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Paul Ehrlich’s bad ideas won’t go away

I am sorry to hear of the death of Stanford University Professor of Biology Paul R. Ehrlich at the age of 93, but to read his writings you wonder...

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Paul Ehrlich’s bad ideas won’t go away

I am sorry to hear of the death of Stanford University Professor of Biology Paul R. Ehrlich at the age of 93, but to read his writings you wonder...

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Net zero is dooming Britain’s car industry

Could there be any greater vindication for the government’s policy of pushing us to buy electric vehicles than the crisis in Iran, which has sent...

13.03.2026 9

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Slavery reparations will be the next Chagos betrayal

Well, who would have guessed? Emboldened by Mauritius’s success in persuading Keir Starmer to surrender the Chagos Islands – which were never even...

11.03.2026 9

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Iran crisis / What will Ed Miliband do when the lights go out?

How many times has Ed Miliband told us that his renewable energy policies were helping to free us from ‘fossil fuel dictators’? Wind and solar...

09.03.2026 10

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Stop sneering at the Brits stuck in Dubai

Who cares about vacuous influencers whose ghastly apartments in Dubai are being struck by Iranian missiles, wiping the smile off their botoxed lips?...

04.03.2026 10

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Labour’s Gorton defeat shows that Keir Starmer is finished

In the end it wasn’t even close. The Greens won the Manchester Gorton and Denton by-election with some to spare, winning 40.7 per cent of the...

27.02.2026 8

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What does the ONS mean by living in ‘good health’?

Living longer but spending more of our lives in ill health. That is the rather shocking picture presented by the figures for ‘healthy life...

20.02.2026 40

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Just how bad are Nato’s armies?

Given the relative sizes of their economies, one might conclude that Russia would quake before the military might of Europe’s Nato members. Russia,...

20.02.2026 30

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A homegrown Visa card won't save Britain in a crisis

It is finally dawning on the government and the banking industry that it is not such a good idea to put the entire economy at the mercy of a couple of...

19.02.2026 10

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Just how bad are Nato's armies?

Given the relative sizes of their economies, one might conclude that Russia would quake before the military might of Europe’s Nato members. Russia,...

19.02.2026 10

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Morocco should be allowed to cull its stray dogs

Imagine if spectators at the London Olympics had to gingerly make their way past loose pit bull terriers and XL bullies, some of them rabid. No...

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What Ed Miliband should be learning from Gavin Newsom

What a pair Ed Miliband and California governor Gavin Newsom make. Both seem to suffer from the delusion that they are national leaders, meeting up in...

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Don’t blame AI for this jobs bloodbath

No wonder government ministers in recent weeks have started nodding along with fears that AI will take our jobs, with investment minister Lord...

16.02.2026 30

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Don’t bother visiting Rome

As a general rule, once a city erects turnstiles to tourist attractions which were once free to visit, it is time to go elsewhere. Never more so than...

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Trump is right about greenhouse gases

Irresponsible Trump, responsible China; that is the message BBC climate editor Justin Rowlatt seemed to be sending us by juxtaposing the news that the...

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Trump’s America isn’t the outlier on greenhouse gases

Irresponsible Trump, responsible China; that is the message BBC climate editor Justin Rowlatt seemed to be sending us by juxtaposing the news that the...

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Jim Ratcliffe has a point about Britain

12.02.2026 2

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Ed Miliband’s green promises are coming back to haunt him

11.02.2026 10

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Don’t bother visiting Rome

10.02.2026 4

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Will the Mandelson affair make loyalty a crime?

09.02.2026 5

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Alton Towers is right to ban ADHD queue-jumpers

06.02.2026 10

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The glaring flaw in Keir Starmer’s AI plan

05.02.2026 9

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Ed Miliband is killing Aberdeen

27.01.2026 6

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Trump is right: denying ourselves North Sea oil makes no sense

22.01.2026 10

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Ed Miliband’s warm homes scheme is good news for cowboy builders

21.01.2026 20

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Trump is right: Starmer’s Chagos deal is an act of ‘great stupidity’

20.01.2026 20

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Fare fiction / The great rail ticket swindle

18.01.2026 30

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The great rail ticket swindle

17.01.2026 20

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Reform risk becoming the face of Tory failure

15.01.2026 8

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Ed Miliband's wind power delusion is costing us money

14.01.2026 20

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Cutting the drink drive limit won’t save lives

11.01.2026 10

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Is Cambridge's state school diversity obsession over?

09.01.2026 10

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There's a better way for Farage to win the motorist vote

07.01.2026 10

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The truth about Keir Starmer's EU 'reset'

06.01.2026 30

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The RMT has doomed the Oxford-Cambridge railway

02.01.2026 10

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Milibandism / I have a ‘zero bill’ home – and you’re paying for it

31.12.2025 30

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I have a ‘zero bill’ home – and you’re paying for it

30.12.2025 10

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Global Disinformation Index / America is better off without Clare Melford

30.12.2025 10

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America is better off without Clare Melford

29.12.2025 20

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Politics / Would promising to rejoin the EU save Labour?

22.12.2025 5

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Would promising to rejoin the EU save Labour?

22.12.2025 20

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Car crash / Why is the Motability boss getting a bumper pay rise?

20.12.2025 20

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Why is the Motability boss getting a bumper pay rise?

19.12.2025 10

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Did Britain need to rejoin Erasmus?

17.12.2025 9

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Europe's EV market is rolling backwards

12.12.2025 9

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Send up / The special needs racket is out of control

10.12.2025 6

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Will I ever be a juror?

10.12.2025 10

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The day net zero died

02.12.2025 8

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Starmer’s workers’ rights U-turn is a small victory for business

28.11.2025 10

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