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Reform’s messy welfare crackdown deserves some credit
When I last interviewed Nigel Farage, he told me a new divide was opening in Britain. The country was being…
Labour MP suspended amid Covid loan probe
Well, well, well. For all Labour’s high-minded talk of morality, one of its MPs has been suspended pending an investigation…
It’s no surprise that Andy Burnham was duped
Andy Burnham, who has built a political brand based on being open and approachable, has been duped by a prankster…
Why won’t Reform’s welfare cuts apply to the triple lock?
Well done to Reform UK for proposing to make chunky, £50 billion cuts to the welfare budget, more than twice…
Can Reform really end benefits Britain?
Benefits claimants will be required to carry out 20 hours of community service a week under a Reform government, Robert…
The end of the Luigi cult
Americans love their killers. Still, Luigi Mangione, who shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson dead in December 2024, may be the…
Why people cared about Jason Arday
Don’t badmouth the dead, said Chilon of Sparta. Over time, the phrase became a positive injunction to say nothing of…
Jason Arday wasn’t the victim of a ‘racist witch hunt’
For decades, voices on the liberal and progressive left have invariably rolled out the terror-inducing accusation of ‘racism’ in order…
Send the emergency alert to Whitehall
In Great Missenden we were affixing the last details to our Friday Effigy when the alert came. It’s a new…
Britain’s universities have an English language problem
Lectures at Britain’s best universities now come with subtitles. Look around the room and you’ll see rows of students who…
How Russia and China are helping North Korea dodge sanctions
If you were Kim Jong-un, you’d be pretty happy right now. North Korea’s third supreme leader is not only the…
Who was the real Anthony Bourdain?
When did Anthony Bourdain decide on his future career? If you take him at his word in his memoir, Kitchen Confidential,…
Jason Arday’s death is dreadful – and enraging
Behold the human wreckage of the cult of diversity. The tragedy of Jason Arday is that he was both built…
Will Andy Burnham send the Parthenon Marbles to Greece?
In 2023, the Mayor of Greater Manchester posted a comment on Twitter about the Parthenon Marbles held at the British…
What a dead bird taught me about the English class system
The most intimidating moment of my three-and-a-half years as Poland’s ambassador to Britain did not take place in Downing Street,…
The tragedy of Jason Arday
Simon Baron-Cohen, the distinguished Cambridge autism specialist, has been speaking movingly about his friend, Jason Arday, in a BBC radio…
The Iran crisis has exposed Britain’s strategic paralysis
I have often joked that in the unlikely event that Iran launched a direct, full-scale attack on Europe, Foreign Office…
We need more emergency phone alerts
Last night, my phone, which was set to silent, erupted with the sort of siren one associates with immediately life-threatening…
Why is Cambridge platforming Islamic creationism?
An academic project hosted by Cambridge University platforms creationism, the belief that the world was created by God in seven…
Fantasy football is good for you – and your kids
It’s 3.19 am and my brain cells are ricocheting. Nothing to do with the usual sleep-wreckers of money, sex or…
The wildfires phone notification was hysterical
It’s reassuring to know the government has the ability to live-tweet the slow decline of Britain. We won’t go out…
Five things we learned from the Clacton by-election
1) Nigel Farage is king of Clacton The Reform UK leader won the oddest by-election in UK political history. His…
AOC, the radical for normies
According to the prediction betting markets, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now favourite to be the Democratic nominee in 2028. Given that…
What Clacton taught us about Nigel Farage’s path to power
The Clacton by-election was finally over. Even by the standards of August news stories, it had grown pretty stale pretty…
Illegal migrants in Britain ‘need’ brothels, says Tory grandee
Astonishing. Former Conservative MP Edwina Currie suggests migrants need brothels in these towns and villages. Via @TimesRadio pic.twitter.com/24Nn8NZvuj — Adam…
