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Labour’s grand plan? More borrowing
Rachel Reeves’s speech at Labour party conference was an attempt to show how the party’s economic strategy differs from the…
How Big Brother lost touch with reality
Big Brother is back – again. The show was axed by Channel 5 in 2018 but ITV has dragged it…
Israelis are furious at Benjamin Netanyahu
Israelis are livid. Their fury is directed not only at Hamas for massacring over 700 people, wounding thousands and abducting…
Why are Jews being blamed for Hamas’s attack on Israel?
‘Victim blaming’ is one of the sins that is most deplored by the social justice movement. When it comes to…
A fairytale wedding in Mallorca
“You are Kevin?” “Pardon?” Embarking on a solo week driving around Mallorca, then losing my drivers license in transit? Not…
The death of the two-state solution
Hamas has achieved something that no Arab army has done since the 1948 war: captured several Israeli localities and held…
Five of the worst responses to the Hamas attacks on Israel
Tragedies are often the moment when statesmen are at their best. Unfortunately, as we’ve seen from the response to yesterday’s…
Starmer faces tough questions as Labour’s conference begins
Keir Starmer began his big conference interview with the BBC talking about the story that has dominated the weekend –…
Israel faces a new kind of war
Israelis awoke to sirens on Saturday. They began after six in the morning on the border of Gaza as Hamas…
Israel has faced its darkest day for 50 years
While preparing to head out to synagogue to join the dancing and celebration for the Simchat Torah festival, the rocket…
Helen Mirren is perfect to play Golda Meir
The word ‘actress’ used to be interchangeable with ‘prostitute’ and though it’s a good thing that this little misunderstanding was…
Subsidies have defanged the French media
It’s not surprising that much mainstream French journalism is complacent, incurious and stenographic. The elite French media is lavishly subsidised…
My faux pas with Orlando Bloom
The R word strikes terror into the hearts of ministers and their diary managers alike but spare a thought for…
Has Soviet self-censorship come to Britain?
When the Soviet system fell in my native Estonia I was 17 years old. I’d spent the entirety of those…
Hamas is targeting Saudi-Israeli peace talks
Why the attack? Why now? What pretext? For Muslims like me, who have been following the Israel-Arab peace talks with…
The shameful gloating at Israel
Leftists love to fantasise about how heroic they’d have been when Jews were being rounded up in the 1930s. ‘I’d…
Israel declares war on Hamas
Some 5,000 rockets have rained down on Israeli civilians in an attack co-ordinated from land, sea and air by Gaza-based…
Why hasn’t the UK outlawed the IRGC?
As the scale and barbarity of the Hamas terrorist assault on Israel begins to unfold, to no-one’s surprise Iran has…
Will constitutional reform be on Starmer’s conference agenda?
As Labour travels to Liverpool this weekend, one issue which will attract attention is the extent to which Sir Keir…
Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel was meant to bring war
In the early hours of the morning of this morning, Israelis had a flashback to the surprise attack of the…
The trouble with Canterbury Cathedral’s rave
I will not be attending the silent disco that is soon to be held in Canterbury Cathedral. I will not…
Could Nigel Farage unlock victory for Keir Starmer?
What is Labour’s offer for Nigel Farage? Yes, you read that right. Of course, Keir Starmer’s party detests almost everything…
Stag don’t: Britain’s deer problem is out of control
Britain’s annual wildlife spectacular is just warming up. From the Highlands to the New Forest, the raucous bellowing of amorous…
In defence of Eton’s Provost
The world divides into two groups. Those who liked school and those who didn’t. Sir Nicholas Coleridge, the next Provost of…
Could this former tantric sex coach become Argentina’s president?
One of Argentina’s presidential candidates is unlike the others. La Libertad Avanza’s Javier Milei whizzes past crowds shaking a chainsaw in the…
