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Are vegetarians really hungry for power?
The secret is out: vegetarians are ‘tougher’ and more ‘power-hungry’ than meat eaters, according to a study in the Times this morning.…
SNP ferry fiasco worsens. Again
Back to Scotland, where yet another ferry is facing further delays. The MV Glen Rosa, which is being built at…
Gary Lineker blocked from addressing Jewish writer’s memorial
Gary Lineker may have been finally forced out of the Beeb, but the ex-footballer is still managing to make headlines.…
The battle of the Channel has been fought – and lost
Kemi Badenoch says the Conservative party will take a look at withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR),…
Britain must learn from France’s e-scooter mistake
An e-scooter revolution is coming to Britain whether the country likes it or not. “The revolution will hurt a little,…
Greta Thunberg should thank Israel for intercepting her Gaza selfie ship
Once again, the Mediterranean has hosted a familiar theatre of self-satisfied spectacle. This time, however, the curtain has come down…
Will Donald Trump’s defenders finally admit the truth?
So, there we have it. The President of the United States wants to bypass state governors and deploy the National…
In Essex, the only way is Reform
The country is slipping away. The whole place, slowly, but London suddenly, blinding glass slabs becoming East End blocks, ‘SPLENDID…
Worrying about migration doesn’t make you an extremist
This country still has a problem with a radical ideology. News that the government’s anti-radicalisation programme, Prevent, now classifies concerns about mass…
Is Reform a right-wing party?
If the problem with Labour is that it believes in nothing, the problem with Reform is that it believes in…
Leo Varadkar and the real story of the Imane Khelif gender scandal
Remember when Leo Varadkar egged on someone with male strength who was punching women in the face? It sounds made up,…
Head of the prison officers’ union: we should halve the prison population
The Prison Officers’ Association (POA) and its national chair Mark Fairhurst have a reputation for always wanting prisons to be…
The sad decline of the Scottish Kirk
My memory is that October is cold in Sutherland in the Highlands of Scotland. Come to think of it, my…
Erin Patterson’s mushroom murder case is Australia’s Trial of the Century
Since its general election a month ago, Australia’s politics have endured their biggest upheaval in fifty years. Its Labor government…
Why Zia Yusuf changed his mind about quitting Reform
Well, that was quick. Within 48 hours of his resignation as party chairman, Zia Yusuf has returned to the Reform…
Hamas doesn’t hold a monopoly on Palestinian terror
Israeli forces operating inside Gaza have retrieved the body of Thai agricultural worker Nattapong Pinta, bringing to a close one…
Why won’t the Met Police deal with Palestine protestors blocking parliament?
Does the Metropolitan Police have more respect for the rights of aggressive protestors than it does for Parliament itself? That’s…
How an international community of do-gooders made the US lose the plot in Yemen
As British Ambassador to Yemen from 2015 to 2017, and later in counterterrorism roles at the UN, I watched with…
The truth about the 1984 miners’ strike
On 6 March 1984, I found myself smack-bang in the middle of the largest industrial dispute in post-war history. As…
How Britain can borrow America’s top scientists
From the time of Newton, Britain led the world in science. That began to change in 1940, when, with the…
What happened to Piers Morgan?
There was great fanfare when Piers Morgan re-entered the world of television three years ago to front a new prime-time…
What being kidnapped taught me about the struggle for Kurdish independence
Twenty-one years ago, I was opportunistically kidnapped by supporters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). In light of the PKK…
Tesco’s ‘VAR’-style self-checkout cameras are the final straw
Tesco has followed Sainsbury’s lead by installing cameras above self-checkouts to identify when shoppers fail to scan an item properly, using the…
Biden’s FBI targeted ‘radical traditionalist’ Catholics
Most Catholics were well aware of Joe Biden’s, at best, tepid observation of Catholic teachings as president. But even they…
The strange futility of the Musk-Trump feud
The Trump-Musk spat is not the sign of a new split between oligarchs and populists, as some have claimed –…
