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Britain’s unofficial blasphemy laws have been decades in the making
Defenders of free expression can breathe a collective sigh of relief. Hamit Coskun – the man who burnt a Quran…
Did Blair really rebuild Kosovo?
Donald Trump seems to be questioning Tony Blair’s inclusion in the so-called ‘Board of Peace’ to rebuild Gaza. On Monday,…
The Tory party will never die
A political party widely referred to as ‘the Tories’ has now existed – albeit with some rather serious discontinuities along…
Thank God for Donald Trump
Imagine, for a moment, the world we narrowly escaped. A world in which Joe Biden, frail and fading, remained in…
Why do boring economists always win the Nobel?
When Friedrich Hayek won the Nobel Prize, his entire lecture – titled ‘The Pretence of Knowledge’ – was an attack on economics…
Streeting: I’m glad we can accept Brexit is a problem
To the Cliveden Literary Festival, where Health Secretary Wes Streeting has offered up his support for Sir Keir Starmer’s Brexit…
In memory of Saul Zabar
On what is controversially called Columbus Day weekend, which this year fell uncontroversially at the end of Sukkot, my wife,…
Donald Trump’s finest hour
This is Donald Trump’s finest hour. Speaking in the Knesset on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called him Israel’s “greatest…
Reform is right to give up on ‘fag packet economics’
As Nigel Farage prepares to abandon pledges of up to £90 billion in tax cuts, there will be plenty of…
Macron has to choose: humiliation or defeat?
Emmanuel Macron’s presidency is imploding, squeezed between enemies he can no longer outmanoeuvre. Marine Le Pen’s National Rally and Jean-Luc…
Will the Epstein files ever stop haunting Prince Andrew?
It has not been a good year to be the Duke of York. Firstly, Andrew Lownie’s devastating joint biography of…
Farage blames Starmer after Reform councillor attacked
Reform UK’s Nigel Farage has hit out at Prime Minister Keir Starmer after the party’s youngest council leader was attacked…
Donald Trump is the real anti-fascist hero
Tell me: who has done more for the cause of anti-fascism? Real anti-fascism? Those masked mummy’s boys of the Antifa…
The Canterbury Cathedral graffiti isn’t transgressive
Canterbury Cathedral’s ‘Hear Us’ ‘art installation’, in which the heart of English Christianity has been covered in fake graffiti, has…
The relief, joy and grief of Israel’s hostages’ homecoming
This morning in Israel began like no other: layered, dissonant, momentous. A collision of spectacle and salvation, of grief and…
The Tories smell blood in the China spy case saga
The Prime Minister is in Egypt today at a peace summit aimed at ending the Gaza war. The question of…
The joy of university
I log in so infrequently these days that Facebook has, I’m pleased to say, nearly given up on me. Like a half-hearted stalker whose…
Can Louis XX save Macron’s France?
From the stability of the Fifth Republic’s institutions, France is regressing to the chronic instability of bygone republics. In eight…
Move over shy Tories – it’s all about shy Reformers now
It was the most blatant and shameless piece of virtue signalling I’d ever seen. After a long day of training…
What happened when Thatcher, the ‘milk snatcher’, came to my school
When Margaret Thatcher, who was born hundred years ago today, came to visit my school I was in the midst…
Why did the FBI spy on Republican Senators?
The United States Senate Judiciary Committee this week revealed that Joe Biden’s FBI spied on eight Republican Senators and a…
Bridget Phillipson: UK played a ‘key role’ in Gaza peace deal
Bridget Phillipson: ‘We’ve played a key role behind the scenes’ Israel and Hamas have agreed on a ceasefire, and Israeli…
The death of Ian Watkins shows our prisons are out of control
Many have celebrated, and perhaps none will have mourned the murder of former Lostprophets frontman and prolific sadistic paedophile Ian…
Don’t blame Trump for the crypto crash
Hundreds of billions have been wiped off the value of the crypto currencies. A prominent Ukrainian blogger and influencer on…
The folly of releasing Hamas terrorists for peace
Sorry to spoil the party, but there’s one aspect of this week’s Middle East peace deal which is pure madness.…
