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Will Keir Starmer be the Yimby prime minister?
Keir Starmer seems intent on exploiting the rising divide between Nimbies and Yimbies as we move towards the general election.…
The Poetry Society has betrayed poetry
Each year poets throughout the land wait breathlessly for the results of the National Poetry Competition and the latest winners’…
It’s hard to be proud of the FTSE 100
It has finally happened. In trading on Tuesday afternoon, the UK’s FTSE 100 index finally closed in on an all-time…
Does Reform believe in democracy?
For the third time in recent years a party created by Nigel Farage is threatening the Tory party’s fading hopes…
A leftist revolution won’t stop Marine Le Pen
A well-known French radio comedian recently suggested an armed revolution in the event Marine Le Pen is elected President in…
Sunak ‘appalled’ by British deaths in Israeli strike
The death of three British citizens in an Israeli strike has prompted fierce condemnation from the UK government. In a…
Don’t feel too encouraged by police leniency with JK Rowling
Police Scotland, who are responsible for enforcing Humza Yousaf’s Hate Crime Act, have found no criminality in a series of tweets posted…
Is Donald J. Trump International Airport on the horizon?
As the 2024 presidential election picks up steam, so is the race to kiss up to the presumptive GOP nominee.…
Rishi Sunak can’t lecture Humza Yousaf about free speech
Good on Rishi Sunak. At long last we have a Prime Minister who has come out swinging in defence of…
Drugs are costing the lives of too many prisoners
In prison, drugs kill. HMP Parc, a private prison in Wales managed by G4S, has seen six inmate deaths over…
Is Richard Dawkins a Christian?
When the New Atheism thing was new, I wrote a piece saying that the people who supported it were pretentious…
Rishi Sunak slams Scotland’s Hate Crime Act
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act has got off to a rather rocky start, to put it mildly. On Monday, when the…
House prices aren’t falling any time soon
The thing about having three prominent house prices indices, all of which publish monthly figures, is that they are forever…
Anti-Israel virtue signallers should leave Eurovision alone
The 2024 Eurovision Song Contest – the final of which will be held in Malmö on 11 May – is…
Britain should follow Germany’s lead in weeding out anti-Semites
On the surface of it, Germany’s new pathway to citizenship sounds like a rare dose of sense from the one…
Is this the beginning of the end for Erdogan?
President Erdogan’s political star rose when he won the local elections in Istanbul exactly 30 years ago. ‘The one who…
How will Iran respond to Israel’s assassination in Damascus?
Last night, six missiles fired from an Israeli F-35 combat aircraft hit and destroyed a building belonging to the Iranian…
The Biden White House’s Beltway elitism shows on Easter
Among the many political advantages of the presidency, surely one is the ability to extend warm wishes to Christians, Jews…
JK Rowling has exposed the absurdity of Scotland’s Hate Crime Act
Humza Yousaf’s illiberal Hate Crime Act is now in force and its first day has been a doozy. The SNP’s…
Why the council tax rise on second homes helps no one
What a surprise. Given the choice of whether or not to double council tax for second home owners from next…
Farage at 60: there’s more to come
Were I to tell you that the most significant political figure of his age celebrates a landmark birthday this week,…
The alarming rise of the middle-aged terrorist
Police in Paris last week arrested a man suspected of planning an attack against a church. That in itself was…
Martin Lewis is wrong about the ‘energy poll tax’
Given that a fair proportion of the UK public seem to want Martin Lewis to be prime minister, the government…
The quandary of being half-Jewish
I was in my early twenties when I found out that I’m half-Jewish. Until then, as far as I was…
What happened to the working class?
The Sunday Times’s headline for the obituary of Edward Bond earlier this month was striking: ‘Briton who rose from a…
