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What Functional America wants
The United States is still rich enough to meet higher-order needs and call them entitlements. The decades-long response to race,…
The hidden victims of the South African shutdown
I sit in a National Park in South Africa, looking at an empty restaurant in which a robust staff, hired…
Watch: No. 10 staff joking about Downing Street Christmas party
Downing Street have spent the week trying to play down reports of a secret No. 10 party last Christmas when the rest of…
The Foreign Office isn’t fit for purpose
Now that the dust from the choppers has settled, we are left with two abiding images of the West’s adventure…
Parliament, not judges, should decide our laws
The British commentariat has not covered itself in glory in its reaction to Dominic Raab’s proposed reforms to judicial review.…
Gender is contentious. The BBC is pretending it isn’t
The BBC has produced its annual 100 Women list, a showcase for women who have done interesting, important things. There’s…
Has Christine Lagarde just let slip the truth about the euro?
Ursula von der Leyen dispensing vaccines, with a halo over her head perhaps? Emmanuel Macron riding a tank to symbolise…
Durham University to probe Rod Liddle speech
The masters of Durham University have reacted with Olympian swiftness to the hysteria which greeted Rod Liddle’s dinner speech at…
Afghanistan: five shocking claims made by the Foreign Office whistleblower
Dominic Raab faced the media round from hell this morning. The former Foreign Secretary faced a series of questions about…
Pope blasts ‘Nazi dictatorship’ EU
With England and France feuding, Russia mobilising and Brussels incurring the wrath of Rome, it all feels a bit 1530 in…
Lords blows six figures on correcting its peers
While much ink has been spilled over the Covid Commons, far less has been written about the Lords. Overlooked and…
Rees-Mogg’s No. 10 party jibe
It’s a difficult time for liberty lovers in the cabinet. The country is £400 billion in debt, the risk of…
Bob Dole, defender of America
The usualness, you might say, of the late Bob Dole is what would render him highly, and commendably, unusual in…
A war on drugs? I do hope so
I’m not going to lie, I let out a little chuckle — maybe even a murmur of approval — when I read…
Six highlights from Mark Francois’s memoirs
Certain dates will go down in the annals of Brexit: 23 June 2016, 12 December 2019 and 31 January 2021. To…
Why the No. 10 Christmas ‘party’ story matters
It’s crime week for the government — with Boris Johnson and his ministers set to unveil a range of measures…
Omicron: cause for hope?
It will be weeks before we know just how worried we should be about Omicron — but the first indications seem…
What’s the point of vaccine passports?
What is the purpose of vaccine passports: to keep down infection or to try to persuade more people to get…
Durham students try to cancel Rod Liddle
The University of Durham has boasted many distinguished students over the years: Sir Harold Evans, Justin Welby, Andrew Strauss and…
Kay Burley’s party hypocrisy
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – except if you’re working in Boris Johnson’s press office. Much has been…
Mispronouncing names isn’t a ‘microaggression’
People can make a bewildering number of offensive transgressions these days: from using the wrong pronoun when addressing people to…
Boycott the 2022 China Olympics
Anything short of a full boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics is an abdication of America’s responsibilities and a rejection…
Meghan woz right
The Duchess of Sussex’s legal ding-dong with the Mail on Sunday (which published her private correspondence with her father) has…
Why there is more Omicron than we know
Yesterday the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced it had identified another 26 Omicron cases, and the total number of…
Meet the Brexit-hating Macron clone who could be the next French president
The best way to describe Valérie Pécresse is Emmanuel Macron in a blouse. The newly-elected candidate for Les Republicans (LR)…
