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Unrest is spreading across Iran
“If they shut down the internet, you know it’s serious,” said a well-informed observer of Iran to me yesterday morning.…
Why the Iran protests feel different this time
The most recent spate of protests in Iran have escalated since 28 December and raised hopes once again that the…
Why the Norfolk carnyx matters
For the archaeologists used to working on major infrastructure jobs, it was a small dig, over in four weeks. Yet…
Channel 5’s Huw Edwards drama should never have been made
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the disgraced Huw Edwards would never again appear on our TV screens. But Channel…
Is Cambridge’s state school diversity obsession over?
Shock horror. A Cambridge college has realised that to recruit the brightest students sometimes you have to encourage students from…
What’s the matter with Minnesota?
Just when you thought Minnesota had hit rock bottom, the state achieves a new level of chaos. Once again it…
‘Regime influence’: Trump’s foreign-policy third way
At 2 a.m. on Saturday, President Trump gave a New Year’s kinetic expression to his recently published National Security Strategy and what it means in…
RFK Jr.’s health rules: eat, drink and be merry!
The USDA and Department of Health and Human Services has issued a new food pyramid, and it’s simultaneously great and…
Don’t expect England to learn anything from their Ashes drubbing
England’s cricketers have just lost the final Test match in Sydney. So the five-match series, a dead rubber ever since…
Colombia is the obvious next target for Trump’s narco war
Why exactly Donald Trump ordered that another head-of-state should be kidnapped is up for debate. The official reason for the…
The Birmingham Maccabi scandal proves multiculturalism has failed
Imagine if a UK police force had information suggesting white supremacists were planning to attack black football fans from overseas.…
Trump’s proto-British Empire built on oil
One remarkable thing about Donald Trump’s adventure in Venezuela is just how old-fashioned it is. It is a world away…
Kai is the queen of Generation Alpha Trumps
Americans hate to love, or love to hate, the country’s First Family, the Trumps, a melodramatic cast of characters that…
The SNP is up to its old referendum tricks
There will not be another referendum on Scottish independence if the SNP wins a majority in May’s devolved elections. We…
Starmer brings the spirit of Dry January to PMQs
‘New year, new you’. One can imagine the Prime Minister repeating this most hollow of secular mantras in front of…
Immigration is foreign policy now
Invade the world, invite the world. That pithy phrase was invented in the 2000s by Steve Sailer, the right-wing writer,…
Stonewall’s collapse can’t come soon enough
At last, some good news: Stonewall, the charity behind so much of the gender insanity that has gripped Britain in…
Nigel Farage was the winner of PMQs – and he wasn’t even there
‘He has got no choice but to be here for Prime Minister’s Questions! That’s why he’s here. If he could…
A crackdown on dangerous elderly drivers is overdue
Drivers over the age of 70 will soon need to have their eyes checked every three years in order to…
Labour’s drink-driving law won’t cut road deaths
‘We will tread more lightly on your lives,’ promised Keir Starmer in his first speech as Prime Minister. Yet his…
Can Laila Cunningham win London for Reform?
Laila Cunningham has been unveiled as Reform’s candidate for the 2028 London mayoralty race. Cunningham, who was elected as a…
Does Greenland really belong to Denmark?
Nordic politicians are trying to stir up anxiety following Donald Trump’s operation in Venezuela – and his threat to grab…
There’s a better way for Farage to win the motorist vote
It is easy to see the political attraction for Nigel Farage of promising to reverse Rachel Reeves’s decision to end…
Israel won’t hold back on Hezbollah for long
Israeli aircraft struck targets in Lebanon on Monday. Hezbollah and Hamas military infrastructure was targeted in the Hezbollah heartland of…
Britain will struggle to put ‘boots on the ground’ in Ukraine
The current conflict in Ukraine has frequently been compared to the first world war. There is an echo of the…
