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The rise of the second-string left
If a recent Scientific American opinion piece purporting to explain how growing opposition to critical race theory damages public education…
Saint Jacinda’s war on fags
It is a curious irony that the West’s leading progressive icon is probably the most authoritarian leader in the free world…
Not all Durham students want to silence Rod Liddle
A week on from Rod Liddle’s appearance at a dinner at Durham university’s South College, the fallout continues. Yesterday, my…
Hillary Clinton’s latest masterclass
It’s been a tough few years for poor old Hillary. Since losing the 2016 contest to Donald Trump, the ‘most…
Is this the real reason Boris introduced Covid restrictions?
If a day is a long time in politics, 36 hours is a lifetime with this government. On Tuesday morning,…
The battle for Ukraine has already been lost
Forget the ‘commitment‘ of the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Ukraine’s sovereignty, the EU’s ‘firm and decisive’ support, and…
The BBC is right to ditch the ‘Bame’ label
Broadcasters in the UK have declared they will no longer use the acronym BAME to refer to black, Asian and…
How much trouble is Boris Johnson in?
Just how bad is it for Boris Johnson? In some ways it’s difficult to tell, this is a prime minister…
Islamonomics: how Erdogan crashed the Turkish economy
The Turkish lira sank to an all-time low against the dollar last week. The lira shed 30 per cent of…
Punishing the unvaccinated threatens everyone’s liberty
How should we treat the unvaccinated? Should we stop them from participating in normal life? Castigate them in the media?…
Missing Bob Dole in witless Washington
Bob Dole passed away this week, and according to the press coverage, he took with him an entire golden age…
Why shouldn’t conservatives ‘build their own Twitter’?
Taco Bell Patron in the year 2032: “What would you say if I called you a brutish fossil, symbolic of…
Boris takes his colleagues for fools
Is Boris Johnson really deploying a ‘diversionary tactic’ in announcing vaccine passports on the day he has had to perform…
What’s the evidence for England’s vaccine passports?
The Prime Minister has just announced Plan B. Working from home has been all but mandated and large venues —…
Durham students’ Rod Liddle protest in pictures
After eighteen months of Covid, there were some who feared the age-old tradition of the campus leftie had died out.…
Stratton resigns – but the row isn’t over
The row over the Downing Street ‘party’ has claimed its first victim. On Wednesday Allegra Stratton announced that she was…
PMQs: Boris’s nadir
The bombshell at bay. That’s how Boris looked at today’s PMQs. Deflated, cornered, winded and lifeless. Gone were the chuckles…
CNN in crisis
Cockburn is finally allowed to travel internationally again and he is quite chapped that his airport bar bourbons will no…
No, the Downing Street party probably didn’t break the law
Was the law broken at the Downing Street Christmas party last year? A video has now been leaked showing a No.…
Boris Johnson is eating reality
It is neither fair nor correct to say it was obvious from the moment Boris Johnson became Prime Minister that…
Will the public take Plan B seriously?
After holding strong for two weeks, fears over the Omicron variant look set to change the government’s course on Covid…
Boris throws his staff under the bus
What possible lines of defence could the Prime Minister come up with after the leaking of footage showing his Downing…
The decay at the heart of the civil service
That Britain no longer has the capability to maintain peace in Afghanistan other than as an appendage of the United…
‘Partygate’ is Boris’s biggest crisis yet
In politics some rows gain potency from blowing up at a bad time. Some because of their symbolic power. Some because…
No. 10 in crisis over leaked Christmas party video
Downing Street is in crisis mode this morning following the publication of a leaked video showing senior No. 10 staff…
