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The Scottish parliament has voted in favour of allowing government ministers to mislead it. That is the effect of a vote at Holyrood yesterday...

yesterday 30

Stephen Daisley

Politics / Why should British taxpayers fund students’ European Erasmus jollies?

Half a billion pounds of taxpayers’ money will be spent on rejoining the EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme. With libraries closing,...

yesterday 20

Iain Mansfield

Silencing effect / The anti-Muslim hate definition will be bad for free speech

After a long wait, the government’s Islamophobia definition has finally taken form. There has been plenty of criticism of the idea, and many...

yesterday 10

David Shipley

The police crackdown on 'globalise the intifada' chants is too little, too late

Protesters chanting ‘globalise the intifada’ will now be arrested, according to the heads of Greater Manchester Police and the Metropolitan Police....

yesterday 10

Jonathan Sacerdoti

Sins of the father / It's no surprise that the Bondi Beach attackers are related

The sun had barely set over Sydney’s Bondi Beach, when horror unfolded at the Hanukkah celebration. A father and son, armed with licensed firearms,...

yesterday 10

Rory Hanrahan

Despite the rate cut, inflation remains a danger

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has just voted to cut interest rates to 3.75 per cent and in doing so has delivered the...

yesterday 9

Michael Simmons

A snob’s guide to last-minute Christmas gifts

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Zoe Strimpel

‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ is far from merry

Here is a great festive pub quiz question for you. Which film was the song ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ written for? It’s likely,...

yesterday 10

Elliot Keck

My favourite books to give at Christmas

As Christmas approaches and we wrack our brains to find something that suits everyone, there is no present quite like a book. Whether it’s an...

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Her Majesty The Queen

Why should British taxpayers fund students’ European Erasmus jollies?

Half a billion pounds of taxpayers’ money will be spent on rejoining the EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme. With libraries closing,...

yesterday 10

Iain Mansfield

Why did scientists think the Beachy Head Lady was African?

A human skeleton found in a box in the basement of Eastbourne town hall in 2012, has, not for the first time, caused some controversy. Known as the...

yesterday 6

Mike Pitts

How to really save the BBC

Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC has accidentally done Britain a favour. One ‘fake news’ moment involving the US president has...

yesterday 7

Duncan Gray

Net zero dogma / Bats are paying the ultimate price for our wind turbine obsession

The 11,000 wind turbines in the UK are not only an eyesore, they are also a killer. Their blades can spin deceptively fast at up to 186 miles per...

yesterday 6

John Keiger

Keir Starmer just declared war on the lobby

This evening, Downing Street has announced a major overhaul of the ‘lobby’ briefing system. Currently, accredited political reporters are invited...

yesterday 1

James Heale

Kemi Badenoch is right to call for more defence spending

Kemi Badenoch has announced a series of commitments on defence spending that she would implement if she were to become prime minister. This is an...

yesterday 1

Eliot Wilson

What the word ‘intifada’ really means

Finally the left is showing an interest in freedom of speech. And all it took was a police clampdown on cries for violence against Jews. They turned...

yesterday 3

Brendan O’Neill

Starmer should pick a UN ambassador who knows Trump

yesterday 1

Tim Shipman

We don’t need a stealth tax on rotisserie chicken

It depends on whether you re-heat it when you get home, apparently. Or whether it is sold in a bag labelled hot food. The supermarket chain...

previous day 10

Matthew Lynn

Only the US is taking peace seriously in Ukraine

What exactly is the ‘platinum security guarantee’ that Donald Trump is pushing Volodimir Zelensky to accept? While the full details remain...

previous day 10

Owen Matthews

Why is the Scottish government so afraid of a grooming gangs inquiry?

The Scottish parliament has voted in favour of allowing government ministers to mislead it. That is the effect of a vote at Holyrood yesterday...

previous day 10

Stephen Daisley

Bike lame / The Brompton bicycle has had its day

Anyone who has had the misfortune to be in central London at rush hour will be familiar with an unlovely spectacle: that of a middle-aged man...

previous day 7

Alexander Larman

The Church of England's gay marriage row will rumble on

The Church of England’s House of Bishops met to discuss the Living in Love and Faith (LLF) project yesterday: that is, the project to change the...

previous day 6

Andrew Tettenborn

Albanese has failed to step up after the Bondi beach attack

It’s been three days since the jihad against innocent Jews at Sydney’s Bondi beach. A nation’s grief is swiftly turning to anger and...

previous day 3

Terry Barnes

No sacred cows / I spend more on wine than I do on my mortgage

The first time I got drunk was at a wedding. I was 12 or thereabouts and sick in the taxi on the way home. I’d like to say that set the pattern for...

previous day 1

Toby Young

Unhappy anniversary / Do we really need a 'new spin' on Jane Austen?

If you like your period dramas butchered, then you are in for a real treat. The 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth falls on 16 December, and...

previous day 9

Madeline Grant

Real life / On the trail of the White Lady

As we reached the top of the hill and saw the view in front of us my heart thumped so hard I slammed my foot on the brake and declared that we had...

previous day 2

Melissa Kite

Needle drop / How to cater for the dreaded Ozempic Christmas guest

A close relation of mine is taking Ozempic. I shan’t name them or give anything else away other than to say this: they are set to ruin our...

previous day 7

Arabella Byrne

Stuck in a rut / Is Britain depressed?

Something very strange is happening in Britain at the moment. Look at the economy. Things aren’t really too bad: for a start it’s actually...

previous day 8

Alec Marsh

Keir Starmer's union woes just got worse

During the dying days of Rishi Sunak’s regime, Labour politicians liked to encourage the idea that a change of government would improve industrial...

previous day 10

James Heale

The anti-Muslim hate definition will be bad for free speech

After a long wait, the government’s Islamophobia definition has finally taken form. There has been plenty of criticism of the idea, and many...

previous day 10

David Shipley

Did Britain need to rejoin Erasmus?

Is the government engaged in a campaign by stealth to return the UK to membership of the EU? It couldn’t make a better job of it if it was trying....

previous day 7

Ross Clark

The yearly flu crisis is entirely avoidable

Each winter our NHS is struck by an ‘unprecedented’ number of cases of seasonal illness. Politicians talk gravely of the hard work done by our...

previous day 7

Druin Burch

Can Rachel Reeves take credit for falling inflation?

For the second month in a row, inflation has fallen. Figures released by the Office for National Statistics show that last month the Consumer Price...

previous day 9

Ben Miller

Badenoch – and Starmer – should work on their PMQs jokes

Kemi Badenoch and Keir Starmer conformed to time-honoured tradition today at Prime Minister’s Questions by producing lots of jokes that would be...

previous day 6

Isabel Hardman

An unhappy Christmas PMQs for Keir Starmer

Thank God! Today was the last Prime Minister’s Questions before Christmas and so Sir Keir and Mrs Badenoch began their speeches with seasonal...

previous day 5

Madeline Grant

Anti-Semitism / Why won’t the West defend Jews?

Bondi Beach is not occupied territory. Yet a Jewish celebration there ended in blood. It is not within a military zone, not contested land, not an...

tuesday 40

Jonathan Sacerdoti

Watch: Starmer grilled on family farm tax

Once, the Liaison Committee was a must-watch in the House of Commons. But the Starmer super-majority means that the thrice-yearly gathering is much...

tuesday 8

Steerpike

Will Labour cut ties with Dale Vince?

Good old Dale Vince is at it again. The eccentric eco-millionaire seems to be plagued by a bout of foot-in-mouth-disease – as evidenced by his...

tuesday 6

Steerpike

Ireland's Jews have never felt lonelier

The massacre of Jews on Bondi Beach was the tragic, yet inevitable, result of rising Jew hatred throughout the western world, including in...

tuesday 8

Liz Walsh

Paul Lumber's death isn't funny. Why does that need saying?

Publicly mocking a man who has just died from falling off a ladder. This is what the ‘compassionate’ left has been getting up to on social media in...

tuesday 10

Tom Slater

Where is the violence against women and girls strategy?

There was a revealing moment in today’s Liaison Committee session with Keir Starmer where the Prime Minister was asked about violence against women...

tuesday 3

Isabel Hardman

Why was this old man fined £250 for spitting out a leaf?

‘I celebrate myself, and sing myself,’ wrote Walt Whitman in his rhapsodic celebration of freedom, Leaves of Grass. ‘And what I assume you shall ...

tuesday 8

Sam Leith

Keir Starmer's Russia problem is here to stay

Keir Starmer will travel to Berlin this afternoon to join European leaders for a ‘mini-summit’ in support of Ukraine following two days of talks...

tuesday 8

Lisa Haseldine

The Bondi Beach attack shows diversity is not our strength

In the wake of a tragedy it is only fitting that public figures issue words of condolence. But there’s a vast difference between making a statement...

tuesday 8

Patrick West

Politics / There are bin liners with more empathy than Keir Starmer

The liaison committee is always a laugh. It’s sort of like a year in review for the government’s litany of failures. Like an advent calendar but...

tuesday 2

Madeline Grant

'We must not be the Tory party 2.0': Nigel Farage on his plans for power

Nigel Farage is signing football shirts when I arrive at Reform’s campaign headquarters in Millbank Tower, the building where New Labour prepared...

tuesday 9

Tim Shipman

The joy of the little things

Whenever I hear the phrase ‘holiday of a lifetime’, I cringe. Same with ‘dream job’. You know they’re both going to disappoint. How can they not?...

tuesday 8

Mark Mason

Smartphone wars / Snobbery is the best weapon against screen time

I can’t be the only neurotic mother to have rejoiced when the Princess of Wales revealed recently that she has a strict ‘no phones at the table’...

tuesday 7

Lara Prendergast

Knife edge / Table manners are toast

Food courts appear to be everywhere in London at the moment and, for reasons too boring to go into here, I found myself at three of them across the...

tuesday 8

Rob Crossan

How London became the best place in the world to eat out

London has become the best place in the world to eat out. Of course, there are a thousand other cities with marvellous food, but for organic...

tuesday 1

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Crime / Why is the Scottish government so afraid of a grooming gangs inquiry?

Stephen Daisley

Politics / Why should British taxpayers fund students’ European Erasmus jollies?

Iain Mansfield

Silencing effect / The anti-Muslim hate definition will be bad for free speech

David Shipley

The police crackdown on 'globalise the intifada' chants is too little, too late

Jonathan Sacerdoti

Sins of the father / It's no surprise that the Bondi Beach attackers are related

Rory Hanrahan

Despite the rate cut, inflation remains a danger

Michael Simmons

A snob’s guide to last-minute Christmas gifts

Zoe Strimpel

‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ is far from merry

Elliot Keck

My favourite books to give at Christmas

Her Majesty The Queen

Why should British taxpayers fund students’ European Erasmus jollies?

Iain Mansfield

Why did scientists think the Beachy Head Lady was African?

Mike Pitts

How to really save the BBC

Duncan Gray

Net zero dogma / Bats are paying the ultimate price for our wind turbine obsession

John Keiger

Keir Starmer just declared war on the lobby

James Heale

Kemi Badenoch is right to call for more defence spending

Eliot Wilson

What the word ‘intifada’ really means

Brendan O’Neill

Starmer should pick a UN ambassador who knows Trump

Tim Shipman

We don’t need a stealth tax on rotisserie chicken

Matthew Lynn

Only the US is taking peace seriously in Ukraine

Owen Matthews

Why is the Scottish government so afraid of a grooming gangs inquiry?

Stephen Daisley

Bike lame / The Brompton bicycle has had its day

Alexander Larman

The Church of England's gay marriage row will rumble on

Andrew Tettenborn

Albanese has failed to step up after the Bondi beach attack

Terry Barnes

No sacred cows / I spend more on wine than I do on my mortgage

Toby Young

Unhappy anniversary / Do we really need a 'new spin' on Jane Austen?

Madeline Grant

Real life / On the trail of the White Lady

Melissa Kite

Needle drop / How to cater for the dreaded Ozempic Christmas guest

Arabella Byrne

Stuck in a rut / Is Britain depressed?

Alec Marsh

Keir Starmer's union woes just got worse

James Heale

The anti-Muslim hate definition will be bad for free speech

David Shipley

Did Britain need to rejoin Erasmus?

Ross Clark

The yearly flu crisis is entirely avoidable

Druin Burch

Can Rachel Reeves take credit for falling inflation?

Ben Miller

Badenoch – and Starmer – should work on their PMQs jokes

Isabel Hardman

An unhappy Christmas PMQs for Keir Starmer

Madeline Grant

Anti-Semitism / Why won’t the West defend Jews?

Jonathan Sacerdoti

Watch: Starmer grilled on family farm tax

Steerpike

Will Labour cut ties with Dale Vince?

Steerpike

Ireland's Jews have never felt lonelier