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Is the western boycott of Russian oil backfiring?
Ukraine’s ability to defend itself against the Russian invasion has surprised almost everyone outside the country, none more so, presumably,…
How the Treasury maintains its power
Don’t bring a bottle. Your chances of finding a party in full swing down those chilly corridors are close to…
Putin’s Davos flops after sanctions
Oh dear. It seems that starting an unprovoked war is not the best way to inspire foreign investment in your…
Keir Starmer has got the Zzzz…Factor
Is it a fatal handicap for a politician to be dull? Since he became Labour leader two years ago, there…
Progressives, don’t cheer Rwanda’s setbacks
The last-minute halting of the first flight to Rwanda is humiliating for Boris Johnson’s government. An urgent interim measure from…
Gareth Southgate doesn’t know what he’s doing
‘The Hungar Shames’ screamed the Sun after England suffered a mortifying 0-4 defeat to the not so mighty Magyars last…
The Rwanda policy is about sending a message
Is the UK on course to leave the European Convention on Human Rights? This is what some Tory MPs are…
What’s the alternative to the Rwanda plan?
Last night, a Boeing 767 that was supposed to fly 130 asylum seekers to Rwanda returned to Spain without a…
Why Starmer shouldn’t relaunch
Yesterday’s Times carried a report that will only add to Sir Keir Starmer’s troubles. It quoted several members of the…
Is Boris willing to make the Rwanda plan work?
Priti Patel’s first go at deporting migrants to Rwanda is turning before our eyes into one of those answers from…
In defence of meddlesome priests
The British constitution is best understood as a dinner party. Imagine the key institutions of national life personified and sat…
The police have bowed to the mob
On Saturday immigration enforcement officers went to Peckham to pick up a man suspected of overstaying his visa. When they…
Levelling up is failing
First the good news: the Office for National Statistics figures released today show that pay is rising at its fastest…
Is Britain getting back to work?
The economic lesson of the week is that headlines are often deceiving. Yesterday’s GDP update for the month of April…
The EU never understood Northern Ireland
At the heart of the crisis over the Protocol is its failure to deliver on its own stated aims. To…
The Democrats’ ‘do something’ gun bill
There’s a new federal gun law in the works and it’s being heralded as a “bipartisan breakthrough agreement on gun…
Boris’s Protocol shake-up faces two major challenges
The UK government has now published both the text of the Northern Ireland Protocol bill and a summary of its…
Among the green conservatives
The American Conservation Coalition (ACC) last week held its first official summit, hosting a vibrant crowd of over 250 people.…
Changing the Northern Ireland Protocol won’t break the law
The UK is about to publish a bill that will override parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol. We are doing…
The royal rabble vs the Queen
By and large, the Platinum Jubilee celebrations were a success. Barring the odd moment of inexplicable poor taste, it was…
Welsh Tories would be wise to split from the Conservatives
Conservatives in Wales are jumpy. Seeing Boris’s name as poisonous on the doorstep, a number of them have suggested disaffiliating…
France’s Socialists have been punished for their intolerance
One of the more significant results from the first round of the French parliamentary elections on Sunday was in the…
The Northern Ireland Protocol is a problem Boris created
If Boris Johnson was elected on a single slogan, it was ‘Get Brexit done’. He then claimed it was done…
Why is America bombing Somalia again?
You may not have caught it amidst other international developments, but the United States bombed Somalia last Friday. No, that…
The next Brexit battle is here
The government will today reveal its plans to unilaterally rewrite parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol. Depending on who you…
