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The ‘John Lewis approach’ won’t fix workshy Britain

5 November 2025 8:49 pm

Like the John Lewis Partnership he used to run, Sir Charlie Mayfield, who has just completed the government’s ‘Keep Britain…

Could private credit cause the next financial crash?

5 November 2025 6:49 pm

The recent bankruptcies of a little-known auto-parts supplier called First Brands and auto lender Tricolorhas sparked talk about a looming financial crisis…

Zohran Mamdani will destroy New York

5 November 2025 5:53 pm

William F. Buckley Jr once quipped that he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston…

Why do white men’s feelings matter more than black lesbians’?

5 November 2025 5:37 pm

So there you have it: the feelings of white men matter more than the rights of black lesbians. That’s the…

Keir Starmer is letting China abuse our libel laws

5 November 2025 5:22 pm

The enormous cost of British libel law is a threat to national security. For the sake of enriching London barristers,…

The Rosetta Stone does not belong in Egypt

5 November 2025 5:00 pm

It was inevitable that the Grand Egyptian Museum outside Cairo would accompany its much-delayed opening with demands for the restitution…

How Britain can achieve renewal

5 November 2025 5:00 pm

Here we are again. Fifty years ago the fashionable view was that Britain was ungovernable. Chancellors wrote their budgets kow-towing…

Prop 50 passed because grifters were scared of losing their grift

5 November 2025 4:30 pm

While it’s premature for a full autopsy of the No on Prop 50 campaign, the opposition clearly faced structural hurdles…

Far left is the new face of the Democratic Party

5 November 2025 4:13 pm

If you think America doesn’t permit assisted suicide, you haven’t been watching the New York mayoral election. The city is…

How to fix Britain’s energy policy

5 November 2025 3:23 pm

‘If nothing happens, it will be too late’. That’s the dire warning from an academic I spoke to recently in Aberdeen…

Mayor Mamdani will terrify America

5 November 2025 2:45 pm

Zohran Mamdani is the mayor-elect of New York City, and the progressive wing of the  Democratic Party is champagne drunk…

Democrats win New Jersey governorship with Trump scare tactics

5 November 2025 1:52 pm

The votes are in – and they’ve shattered any illusion that New Jersey is a swing state. The Democratic Party…

Bill Gates and the rightward shift of the billionaires

5 November 2025 1:14 pm

To his fellow high priests of the church of climate change, Bill Gates has just committed the ultimate heresy. He…

Marjorie Taylor Greene auditions for The View

5 November 2025 10:14 am

Last week, in anticipation of her appearance on The View this morning (or afternoon, depending on your local listings), Congresswoman…

Florence and the Machine is back

5 November 2025 8:26 am

It may be coincidence or clever record company marketing, but the two current reigning queens of the British pop music…

It pays to be a bad college-football coach

5 November 2025 8:11 am

These days, getting fired is the best thing that can happen to a college-football coach. Hugh Freeze is the latest…

We should mourn the loss of Rome’s medieval towers

5 November 2025 5:26 am

The Torre dei Conti, next to Rome’s Forum, partially collapsed yesterday. A construction worker who was carrying out restoration work…

Reform launches its own Research Department

5 November 2025 3:48 am

Since returning to politics in May 2024, Nigel Farage has had one central goal: replacing the Conservatives as one of…

What to expect from today’s elections

5 November 2025 3:03 am

Americans head to the polls today, with gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey and mayoral elections in New York City and Minneapolis. The…

Trump’s nuclear weapons testing is a dangerous idea

5 November 2025 2:12 am

It is often difficult to discern the exact meaning of President Trump’s public statements. He does not consider words carefully,…

Bridget Phillipson must not abandon special needs children

5 November 2025 2:11 am

Bridget Phillipson, Secretary of State for Education, has finally turned her attention back to her brief – and there is…

How Dick Cheney made Donald Trump

5 November 2025 1:05 am

Former vice president Dick Cheney, who died on Monday at age 84, loathed Donald Trump. In a 2022 election campaign ad for…

Was Dick Cheney a hero or a villain?

5 November 2025 12:32 am

Former US vice president Dick Cheney died last night aged 84. He arrived in Washington as a congressman for Wyoming,…

Badenoch has a new favourite word: work

4 November 2025 11:39 pm

After Nigel Farage’s address on Reform’s tax plans yesterday and Rachel Reeves’s effort to lay the groundwork for the Budget…

John Lewis’s Christmas advert might be its worst yet

4 November 2025 11:31 pm

John Lewis’s Christmas advert is back – and this year’s effort is even more mawkish, unfocused and wearying than ever.…