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Why has London’s Royal Institution cancelled Eric Zemmour?
On Friday night, the insurgent but still undeclared French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour was to address 600 of his supporters,…
Christ’s Hospital shouldn’t lecture pupils on white privilege
Students and teachers at Christ’s Hospital, a £36,600-a-year boarding school in Horsham, West Sussex, are set to be given ‘diversity training’.…
Inflation rises again. The BoE has questions to answer
Inflation is back, and while some people continue to cling to the idea that its resurgence is a temporary phenomenon, today’s…
What’s the evidence for Scotland’s vaccine passports?
Nicola Sturgeon is considering extending vaccine passports to Scotland’s cinemas, theatres and pubs. ‘We are also considering whether an expansion…
Johnson is making the sleaze row worse
Is there anyone left in the Conservative party who is happy with Boris Johnson? The Prime Minister has now managed…
How the EU hardened its heart towards refugees
‘They wanted me to fight, and I knew I had toleave, or die.’ My translator, a former English teacher from…
Who won the Cold War, anyway?
Thirty years ago this December 26, the impossible happened. One of the bloodiest states of the twentieth century (a horrific…
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: wokeness is the return of white supremacy
There are white people in this country and elsewhere who rank human beings by race, with the whites at the…
What Bernard-Henri Lévy sees for the West
I meet Bernard-Henri Lévy at his apartment in central Paris on a chilly autumn afternoon. Considerations of security prohibit me from…
The hostage president
Every president is a hostage to fortune, but every president makes his own luck. The George W. Bush presidency was…
America needs more than ‘guardrails’ with China
As recently as a week ago, there was talk that Monday night’s virtual summit between President Joe Biden and Chinese…
How Kyrsten Sinema brought Gen X to the Senate
Kyrsten Sinema doesn’t care. She doesn’t care about your tweets. She doesn’t care about the constant vitriol from Jacobin-lite bloggers.…
What’s the truth about Kyle Rittenhouse?
On the night of 25 August 2020, Richie McGinniss, a somewhat gonzo video journalist interviewed Kyle Rittenhouse, for the right-wing Daily Caller website. Rittenhouse wore his…
Is Russia preparing to invade Ukraine?
I can still hear the battlefields of eastern Ukraine. Just a mile or so from us, thousands of Russian troops…
Why COP26 flopped
King coal is dead, long live king coal! That might be a fitting epitaph for COP26, which mercifully ended last…
Could the rise of Sinn Fein lead to a united Ireland?
The possibility of a political wing of a terrorist organisation becoming a party of government in an EU member state would…
Is Boris Johnson’s sleaze nightmare over?
Two weeks into this self-inflicted Tory sleaze scandal, Boris Johnson has set out plans to bar MPs from political consultancy…
Tulip Siddiq’s selective attacks on foreign leaders
Tulip Siddiq has campaigned nobly for the return of her constituent, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. The Labour MP is again doing her…
Blue on Blue: May savages Boris
The faults in the Tory party were on show for all to see today, as MPs were forced to debate…
Truss fails her first big test
Can anything stop the irresistible rise of Liz Truss? The power-dressing insta lover reinvented herself at International Trade, becoming the…
Kamala Harris, unprotected
Are you a sexist and a racist? For her supporters, that’s the only possible explanation for why Vice President Kamala…
Rittenhouse prosecution shoots from the hip
There are three basic rules of gun safety: always keep your firearm pointed in a safe direction, always keep it…
Joe Biden’s sacrificial presidency
The worst kept secret in Washington, DC is that Joe Biden is a one-term president — whether he knows it…
Prince Harry declares war on disinformation
Democracy is in crisis, faith in institutions is at an all-time low. The public’s trust in our leaders has collapsed;…
Why aren’t we more horrified by the Liverpool bombing?
Back when the West was still pretending to fight the ‘war on terror’, Martin Amis made an observation about the…
