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How to fight with your family
Like many families, mine is home to a diverse array of political orientations, ranging on an ideological spectrum from Calvin…
Forget race or class, marriage is the big social divide
The latest spark to ignite the culture wars is a report from the parliamentary education committee on the underachievement of…
HMS Defender: What’s behind the Navy’s Russian incident?
Assuming that reports are accurate, the world has just witnessed the most serious escalation between the UK and Russia since the…
What can we learn from Israel on ending lockdown?
Israel has been the world’s whole-country experiment to establish how, and how fast, Covid vaccination can return life to normal…
Viktor Orbán goes to war on the European parliament
‘Times have changed, and whereas thirty years ago we believed Europe was our future, today we understand that we are…
How Israel can block Iran’s nuclear dreams
In his first press conference, Iran’s new President unequivocally objected to renegotiating the Obama-era nuclear deal. Israel’s new Prime Minister,…
Beijing’s battle to crush Hong Kong’s final freedoms
The Apple Daily was born on 20 June 1995. Its opening editorial was a statement of intent, setting out its stall…
Democrats: OK, now crime is a problem
The New York City mayoral race is split between two factions of Democrats: those who cut a tempered figure offering…
Listen: Department for Education’s new patriotic anthem
After last year’s A-level results day debacle and the ongoing saga about catch-up funding, Gavin Williamson is one of the…
The DeSantis doctrine
The term ‘Florida man’ usually comes loaded with negative connotations, but not if you’re talking about Ron DeSantis. The first-term…
Labour’s worrying descent into communalism
Labour’s candidate in Batley and Spen, Kim Leadbeater, reportedly pulled out of a hustings featuring George Galloway over the weekend.…
Laurel Hubbard is the beginning of the end of women’s sports
When women’s professional soccer was deemed good enough for our TV screens a couple of years ago, I was watching…
Spain’s pardoning of Catalan separatists may backfire
In one of his adventures on the highways of 17th-century Spain, Don Quixote encounters a gang of prisoners ‘manacled and…
The politics of Germany’s Stasi archives
‘Oh please… not the letters I sent to my mum,’ sighed the East German pastor Gernot Friedrich as he randomly…
Why were my colleagues murdered?
Two weeks ago, the charity I run suffered the greatest loss of life in its 33-year history. The Halo Trust…
Prepare for the EU’s ‘Hamilton moment’
The EU may boast a common currency like any other state (even if nearly a third of its 27 members…
Oxford, ‘sensitivity readers’ and the trouble with safe spaces
The list of things that students must apparently be protected from grows longer every day. Controversial speakers, rude comedians, sombreros…
Will the right save Julian Assange?
In late 2018, Nils Melzer, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Torture, was contacted by lawyers representing WikiLeaks publisher Julian…
Taking the knee isn’t the best way of showing black lives matter
As a black football fan who grew up going to matches in the seventies and eighties, I know more than…
What’s the real reason Israel’s vaccines were rejected by Palestinians?
Sipping an iced coffee in a Tel Aviv café this week, it felt like it was 2018 again. Nobody wears a…
France’s silent majority has rejected Macron – and Le Pen
I popped down to the Salle du Peuple on Sunday to see how the voting was going in the departmental…
Johnson vs Sunak: The political battle of the autumn?
As ministers grow increasingly confident that they will be able to unlock by 19 July, Boris Johnson is facing a…
How Russia lurched from vaccine victory to Covid crisis
Russia made headlines last August when it triumphantly unveiled its pioneering coronavirus vaccine, Sputnik V. But now, nearly a year…
Remainers declare war on Fox’s biscuits
Next Thursday is election day in the Batley and Spen by-election and with polls showing a six point Tory lead,…
Pope puts EU founder on the road to sainthood
To many in Brussels, the French statesman is already a saint. But now Pope Francis has decided to put Robert Schuman…
