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Conservatives should support ending the debt ceiling
Just in time for the holidays, lawmakers will soon approve another increase to the country’s debt limit, perhaps by as…
The Biden administration hates you more than China
After over a month of deliberation, the Biden administration announced last week that they had settled on a diplomatic boycott…
Sir Humphrey wins again
The antics of the mandarin masters of Whitehall have long been of interest to Mr S. Back in September, Steerpike revealed…
JK Rowling is right to call out Police Scotland’s transgender nonsense
How should police record a rape where the culprit has male genitalia? The answer might appear to be straightforward: a…
My fight with Viagogo
My wife had a brilliant idea for my 12-year-old daughter’s Christmas present: tickets to go and see Sigrid (a pop…
Joe Biden is running out of other people’s money
Abba have reformed. Nato is working out how to deal with an aggressive Russian president. And there are shortages of…
Kill the bill: why Boris’s crime law isn’t fit for purpose
Boris Johnson is rightly facing the wrath of Tory MPs over the proposed introduction of vaccine passports, but another piece…
Johnson is imperilled. So why are his enemies helping him?
It’s a topsy turvy world when your friends and allies do you all kinds of damage and then your enemies…
Boris Johnson is becoming a risk to his own Covid rules
‘It feels like a tipping point. Trust in Boris is collapsing. It could be fatal’. So spoke a senior Tory,…
Defra’s trophy-worthy blunder
The Sunday People is not normally top of Steerpike’s reading list but Mr S was intrigued to see it yesterday…
What conservatives get right about masculinity
Conservatives are taking a lot of heat these days regarding masculinity. David French in a recent piece at The Atlantic…
Ending our corporate dependence on China
In the toxic world of American politics, the bipartisanship showed by the House of Representatives last week in overwhelmingly passing…
‘Get boosted now’: Boris Johnson’s third jab plan
‘Get boosted now’ is the government’s new slogan. In tonight’s address to the nation, Boris Johnson announced that he was…
There’s nothing outrageous about Johnson’s Christmas quiz
Since lockdown, the Mirror has had a good line on Tory lockdown hypocrisy scandals: Barnard Castle and the No. 10…
Sunday shows round-up: ‘It looks like’ Boris was breaking the law
If it looked like the Prime Minister was in trouble last week, it seems that was just the tip of…
Does Taiwan hold the answer to the lab leak theory?
It is nine months since the World Health Organisation (WHO) dismissed the possibility that the Covid 19 pandemic could have…
Boris Johnson’s Covid Christmas quiz
It’s hard to recall a more brutal set of Sundays for Boris Johnson. Today’s papers are dominated by ‘partygate’ in…
Poland’s abortion culture war is a battle for the country’s soul
This week it emerged that a hospital in the city of Białystok in Poland refused to grant an abortion to…
Interview: Rowan Williams on Wales, independence and the King Lear of Westminster
Rowan Williams is no stranger to politics. As Archbishop of Canterbury he was as comfortable criticising Tony Blair over Iraq…
The ethics of the Omicron travel ban
The Omicron variant had not even been named when the government’s reflexes sprung into almost involuntary reaction last month, and…
Why discord delights
Finding fault takes finesse. Oh, anybody can complain. We are a nation of complainers, carping at everything from breakfast vittles to late-night…
Vaccine passports may prove a pointless distraction from Omicron
Sajid Javid ditched vaccine passports when he became Health Secretary but he now has to bring them in again, albeit…
Julian Assange and the deep flaw in our extradition laws
You could almost hear the rejoicing in Whitehall on Friday morning when the High Court cleared the way for Julian…
Boris’s successor should be Rishi Sunak, not Liz Truss
Is the ball about to come loose at the back of the scrum? Though an imminent defenestration of Boris Johnson…
Is Vladimir Putin really willing to invade Ukraine?
Is Putin preparing to invade Ukraine? It certainly looks that way, with western intelligence agencies estimating this week that around…
