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Sweden’s gun crime epidemic is spiralling out of control
The shots were fired at 1pm on a Sunday, in spite of a heavy police presence at the scene. A…
How cable news will inevitably politicize the Surfside building tragedy
Nothing could be more predictable than media coverage of the catastrophic building collapse in Surfside, Florida. Cable news will feature…
Does Derek Chauvin deserve a 22-year sentence?
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to over 22 years in prison by Judge Peter Cahill on Friday…
Hancock has made a mockery of his own rules
How much trouble is Matt Hancock in? The Sun splashes this morning on the Health Secretary’s affair with aide Gina…
Did the SNP cover up a cancer crisis?
The news that a Scottish woman died from cancer after being among more than 400 wrongly told they did not…
Will Biden’s stricter gun laws apply in his own household?
President Biden’s White House, like his jaw, is made of glass. But you have to give the 78-year-old credit: he never…
Mumford and Sons versus the mob
So it’s finally happened. Cancel culture has come for Mumford and Sons. Winston Marshall, former banjo player in the hugely…
One Britain One Nation: How to write a proper propaganda song
How do you make an emotional appeal for a united United Kingdom? So far, unionists have tried flag flying, resolutely refusing another…
A plea from a pollster: stop listening to the public
When Dominic Cummings released his WhatsApp messages with Boris Johnson earlier this month, perhaps the most alarming was the one…
The hypocrisy of Matt Hancock
Matt Hancock has not, we can agree, made it his business to lighten the public mood during the pandemic. That…
French democracy is in trouble – and the EU is to blame
France’s airwaves have been crackling with indignation this week, as politicians wring their hands at the record abstention in the first…
Boris’s junk food crusade is absurd
The government is to ban ‘junk food’ adverts before the 9 p.m. watershed as well as restricting online food ads. Boris…
Is J.D. Vance the right man for the right?
J.D. Vance is the man Republicans have been praying for since the day Donald Trump stormed to the party’s presidential…
Mar-a-Lago nights with Donald Trump
Palm Beach, Florida I’d visited Mar-a-Lago before, briefly. This longer trip was my chance to get better acquainted with the…
Joe Biden is not Mr Normality
Isn’t normality great? That’s been Joe Biden’s selling point from the beginning, ‘normality’. Back in March 2020, the former conservative…
Mumford & Sons banjoist quits in cancel culture row
Oh dear. Back in March, Mumford & Sons banjoist Winston Marshall landed himself in hot water after praising a book by conservative…
Ever weaker Union: The Tories lack a constitutional theory
No doubt Michael Gove is satisfied with how his latest comments on Scottish independence have gone down. The Chancellor of…
Has the Bank of England just blown its chance to stop inflation?
The economy is growing at a blistering pace, and likely to recover all its Covid losses by the autumn. Labour…
Don’t blame ‘white privilege’ for the plight of working-class kids
Tory MP Robert Halfon is right to say that the underachievement of white working-class students is a ‘major social injustice’. He is also…
Beware Boris’s sinister crackdown on free speech
A Conservative government that boasts it is a defender of free speech against the attacks of ‘the woke’ is about…
The real reason Putin targeted HMS Defender
When military personnel talk of ‘theatres’ they mean a zone of conflict. Moscow seems to take the term increasingly literally,…
In praise of Western civilization
‘Western civilization would be a good idea,’ joked Mahatma Gandhi, one of its most successful pupils. We are accustomed to…
Time to end the MAGA madness
The Republicans need to separate the MAGA from the message. The Democrats are already doing this. While congressional Republicans pander…
A party and a half
The future of the GOP is the same as the future of the Democratic party. That is because the parties…
The Lincoln Project or Hunter Biden: who is more bulletproof?
Surely they can’t keep getting away with it. Oh, who is Cockburn kidding? Of course they can. Tuesday was a…
