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Who is looking out for Britain’s salmon and frogs?
Whatever happened to British ecology? I was thinking that when I read two reports in the Times this week, both pretty depressing.…
We must cut Send to help our kids
It is ‘insane’, Reform’s Doge chief Richard Tice said this week, that children are wearing ear-defenders in classrooms, supposedly as…
The CPS is desperate for a backdoor blasphemy law
I had hoped I would never have to write about Hamit Coskun again. After the Quran-burner won his appeal in October, it…
Will Mahmood’s asylum reforms force Ireland’s hand?
Labour’s plans to overhaul Britain’s overstretched asylum system have forced the Irish government to do the same. As the Northern…
The Covid Inquiry has ducked the most important questions
The biggest lesson to come out of the first report of the official Covid Inquiry is what a mistake it…
Was Nathan Gill recruited by the Kremlin?
Was 52-year old Anglesey man Nathan Gill, a member of the European parliament, taking money from the Kremlin, or just from…
‘Monster parents’ are terrorising Japan
If you want to make a Japanese high school teacher break out in a cold sweat and suffer heart palpitations,…
We should admire Shabana Mahmood’s political conversion
It’s difficult to recall any minister in recent years, let alone a Home Secretary, who has been lauded with such…
It’s miserable being an Epstein
It was shortly after my fifteenth birthday that I discovered the music of The Beatles. A school friend and I…
There’s no writer quite like Mariusz Szczygiel
I’ve been a fan of Mariusz Szczygiel, the Polish author, investigative journalist and TV presenter, since reading his book Gottland:…
Zelensky risks coup or civil war
Kyiv When is the price of peace ever fair? War does not determine who is right, only who is left,…
Make education classical again
The National Curriculum Review, published earlier this month, was a rare opportunity to ask some fundamental questions about the purpose…
Reform’s Russia problem
Nigel Farage has had better afternoons. Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, has just been sentenced…
Volodymyr Zelensky is facing the ultimate test
Standing outside his presidential office in Kyiv tonight, on the same spot as on the second day of Ukraine’s full-scale…
Second MP quits Your Party
Another one bites the dust. Iqbal Mohamed has become the second Independent MP to quit the left-wing Your Party amid…
Why so many young people don’t have a job
Why are so many young adults not in education, employment or training? The latest statistics show that almost one million…
Will Mamdani and Trump turn the volume up?
Donald Trump is famous for being willing to meet anyone – Russia’s Putin, North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, Syria’s al-Jolani –…
Ex-Reform Wales leader given jail time over bribery
News just in: the former leader of Reform UK in Wales has been handed a prison sentence of 10 and…
Ukrainians think Trump is putting the screws on Zelensky
Kyiv, Ukraine The rumour reverberating around Kyiv is that the FBI has been leaning on Ukrainian anti-corruption police to investigate…
England’s remarkable Ashes fightback
It was a madhouse in Perth, in the latest instalment of sport’s oldest international skirmish. England, who opted to bat…
In praise of learning German
The University of Nottingham, one of the most prestigious Russell Group universities, is preparing to close its languages department, as…
The monumental self-delusion of Rachel Reeves
Rachel Reeves has been speaking to the newspapers trying to sell her Budget, which given her communication abilities is a…
Food inflation is a ticking time bomb for Rachel Reeves
As the Budget approaches, Westminster is full of chatter about Rachel Reeves’s decision to take the ‘smorgasbord’ approach to fiscal…
Will no one acknowledge how Mossad helps Britain?
Let’s imagine that an international jihadi network, with cells in London and Europe, had just been busted, with dramatic arrests…
Will Starmer approve the Chinese super-embassy?
Well, well, well. Just days after MI5 alerted MPs and peers to Chinese espionage threats, it appears that Prime Minister…
