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Who’s to blame for our censorious students?
Without freedom of speech, you do not have a university. More than any other value, it is freedom of speech…
Liz Truss’s mea culpa moment
The fallout from last Friday’s mini-Budget has been bigger and more volatile than almost anyone expected, with sterling hitting an…
Could Boris Johnson ever make a comeback as PM?
The big hope for Boris Johnson, according to Dominic Cummings, was that Liz Truss’s likely implosion as Prime Minister might…
This is Iran’s George Floyd moment but where is the West?
George Floyd was a 46-year-old petty criminal from Minneapolis who died on 25 May 2020 after a police officer knelt…
Europe’s descent into deindustrialisation
The rapid economic collapse that Britain is facing is simply an accelerated version of what the whole of Europe is…
Labour surge to 33-point lead over Tories
Today Kwasi Kwarteng attempted to calm concerns in his party over the fallout from the not-so-mini Budget – telling MPs: ‘We…
The Liz Truss survival guide
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you then, as Rudyard…
Kirill’s crusade against Ukraine is more jihadi than Christian
Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, has again preached to the faithful of the Russian world. He…
Ten handy phrases for bluffing your way through the new financial crisis
Aggggghhh! Woooaaaah! Urrrggghhhh! Those screams you hear are ten thousand self-appointed financial experts howling into the existential abyss. The Bank…
The Nord Stream blasts are Putin’s warning shot to the West
While the Ukrainians are fighting a conventional war on their own territory, Russia and the West are engaged in an…
Why is the Bank of England buying gilts?
In a dramatic about-turn, the Bank of England is now intervening in the gilts market to try and calm the…
France’s centrists look petty after their charity football boycott
There should be a charity football match this evening in Paris between a team of MPs and an XI made…
Do Russia’s conscripts deserve our sympathy?
Russia’s new crop of conscripts are a desperate, dejected bunch. A photograph showing an Orthodox priest blessing these men as they…
Will cyberwar be next?
Neither the Danes nor Nato have made a direct attribution for yesterday’s pipeline damage. But the fingers are pointing at…
Is it time to kill the Conservative party?
Dominic Cummings’s response to the plight of the Conservative party is typically bellicose. He calls for it to be driven…
The City still runs on nepotism
When Liz Truss says she wants to give tax cuts to the wealthiest, she thinks she is making a moral…
Will Liz Truss take on the IMF?
Tonight the International Monetary Fund has weighed in on the UK’s mini-Budget, offering a direct rebuke of Liz Truss and…
Did Russia sabotage its own pipelines?
It almost seems worthy of the opening scene in a Bond film. Vital Russian gas pipelines running beneath the Baltic Sea close…
The problem with nationalising energy
Is nationalisation the vote-winner which Keir Starmer believes it to be? We will find out in due course, but my…
PayPal backs down
At 5.30 p.m. this evening, PayPal notified me that it has restored all three of the accounts it cancelled a…
Trussonomics shows that Scottish independence doesn’t add up
As the pound fell to a record low on Monday on the back of Kwasi Kwarteng’s ‘mini-budget’, the pings on…
Keir Starmer’s cautious conference speech
Keir Starmer’s big speech to his party’s conference was about the practical things Labour could do to fix Britain. He…
Giorgia Meloni can’t afford to fight the EU
Ravenna, Italy The victory of Giorgia Meloni in Italy with ahuge majority of seats in parliament has prompted the expected…
The problem with Cambridge University’s slavery report
It’s perfectly legitimate for Cambridge University to seek to understand its history, warts and all. But the University’s final report of its…
Why the European right is gaining ground
Last month the new Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, shared online a brief video of a Ukrainian woman being…
