
Police in Paris have arrested two men after the “heist of the century” at the Louvre museum. According to the…
The ‘anti-racism’ march are the real extremists
What’s more scary? A gaggle of old UKIP voters gathering to vent their spleen about mass immigration? Or a march…
Catherine Connolly’s election is a humiliation for Ireland’s establishment
‘I will be an inclusive president for all of you,’ Catherine Connolly declared as she was announced the winner of…
Dick Taverne was the last social democrat
Lord Dick Taverne, a one-time Labour Minister turned Lib Dem peer, has died at the great age of 97 –…
Avanti should get rid of its Pride train
My train pulled up at the Manchester Piccadilly platform and suddenly I was staring at what is apparently the largest…
Riot Women sums up everything wrong with the BBC
Picture the scene: five middle-aged male actors playing rockstars are lolling about on sofas in a recording studio. In front…
Why I don’t like gigs
I’ve been obsessed with music and collecting records ever since I can remember. I even played a lot of those…
Will the Dutch send migrants to Uganda?
Reinette Klever, the former minister for foreign trade and development aid on behalf of Geert Wilders’s Freedom party, navigated her…
Is Jack Carr behind the Department of War?
As a Navy SEAL for 20 years, who reached the rank of Lieutenant Commander and served in Iraq and Afghanistan,…
Catherine Connolly’s election is a low for Ireland
As predicted, the radical far-left has emerged victorious from Ireland’s farcical presidential election, leaving the ruling coalition parties humiliated and…
Why I am threatening to sue the London Mathematical Society
Last month, in apparent defiance of the Supreme Court, the Council of the London Mathematical Society published a new Statement…
Lucy Powell wins Labour deputy leadership race
Lucy Powell has won Labour’s deputy leadership election, beating her rival Bridget Phillipson. The result was announced this morning after…
Accidental prison releases are all too common
Yesterday His Majesty’s Prison Service released a sex offender by mistake. That would be bad enough on its own, but…
Prince Andrew’s titles cannot be simply stripped
Back-bench MPs are again discussing how to ‘strip’ Prince Andrew of his titles. The frenzy and impulse is public-facing and…
The searing testimony of Eli Sharabi
Now that the remaining live hostages have been freed, and the remains of those killed are slowly being located and…
Will Trump meet ‘Little Rocket Man?’
As President Trump sets off on his East Asian tour, all eyes will be on the bilateral summits that the…
Will Hamas give ‘cold peace’ a chance?
Gaza was always going to be a hard lift, and it is proving to be exactly that. The two years…
An evening in Austin with Graham Linehan and Meghan Murphy
It’s a telling commentary on our times that an Irish man and a Canadian woman have to go to Texas…
Will SCOTUS strip seats from Democrats?
The headwinds facing Democrats in Congress have been blowing powerfully for some time now. On culture, the economy, law enforcement…
Did the billionaire Binance bro pay for his pardon?
“Better to ask forgiveness than permission.” Those were the words of Changpeng Zhao – the billionaire founder of Binance, the…
Trump’s World Series wind-up
It’s thanks to good old Yankee bravado that baseball’s most important fixture is called the “World Series,” even though it’s…
The fall of Jess Phillips
Is Jess Phillips okay? I can’t be the only one wondering. The safeguarding minister’s increasingly erratic, shirty performances at the…
