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Putin has corrupted Russia’s ‘Victory Day’
The Victory Day celebrations on 9 May have been, under Vladimir Putin, through a dramatic mutation. In my childhood, in the…
The Taliban’s Afghanistan quagmire
Hibatullah Akhundzada is a secretive man who is only occasionally heard and seldom seen. But on May 1, the Taliban’s…
The dangerous rise of academic diversity quotas
Who should be the custodians of science? For centuries, scientists themselves have been. Now, their custodianship is under threat. Science…
Why Channel crossings are starting again
For a week and a half no migrants at all crossed the Channel in dinghies. A theory began to take…
How Eurosceptics seized power over the French left
In Britain it was the Tories who tore themselves apart over Europe, but in France it is the left for…
Let’s turn on SafeSearch for the Houses of Parliament
It really is quite easy to click on internet pornography by accident. There’s a persuasive argument that the whole of…
New York has become the city that never eats
Is there anything more extraordinary than dining in New York City? Whetheryou’re sitting down for the Michelin star experience of…
Piers Morgan’s Uncensored has a huge mountain to climb
He sits alone at a huge glossy desk like a James Bond baddie inhis lair. The viewer expects Daniel Craig…
The absurd theatre of Amber Heard vs Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp, a Hollywood star whose career currently consists of a perfume advert, is suing his ex-wife Amber Heard, a…
Tony Blair was a victim of his own success
Napoleon is said to have placed a high value on lucky generals, though no one has succeeded in identifying the…
Why terror groups are targeting Chinese nationals in Pakistan
A female suicide bomber killed three Chinese teachers and a local driver at Karachi University in Pakistan this week. The…
Xi has made his choice: he is sticking with Vladimir Putin
Xi Jinping has made his choice. He is sticking with his ‘best friend’ Vladimir Putin, and no end of Russian…
Why are midwives being told that biological men can give birth?
Edinburgh Napier University claims to be one of the largest providers of nursing and midwifery education in Scotland. It now…
Is this the last gasp of the Covid state?
In the week ending 15 April, there were 644 deaths registered in England and Wales involving Covid-19 as the underlying…
The truth about Biden’s new disinformation tsar
The Biden team is following in Barack Obama’s footsteps by launching a Disinformation Governance Board. And the current administration is…
Why is Canada euthanising the poor?
There is an endlessly repeated witticism by the poet Anatole France that, ‘the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the…
Why the Vikings are winning the culture war
The young woman’s screams were drowned out by the sound of drums. No older than her teens, she had been…
Pestminster’s return spells trouble for Boris
Some male MPs behave ‘like animals’. In the wake of the recent spate of bad behaviour among our lords and masters, Attorney…
The hole at the heart of Boris Johnson’s premiership
No. 10 will be waiting nervously at 10pm on Thursday. Will the end of voting in the local elections bring…
Britain is accepting of trans people – but sceptical of the ideology
Two things all journalists and all politicians should always remember. Britain is not Twitter. Britain is not America. The nasty…
The electric scooter ban doesn’t make sense
Is there anything we use in everyday life which was not, at some point on its journey to acceptance, denounced…
Miss Brexit? Another bust-up is looming
In the past few months, relations between the UK and the EU have been the best they have been since…
The Biden Bust is here
A wave of government spending would reboot the economy. Fairer taxes would pay for restored infrastructure. Skills would be improved,…
This is how to save the Union
Devolution has failed in Scotland. Nothing that follows will be of use to you if you remain in denial of…
Putin’s war is uniting eastern Europe
When president Zelensky spoke to us in the Romanian parliament, it was his first international address after the horrors of…
