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If you watch one thing this Christmas, make it The Witcher
If you only watch one thing on TV this Christmas, make it The Witcher(Netflix). It’s by turns funny, exciting, scary,…
Europe’s emerging energy crisis
After the pandemic, is energy the next European crisis? Gas prices have hit new records, reaching $180 per barrel in…
The BBC’s mysterious missing Xinjiang evidence
Parliament has packed up for the holidays, with MPs and peers spending their final days in SW1 desperately dodging the…
Sturgeonomics would have crashed an independent Scotland
The Omicron variant is upon us, which means the return of the Scottish First Minister’s news conferences. These can be…
Sage modellers start to accept that Omicron is milder
Public health officials in Britain and South Africa were on different planets for about a fortnight. While those in South Africa…
Mail exodus to The Times continues
The shenanigans at Northcliffe House have given Mr S much to write about in recent months. Whether it’s Geordie Greig’s…
Why doesn’t Liz Cheney mention January 6 to her voters?
Cockburn is eagerly anticipating a number of clashes in the 2022 midterm elections in under a year’s time. Chief among…
Sage memo makes the case for lockdown
On Monday, Covid restrictions were rejected after the cabinet debated the issue robustly for the first time since the pandemic…
It’s too late to save comedy from ‘cancel culture’
Will comedy become the latest victim of ‘cancel culture’? Dame Maureen Lipman fears as much. ‘Cancel culture, this cancelling, this…
One man’s campaign to protect free speech
Almost three years ago, I spoke on the phone to a man called Harry Miller. A Lincolnshire businessman, he’d just…
Are we living in the Matrix?
With the release of the fourth Matrix film this Christmas, the idea behind the original movie is once again being…
Mean Girls of the White House
President Joe Biden’s message to the unvaccinated is clear: you can’t sit with us! Biden claimed he was ushering in…
Bad boy: Bidens dump dog week before Christmas
They say a dog is for life, not just for Christmas. Clearly that’s another old adage Joe Biden no longer…
What happened to China’s missing tennis star?
Did a senior Chinese politician rape one of the country’s leading tennis stars? That certainly seemed to be the allegation…
SPI-M modellers: a response to our critics
In late November, scientists in South Africa and Botswana identified a new variant of the virus that causes Covid. This…
Should businesses receive more Covid support?
As government considers whether to lock us down once again, should it put economic support for businesses affected back on…
It’s time to end the era of forced lockdown restrictions
Monday’s Cabinet meeting held over Zoom was a fraught affair by the sounds of it. Michael Gove and Sajid Javid…
Foreign honours for Hunt and May
Not many people here in Westminster have a good word to say about the Theresa May years. But down in tiny…
Boris Johnson’s betrayal of conservative values
Two years ago this week I wrote a piece for Coffee House entitled ‘Corbyn may be a goner but his…
Boris Johnson holds off on new restrictions – for now
When Boris Johnson held a Cabinet call this afternoon, the expectation was that an announcement on new restrictions would be…
Harry Miller’s ‘transphobic tweets’ victory is a win for free speech
Court decisions don’t often call for three cheers, but today’s Court of Appeal determination in the Harry Miller case is…
Is Omicron now falling in South Africa?
Man makes Covid predictionsand God laughs. Yet with the stakes this high in Britain, every bit of real-world data is…
Welby, Israel and the meaning of persecution
I arrived in Colombo the morning after the attack and went straight to the morgue to identify some of the…
Inside the Omicron fear factory
In March 2020, a profile of the typical Covid victim emerged from Italy. The average decedent was eighty years old, with approximately three comorbidities such as heart disease, obesity or…
Four times Boris said this Christmas would be better than last
‘It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…’ Or it certainly was until Omicron intervened. For the latest Covid variant has…
