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Sunak under pressure to curb legal migration
Rishi Sunak goes into the week on the defensive over legal migration. After figures late last week revealed net migration…
Is the war of the Windsors about to blow up again?
The name ‘Omid Scobie’ must be one of the least popular ever uttered in Buckingham and St James Palaces. Not…
Is climate change really to blame for rising food costs?
Everything in the shops is getting more expensive and restaurant bills have become prohibitive. We are all aware that food…
Is a national Holocaust memorial still a good idea?
Whatever the fate of the ceasefire and hostage exchange between Israel and Hamas, the latest conflict in the Middle East…
The evolving phenomenon of ‘Brexit regret’
It was reported this weekend that the great trans-Pacific trade deal (CPTPP), the one that Lord Cameron just boasted would…
What Palestine supporters could learn from the anti-Semitism march
Imagine having to be reminded not to be racist. Imagine if officialdom itself felt it necessary to whisper in your…
Dublin is a city on the edge
At 1.30 p.m. last Thursday, a horrific knife attack was perpetrated outside a school on Parnell Street in Dublin’s north…
The stakes are high at London’s anti-Semitism march
Whether Muslim, Jewish, Christian or atheist – and whatever your nationality – there is ample reason to stand up to…
The next stage of Israel’s war will be even deadlier
On Friday a four-day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began, as the first hostages taken by Hamas were released by…
KCL’s sinister diversity and inclusion policies
Last week the King’s College London LGBTQ staff network, called Proudly King’s, demonstrated its intellectual level and its view of…
Opec’s split is good for the West
It largely slipped under the radar, but there was a rare bit of good news for hard-pressed consumers and businesses…
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…
