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Ukraine shouldn’t get a free pass to the World Cup
Should Ukraine be given a free pass into this year’s football World Cup? Boris Johnson has given his support to…
What if Hunter Biden actually gets indicted?
More news is breaking daily on America’s favorite pipe artist. But if you looked at Hunter Biden’s inner circle, you…
Anti-Semitism is alive and well in Britain’s schools
My children have never felt the need to hide their Jewishness. That’s the heart of it, I suppose. A few…
‘McKinseygate’ won’t bring down Macron
We are in the final stretch before the first round of voting in the French presidential election on 10 April…
Zelensky has saved Boris
Labour will try all it can to bring up the subject at every opportunity; as will a few backbench MPs.…
Ian Blackford’s six step guide to untold riches
Inflation. Energy spikes. Tax hikes. Low growth. It’s a tough time for hard-pressed Britons at present. The cost of living…
Putin’s mines will plague Ukraine for years to come
A Ukrainian colleague told me a joke yesterday. ‘We used to believe the Russians had the second best army in…
Inside the Kremlin’s great lie machine
Believe it or not, it’s only 36 days since Vladimir Putin launched an unprovoked and premeditated attack on Ukraine. It’s…
There’s no such thing as a ‘global citizen’
Watchers of the news might be forgiven for thinking the Biden administration is worried about the election-year optics of more…
Time to invoke the 25th Amendment against Biden?
President Biden’s senile verbal blunders over the past few days have prompted renewed speculation over his mental competency. It’s even…
Five things we learnt from Johnson’s evidence to MPs
Boris Johnson rocked up at the Liaison Committee today, fresh from last night’s bonding dinner with 250 Tory MPs. And…
Ukraine is witnessing the future of drone warfare
Russian forces have reportedly been ordered to watch last year’s state-funded propaganda film Sky. The Kremlin-funded drama follows the lives of Russian airmen…
Do House Democrats want cities to die?
The Democratic Party is out of the office. Quite literally. Nancy Pelosi, who controls administrative policy in the House, this…
Jamie Wallis’s trans statement leaves more questions than answers
Westminster has its first openly transgender Member of Parliament. In the early hours of this morning, Jamie Wallis, Conservative MP…
The Prince Andrew conundrum
Prince Philip’s memorial service yesterday was an affecting occasion. The hymns, including Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer and Britten’s…
Are we falling out of love with the NHS?
Clap for carers now feels like ancient history. Public satisfaction with the NHS is at its lowest since 1997, according…
Now the statue-topplers come for abolitionists
Susan Aitken, we meet again. The worst council leader in Britain is back in the news. What, pray, is it…
British judges are right to cut ties with Hong Kong
The resignations of Lords Reed and Hodge from Hong Kong’s highest court is not much of a surprise, except perhaps to…
Neither Ukraine nor Russia can win the war
While Russia has agreed to pull back its troops from Kyiv, the signs of a wider breakthrough in peace talks are…
Israel is facing a new wave of terror
Is Israel in the midst of another wave of terrorist violence? Five Israelis were killed in a terrorist incident on…
Has Putin finally handed over control to his generals?
Russia has signalled that, a month into a war that it expected to take a few days, it would begin…
The flawed idealism that united the right
Modern American conservatism is composed of three distinct traditions: libertarian economics, foreign-policy hawkism and social traditionalism. This “fusion” was born…
Don’t let Russia end the old world order
While most Americans believe that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is morally wrong, there is in some corners a pervasive…
Is this the end of borrow and spend?
Since the spring statement last week, Rishi Sunak has been dealing with complaints from all sides: the right have been…
Labour is falling into the Tim Farron trap on sex and gender
What do you remember about Tim Farron’s time as Lib Dem leader? Was it the position he created for his…
