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The Tory party has a long way to go before it’s election-ready
This year’s Conservative party conference contains a number of examples of a party having some genuinely original thoughts, rather than…
Will tariffs stop China taking over Britain’s car market?
If you have your eye on a shiny new Jaecoo 7, affectionately known as the ‘Temu Range Rover’, or a…
Sánchez is heading for defeat in Spain’s snap election
Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez could have waited until August next year before facing the voters. Instead, he has…
Why the US bombers left RAF Fairford in a rush
The hasty withdrawal by the United States of its 12 B-1 Bombers from Royal Air Force base Fairford, without explanation…
The Tories are right: the Environment Agency must go
You can almost feel John Selwyn Gummer, Zac Goldsmith and the rest of the Conservatives’ green lobby quaking. Kemi Badenoch…
France’s school riots offer a bitter taste of what will happen if Le Pen wins
Few modern states are as conditioned by historical determinism as France. The dream, or nightmare, of revolution, riots or coup…
Colleges are making themselves obsolete
American higher education is in retreat. It’s shrinking. The for-sale signs have gone up. It’s time for “inventory reduction.” Forty-nine…
Kemi Badenoch’s ‘Victorian Values’ could be an election winner
‘All life is a struggle,’ wrote the Victorian ‘self-help’ philosopher Samuel Smiles. ‘Under competition, the lazy man is put under…
Exclusive: Tory MP met Reform treasurer at defection peak
The Conservative Party conference is well underway in Birmingham, with Kemi Badenoch making the first of two speeches to the…
Polanski’s Green party has been overtaken by radical activists
In a remarkable act of self-sabotage, Green party members have today passed a motion declaring that ‘Zionism is racism’ by…
Zack Polanski is repeating history
If you are a Jewish Green party member, even one who proclaims to be anti-Zionist but attends a Zionist synagogue…
Sunday shows round-up: Norris drops jury trial curbs from Courts Bill
Justice Secretary Alex Norris has said the government’s Courts Bill will return to parliament a week on Tuesday, without his…
Sanctioning the West Bank will hurt Palestinians
The passengers on an El Al flight from Tel Aviv last week to Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport were quickly separated and…
Get ready to flee socialist America
Peter Thiel, as is his wont, caused a stir last week when he expressed doubts that a Republican could win…
The delights of not running a newspaper
Writing this diary and the amiable correspondence I have had recently with my old friend Mathias Döpfner as he assumes…
Ed Davey is living on borrowed time as Lib Dem leader
per leader donning a wetsuit and making his way through a bog, but a political mess that he does not…
Britain is playing catch-up in the fight against antisemitism
This coming week brings another round of anti-Israel protests to our campuses and to our city centres, cynically timed to…
There is no place for Chinese espionage in British universities
As another academic year begins, the hallowed walls of universities are filled with anticipation, whether for the bright-eyed fresher or…
Russian history has become Chinese kitsch
I had to go back and snatch a photo, just to confirm the evidence of my own eyes – to…
The Tory party has a big opportunity to speak up for the Church of England
There is a big opportunity for one of the parties to show that it understands and values Britain’s Christian tradition.…
The truth about Gazan ‘journalists’
For two years we were told that Israel was waging a war on journalists. The statistics were recited at the…
Is Badenoch cutting through?
We are on the home stretch of the party conference season. It’s the turn of the Greens this weekend and…
Proportional voting will usher in a sectarian Britain
Andy Burnham’s pledge to change our voting system – and his vow at last year’s Labour conference that ‘Proportional Representation’s…
Fines don’t stop parents taking their kids on term-time holidays
The assumption is an obvious one: if you fine people for bad behaviour, they should stop. But human psychology is…
The Cornell Seven and the problem with consent
It’s October and a new academic year is underway. In Britain, students are taking diversity classes; in France, they are…
