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Nigeria’s Christians are relentlessly under attack
Dozens of Christian worshippers, including several children, were killed in a gun raid on a church in Nigeria’s Owo town…
The trouble with Thomas Piketty
Thomas Piketty, the French economist who shot to fame for writing a colossal work of economics that many people bought…
What Boris needs to do to survive
Most people date the beginning of Boris Johnson’s current woes to the start of the partygate scandal, and especially to…
Boris Johnson should quit now to save his career
The greased piglet will soon be sausages. That, at least, seems the obvious outcome of this week’s Tory party confidence…
Joe Biden’s get-along-go-along
The late columnist Molly Ivins once quipped about the inhabitants of “the world’s greatest deliberative body” that “‘Get along, go…
The man taking on the anti-free-speech left
For the anti-free-speech left, the most dangerous man in America today is Greg Lukianoff. The president of the Foundation for…
Boris’s moment of maximum danger is yet to come
Much as Boris Johnson wants to ‘bash on’, deliver popular populist policies, and characterise Monday’s confidence vote as the catharsis…
The EU’s phone charger rule will stifle innovation
Who could argue with the words of the EU’s internal market commissioner Thierry Breton when he says: ‘a common charger…
Shame on Cineworld for cancelling The Lady of Heaven
Bradford was chosen last week as the UK’s City of Culture for 2025. This week, Bradford Cineworld – as well as a…
Confirmed: Media Matters is a garbage place
Timothy Johnson, a “researcher” with Media Matters for America, announced Monday that he had left the organization after ten years…
The feminist case for Love Island
Love Island, which started again last night, flirts with virtue just a little more obviously each year. The show is racially…
How the Tories can avoid a repeat of their confidence vote conundrum
Boris Johnson insists that his victory in last night’s confidence vote means he will be able to ‘draw a line under…
Things are about to get even worse for Boris Johnson
A round of tax cuts? A splurge of infrastructure spending? Or perhaps a whizzy way of subsidising housing? Boris Johnson…
The game is up, Boris Johnson
The worst possible outcome for the Conservative and Unionist party is also a pretty lousy result for the country. That…
How Boris can cling on
What is happening in the UK right now is similar to the later Berlusconi years, the opera buffa phase of…
Can Boris bounce back?
How does Boris Johnson bounce back from 148 members of his own party expressing no confidence in him? The Prime…
Boris: It’s not over. Rebels: Yes, it is
Boris Johnson has just insisted that he has had ‘an extremely positive’ and ‘decisive result’ in the vote of confidence…
Boris’s narrow win is bad news for the Tories
Tonight’s confidence ballot has deepened the Tories’ problem. Yes, Boris Johnson won – but by nowhere near enough to resolve the…
Boris survives confidence vote – for now
Boris Johnson has won a confidence vote in his leadership – but nearly 150 Tory MPs voted against him in…
‘Let us refuse to dance to the tune of the media’: Boris Johnson’s full speech to Tory MPs
Graham (Brady), many thanks for convening this meeting. And I have to tell you I am glad that this vote…
This vote marks the beginning of the end for Boris Johnson
There is a school of thought, expressed by Fraser Nelson here this morning, that the Prime Minister’s Tory opponents have…
Pro-abortion vandals attack the Capitol Hill Pregnancy Center
On Friday, June 3, assailants vandalized the Capitol Hill Pregnancy Center, not far from Cockburn’s Washington home. An unknown party…
Estonian PM: When will Macron stop talking to genocidal Putin?
Alongside Britain, Estonia has been among Kyiv’s staunchest allies in its efforts to repulse Putin’s forces, delivering more military equipment…
The thrilling misogyny of Love Island
The thought of Love Island starting tonight gives me that same fuzzy feeling I had as a child when I…
The Tories are becoming ungovernable
Today’s no-confidence vote in Boris Johnson is best seen as the next stage of a determined long-term plot to bring…
