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Why are lesbians no longer welcome at Pride?
The lesbian group Get The L Out UK, founded to protest gender ideology and the pressure on same-sex attracted women…
Los Angeles is in freefall
On August 9, a crazy homeless woman riled by community activists stormed a Los Angeles city council meeting, shouting obscenities…
Liz Truss has a Boris Johnson problem
Can a honeymoon be over before the Wedding March has even begun? Liz Truss might be about to find out.…
Would Russia change if Putin died tomorrow?
Suppose Vladimir Putin drops dead tomorrow – he has to drop dead one day, after all. Will a chastened Russian…
Abundance doesn’t end
Speaking to his ministers at the Élysée Palace last Thursday, the très sérieux Emmanuel Macron called for unity and sacrifice…
What Philip Larkin can teach us about depression
A couple of years ago I taught The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin to some A-level students. In the last class they summed…
Why I’ll never make it in stand-up
I’m an idiot. Because only an idiot decides to seriously pursue stand-up comedy at thirty, which is when I began.…
Is Joe Biden… winning?
Well, well, well – Joe Biden seems to be making something of a comeback. His approval rating, which dropped to…
Can Moldova resist Russia’s embrace?
At the Cathedral of the Nativity, in the middle of Moldova’s capital Chisinau, many of those bowed in prayer before…
The Dnieper rapids and why Putin does not belong in Ukraine
Za in Ukrainian – and other Slavic languages – means ‘Beyond’, and porohi means ‘the Rapids’; so Zaporizhia stands for…
The four-day working week is a sham
The challenger bank sector has been such a graveyard in recent years that I don’t hold out much hope that…
What is Pope Francis up to?
If you think your diary looks busy over the next few days, spare a thought for Pope Francis. The 85-year-old,…
Is the right about to backslide on gay rights?
In a speech to August’s CPAC gathering in Dallas, Hungarian president Viktor Orbán said a good many admirable things about the…
The FBI search warrant is no slam dunk against Trump
At first read, the newly released Mar-a-Lago search warrant reveals little, with about half its pages redacted. It does suggest…
Zuckerberg’s curious confession
Well, there you have it. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, has confirmed that Facebook did indeed censor news of the New York Post’s 2020 Hunter Biden laptop story.…
An energy price freeze is a very bad idea
The confirmation of the huge jump in the Ofgem cap on domestic energy bills in October, and forecasts of even…
Could Macron trigger British blackouts?
‘We are living the end of an era of abundance,’ according to Emmanuel Macron, ‘the end of the abundance of…
M&S’s ‘gender inclusive’ changing room policy is a mess
Marks and Spencer needs to get a grip on its fitting rooms policy. The question of who can use the…
How high will energy prices go?
When dozens of energy companies started going bust in 2021, the government knew it had a crisis on its hands.…
The extreme heatwave wreaking havoc across China
China is struggling to limit the impact of its longest and most widespread heatwave since records began more than 60…
Pakistan is on the brink
On Tuesday I speculated that Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan, now the opposition leader, was so popular that he…
Liz Cheney: the self-appointed moral center of the GOP
I was hoping that I wouldn’t have to write about Liz Cheney again. After she was crushed by the Trump-endorsed Harriet…
Are sanctions against Russia actually working?
Six months ago this week, the United States and its European allies enacted one of the most comprehensive, stringent sanctions…
Albanian channel crossings are making our borders look like a joke
The wholesale abuse of the United Kingdom’s asylum system has taken a novel, absurdist twist in the last few months.…
Japan’s nuclear renaissance
Japan is reversing its avowedly anti-nuclear stance, restarting idled plants and looking to develop a new generation of reactors, announced Prime Minister…
