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Business schools are dating apps for the super-rich
“D’you know what the acronym MBA stands for?” The twenty-seven-year-old who asked me this had a deep tan and fluorescent…
San Francisco reparations and the Golden Age of Revision
We live in the Golden Age of Revision. Not everyone has noticed, so let me mention some of the highlights…
Matt Hancock’s Covid social media frenzy
Another day, another painful set of WhatsApp messages about Matt Hancock. Yet again the Daily Telegraph have released another batch…
The green movement faces a painful confrontation with reality
Environmentalism is the ruling ideology of our times. Forget neoliberalism. That peaked around 2000 and was definitively dethroned by the…
Will the last company to leave the City please turn out the lights?
It would have been bad enough if just one major British company had decided to list its shares in New…
The lack of trust in Joe Biden’s government is dangerous
The recent conclusion by the Department of Energy that Covid likely originated in a Wuhan lab is only the latest…
The problem with the BBC’s Manchester bombing coverage
The BBC have reacted to the Manchester Arena bombing, carried out by an Islamist maniac, by providing us with a…
Theresa May is the true villain in this latest Tory Brexit war
The blond bombshell has criticised Sunak’s new Windsor Framework as not passing the Brexit test of taking back control. He’s…
What’s in a name?
Someone, I think it was Martin Amis, once said that you can judge a novelist by how much effort he…
Captain Cook’s Aboriginal spears belong in Cambridge, not Australia
On the eve of the First World War, Trinity College, Cambridge deposited four spears collected by Captain Cook during his…
Four things we learnt from the Boris Partygate probe
Today the privileges committee has published its initial report into whether Boris Johnson lied to the House of Commons about…
The madness of the lockdown trials
I think we can now admit that Covid sent us all a little loopy. Matt Hancock certainly seems it, handing…
How much longer will MI5 cloak its incompetence in secrecy?
The incompetence of MI5 in failing to prevent Salman Abedi detonating his bomb at the Manchester Arena in 2017 beggars…
Five things we’ve learned on day three of Hancock’s lockdown files
Ping! It’s day three of the ‘Lockdown Files’ and a whole new tranche of former Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s WhastApp…
The Manchester Arena bombing and the shortcomings of public inquiries
Responding to Sir John Saunders’ third and final report on the bombing at Manchester Arena, Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary…
East Palestine and the roots of rural mistrust
The East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment has thrust rural America into the national spotlight. Town mayor Trent Conaway, a hefty,…
Inside the James O’Keefe ouster at Project Veritas
The old adage goes that there are two sides to every story, and the truth lies somewhere in the middle.…
Can Trump’s unorthodox campaign break the mold again?
Just based on public behavior, you’d think Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis weren’t even interested in running for the same…
Why is an Israeli politician calling for a village to be ‘wiped out’?
‘I think the village of Huwara needs to be wiped out. I think the State of Israel should do it.’…
Trans row rocks Guardian towers, again
Oh dear. It seems that life in the offices of the world’s wokest paper isn’t all its cracked up to…
Boris Johnson criticises Sunak’s Northern Ireland deal
Boris Johnson has made his first comments on Rishi Sunak’s protocol deal. In a speech at the Global Soft Power…
The trouble with ‘microaggressions’
Welcome to the divisive and somewhat sinister world of racial ‘microaggressions’. Loosely defined as ‘a subtle slight or action that…
Rishi Sunak’s Protocol could tear the DUP apart
Will the Windsor Framework prove the undoing of Jeffrey Donaldson and the DUP? The mood music amongst some of the…
The public have a right to know about the lockdown files
Having read thousands of Matt Hancock’s messages, I can see why he doesn’t want this discussions to become public. It’s…
How will Harry and Meghan take their next revenge on the Royal Family?
When Prince Harry appeared on the Stephen Colbert show earlier this week, he deviated from his usual pained ‘my family…
