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Five things we’ve learned on day two of Hancock’s lockdown files
More revealing Matt Hancock messages dropped late last night as the Telegraph released another tranche of the former health secretary’s WhatsApps. Here…
The unraveling of Joe Biden: a retrospective
Looking back on the classified docudrama that brought down the Biden administration, it is still not easy to identify the exact…
The new war on weight
We’re getting fatter. We even have a whole day dedicated to it now, World Obesity Day. We are reminded about…
Watch: ministers considered ‘exterminating all cats’ in Covid
It’s not a great time to be a friend of Matt Hancock, knowing that any moment the Telegraph might splash…
Seed catalogs and their rejuvenating power
Winter’s bleakest days have set in. “The holidays” are a distant memory. Rose-colored resolutions to wake up earlier, eat healthier…
TikTok may be the real test of the China Select Committee
The primetime launch event for the House China Select Committee shows the bipartisan consensus that has formed in Washington on…
Biden should deliver on Jimmy Carter’s promise to explain UFOs
Remember the UFO that one of our fighter jets shot down with a missile? Reports now indicate it was a…
What happened to lockdown’s 40,000 missed cancers?
There is rarely a good time or place to explain to a patient that they have an untreatable cancer. Three…
The great villain of Covid is China. Not Matt Hancock
The Telegraph has a hell of a scoop with its lockdown files, aka Matt Hancock’s WhatsApps. It’s a major public…
The decline and fall of Matt Hancock
When Covid first hit the headlines in early 2020, I remember asking myself a question: who’s the health secretary again?…
Hancock’s lockdown files show there was no Covid ‘plandemic’
For those of us who were cynical about the government’s pandemic response as it was unfolding in real time –…
Could Meghan and Harry’s eviction overshadow the coronation?
With the coronation a mere two months away, the ‘will they, won’t they’ speculation about the presence of the Duke…
Elly Schlein shouldn’t be a problem for Georgia Meloni
There is much excitement among western Europe’s chattering classes after Elly Schlein was elected the new leader of Italy’s left-wing…
Ukraine’s drone war on Russia could backfire
Vladimir Putin has sold his Ukrainian war to the Russian people by trying to find the sweet spot between existential…
The importance of exposing Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages
For a while now, I’ve been buried deep in a vault in the Daily Telegraph going through the Matt Hancock files. Like…
The horrifying cost of Hancock’s Covid testing targets
The Telegraph’s splash of leaked WhatsApp messages about Matt Hancock and care home testing is a devastating reminder of the…
Five things we’ve learned from Hancock’s lockdown files
It’s not just the spectre of Brexit that is haunting Westminster. Overnight the Telegraph has released a smorgasbord of stories…
There’s still a hint of life in the Tory party
Westminster is a place of consensus, orthodoxy and prevailing wisdom. At any given moment, there is the Narrative, the story…
How Afghanistan erred by thinking Biden would never leave
By now, the American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan is etched into history as a failure — one that punctured the…
The Windsor Framework isn’t the blessing Scottish nationalists think it is
Is the Windsor Framework a get-out-of-jail card for Scottish nationalists? The excitement expressed in SNP circles at Rishi Sunak’s Protocol…
Is Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal all it’s cracked up to be?
Rishi Sunak’s ‘deal’ on the Northern Ireland Protocol is finally out. My first impression is that it is no ‘deal’…
Labour’s ‘menopause action plan’ is an insult to women
Only once have I been asked if I would like to be photographed with my head sticking out of a…
How the Tories should address Britain’s future
Michael Gove gave a speech at the thinktank Onward for the launch of its Future of Conservatism project today. Here…
The Tories should be planting some bombs for Labour
The recent self-defenestration of Nicola Sturgeon led to a rash of columns listing her dazzling lack of actual achievements, many…
Why is the NHS denying women pain relief in childbirth?
Over the weekend it was reported that hospitals are implementing a ban on the gas and air used by women…
