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Do asexuals really face ‘dehumanising discrimination’?
Bored with hearing about discrimination towards lesbians and gay men? Having an empathy meltdown when listening to stories of violence,…
Macron is wrong if he thinks Isis is finished
Emmanuel Macron has suggested the formation of an international coalition to combat Hamas similar to the one deployed against the…
Sunak sounds the alarm on AI
‘Dr Death’ was the nickname bestowed on Rishi Sunak by one scientist during Covid. But ‘Dr Doom’ seemed a more…
Israel is facing an existential battle
Israel is fighting for its life. While the White House remains convinced that it is possible to somehow contain the…
Is a Great British Space Race about to take off?
Brits have, for many years, taken a back seat in the Space Race, but that could soon change. An all-UK…
Is the UN’s leader trying to alienate Israel?
The Secretary General of the United Nations is conventionally thought of as the world’s most high-profile diplomat, charged with the…
How Netanyahu’s ‘divide and conquer’ strategy backfired
Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to the Hamas terror attack has been slow and incompetent. Many of the efforts to house, clothe,…
Netanyahu is looking weak
If the Israeli public had expected Benjamin Netanyahu to take responsibility for failing to foresee Hamas’s attack on 7 October,…
Who is Mike Johnson, the new House speaker?
At long last, House Republicans finally selected their new speaker: Mike Johnson, the Shreveport native who resembles nothing so much…
Rishi Sunak has lost his fizz
A harrowing session at PMQs. Rishi Sunak seemed subdued and de-energised. His fizz had gone flat. The usual hip-wriggling shuffle…
The shameful desecration of Israel’s kidnapped children
We have seen many grim images over the past two weeks. Images of the apocalyptic, Isis-style violence visited upon the…
Dave Courtney and the grotty reality of true crime
The death of the gangster Dave Courtney – found in his bed with a gunshot wound at the age of…
How serious is Keir Starmer about devolution?
With a general election – and the prospect of forming a government – now firmly on the horizon, the Labour…
Keir Starmer’s Israel problem is growing
It wasn’t so long ago that Keir Starmer was being widely praised for keeping his party united and on message…
The Guardian’s questionable Holocaust article
Oh dear. The world’s wokest media outlet is at it again. When they’re not moralising over artists or misattributing quotes,…
The EU’s muddled response to Gaza has exposed its flaws
The EU’s response to the war between Israel and Gaza has been badly muddled. While Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden…
Hamas has made the same fatal mistake as the IRA
As Israel releases body cam footage showing the stark reality of Hamas terrorists’ brutal attacks on civilians during their assault…
Sunak to lift bankers’ bonus cap
Rishi Sunak is in office but Liz Truss remains in power. That’s the line that Labour are pushing on today’s…
Invading Gaza will cost Israel more than just lives lost
In an address to soldiers on Saturday, Israel’s chief of staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi outlined the aims of the…
Emmer next up? A complete guide to the House speaker race
Will today be the day we get a permanent speaker of the House? It’s tough to say. House Republicans huddled…
All is not lost for Argentina’s anarcho-capitalist presidential hopeful
Argentina’s presidential hopeful Javier Milei will have to wait to turn his country into an anarcho-capitalist anti-state where the peso…
Will the UK proscribe Iran’s revolutionary guard?
Why won’t the government proscribe the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps? MPs have been asking that question for more than a…
Labour’s Hansard howlers on Israel
Communication is everything in politics, as Labour’s overactive press office knows all too well. Earlier this month, Keir Starmer did…
Where is the empathy for innocent Israelis?
This open letter, signed by Simon Sebag Montefiore and others, was first published in the ‘Chronicle for Higher Education’. It…
Why does Macron think France should learn to live with terrorism?
When an Islamist extremist charged into his school in Arras, northern France, with a knife, Christian Berroyer could have hidden…
