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Climate change reparations could wreck Britain

As he walks into No. 10, Andy Burnham needs to be aware that the UK stands exposed to an avalanche of spurious and hugely expensive legal claims from...

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Richard Ekins

Could an independent steal Farage’s thunder?

Nigel Farage has never been afraid to gamble, and many times before he’s seen his big bets pay off. His decision to resign as the MP for Clacton and...

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Luke Tryl

Peace dividend / The new arms race is intra-European

I think I’ve finally figured out why the leaders of Europe are so upset at the United States. The never-ending outpouring of rage from European and...

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Michael Hochberg

Books / Are good people made by good surroundings, or the other way round?

How can Britain cut its spiralling benefits budget and the number of alienated youths spending taxpayer-generated monies on frivolous consumer goods,...

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Stuart Jeffries

Television / The World Cup is evil

James Delingpole has narrated this article for you to listen to. I tried to think, Pointless-style, of two of the countries least likely to be...

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James Delingpole

Trans rights / The fuss over gay conversion therapy is a charade

Politicians love banning things. Even if the threats they worry about don’t actually exist. In February 2019, amid Conservative defections and the...

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Lara Brown

Books / Are good people made by good surroundings, or the other way round?

How can Britain cut its spiralling benefits budget and the number of alienated youths spending taxpayer-generated monies on frivolous consumer goods,...

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Stuart Jeffries

In praise of Ian Gilmour

In late 1954, the proprietor of these august pages, Sir Angus Watson of Skippers Sardines fame, thought he was selling his magazine to the son...

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Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri

Let’s have a Boomer Summer

Close your eyes and cast your mind back, if you will, to the summer of 2024. Britain had just crowned a new prime minister, our fortunes in a major...

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Nancy Alsop

Nobody goes to Wimbledon for the tennis

Two hours and 17 minutes after arriving at Wimbledon, I realise I hate tennis. Hate it? I loathe it. All ‘40-love’ jargon and...

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Katie Jenkins

The perfect sycophancy of an AI running coach

If there’s one thing more boring than people telling you about their dreams, it’s people telling you about their exercise. And...

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Angus Colwell

Andy Burnham is Britain’s Biden

Watching Andy Burnham in Manchester, dressed in his T-shirt and jacket and pronouncing the return of a more old-fashioned, pro-worker left, I had a...

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Alex Morton

‘Is Andrew free already?’

The 2018 Florida governor’s race will go down as one of the great sliding-doors moments in American politics. Ron DeSantis, after “begging” for...

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Cockburn

Graham Platner’s defenders are the biggest losers of his implosion

Democrats are finally pulling the plug on Graham Platner, the failson whose juvenile addiction to schizophrenic online message boards, rad Nazi...

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Isaac Schorr

What is Farage’s game?

It is a mark of Nigel Farage’s position on the nation’s consciousness that he has succeeded in pushing the judgement in the Prince Harry vs...

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Ross Clark

The government must protect our coastguard

A helicopter took off from Sandown on the Isle of Wight during August bank holiday last summer in what should have been a routine flying lesson,...

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Joe Robertson

Rupert Lowe ducks Farage’s Clacton by-election

Rupert Lowe has confirmed that Restore will sit out the upcoming Clacton by-election. Nigel Farage’s enemy on the right said he refuses ‘to...

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Steerpike

Farage versus the world

He probably won’t want to hear this but there is an air of General De Gaulle about Nigel Farage. De Gaulle came to define French politics through a...

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Madeline Grant

Farage has taken back control of the political narrative

Nigel Farage, the Reform leader, has come out fighting in response to the intense scrutiny and revelations about his personal finances. He says he...

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Jawad Iqbal

‘Phone hacking’ / Prince Harry has lost his most high-stakes gamble

It was always going to go this way. Every gambler eventually loses, and the higher profile that loss, the greater the eventual humiliation. But...

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Alexander Larman

Farage resigns to fight Clacton by-election

Nigel Farage has announced he is resigning from the House of Commons to fight a by-election in Clacton. In a 16-minute live statement from Milbank...

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James Heale

Trump brings the thunder for America’s 250th birthday

Who ever let a spot of rain get in the way of a good time? Donald Trump’s July 4 festivities were delayed by several hours due to the threat of...

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Matt McDonald

Germany is quietly falling apart

In Germany, the trains have stopped running on time, bridges have been shut over safety fears, and the country’s largest carmaker, Volkswagen, is...

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Henry Donovan

The World Cup has revived American soft power

Not only were the England fans outnumbered by 30 to one inside the Azteca stadium, but on their way to and from the game they had to run a gauntlet of...

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Toby Young

Trump reveals the limits of American power

Donald Trump’s quest for regime change in Iran has backfired horribly. The president misunderstood the resilience of the 47-year-old Islamic...

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Klaus Dodds

Should Paul Pelosi be on the road?

When President Trump refers to Nancy Pelosi as “Nervous Nancy,” you might assume he’s talking about her policies or leadership style. But maybe...

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Cockburn

History lesson / What Britain taught us

Being in Britain around the Fourth of July is always an odd experience for an American. It was especially awkward to be at the Alliance for...

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Daniel McCarthy

In vino veritas / Drinking 2009 Mouton Rothschild at Butterworth’s

I have always wondered whether The Compleat Angler, Izaak Walton’s piscine classic, would have enjoyed its wide and longstanding recognition absent...

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Roger Kimball

The Knicks are New York itself

Earlier this year, a poll conducted by the University of Massachusetts and the market research firm YouGov found that 70 percent of Americans have a...

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Josie Cox

What Trump and Erdoğan want from each other

Donald Trump has made it clear that he’s attending this year’s Nato summit in Ankara for one reason only: ‘respect for President Erdogan.’...

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Owen Matthews

The vulgarity of the Swift-Kelce wedding

When Taylor Swift, the billionaire pop star, announced her engagement to Travis Kelce, the rather less wealthy (although still multi-millionaire) NFL...

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Alexander Larman

Elon Musk should buy Xbox. Yes, really

Elon Musk is hardly lacking for toys. He can spend the morning digging vast tunnels with Hyperloop, the afternoon launching rockets with SpaceX and...

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Gus Carter

Will the ‘anti-Trump playbook’ work in Britain?

Commentators were so busy fulminating against Trump’s Fifa shenanigans yesterday they mostly missed his intervention in the big story now roiling...

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Freddy Gray

It must be harder for the NHS to strike

The BMA makes lots of vague demands for recognition and autonomy, control and civility – Madeline Grant, hearing similar words coming from Angela...

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Druin Burch

Will Le Pen run for president wearing an ankle tag?

Marine Le Pen has failed to overturn her conviction for misusing EU funds. On Tuesday afternoon a court in Paris upheld the verdict against her,...

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Gavin Mortimer

Will the ‘anti-Trump playbook’ work in Britain?

Commentators were so busy fulminating against Trump’s Fifa shenanigans yesterday they mostly missed his intervention yesterday in the big story now...

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Freddy Gray

Miliband’s heat pump revolution leaves taxpayers in the cold

Red Ed Miliband’s heat pump bonanza cost taxpayers and bill-payers an eye-watering £498.6 million in 2025/26, new research shows. So much for the...

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Steerpike

What Trump and Erdogan want from each other

Donald Trump has made it clear that he’s attending this year’s Nato summit in Ankara for one reason only: ‘respect for President Erdogan.’...

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Owen Matthews

Do doctors think tax rises shouldn’t apply to them?

‘Only the little people pay taxes,’ New York hotel tycoon Leona Helmsley was once reputed to have said. She later discovered, as she was jailed...

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Ross Clark

Still life / Blood, sweat and tears on the road to Nice

Straight from a weekend of helping a friend with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, I drove to Nice airport to pick up my eldest daughter, her...

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Catriona Olding

No life / The day the bishop hit me in the face

The bishop hit us in the face. That was the best thing about confirmation. When I was 12, along with every other boy in the school, I was formally...

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Lloyd Evans

Ancient and modern / How to paint like the ancient Greeks

Last week David Hockney was cited as an example of a great English artist who insisted on working, like ancient Greek sculptors, in a well-established...

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Peter Jones

Why Albanese’s Kylie remarks went down so badly in Australia

Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, is someone who wants to be liked even more than respected. He wants to be seen by Australians as one...

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Terry Barnes

Labour’s tinpot free speech crackdown

We’re in the middle of an ‘orderly transition’ of power from Keir Starmer to whoever might just possibly take over from him – it’s...

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Gareth Roberts

This Nato summit will be Starmer’s final humiliation

Sir Keir Starmer attended his first Nato summit in Washington, DC four days after becoming Prime Minister in July 2024. Now, almost exactly two years...

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Eliot Wilson

Ancient and modern / How to paint like the ancient Greeks

Last week David Hockney was cited as an example of a great English artist who insisted on working, like ancient Greek sculptors, in a well-established...

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Peter Jones

Still life / Blood, sweat and tears on the road to Nice

Straight from a weekend of helping a friend with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, I drove to Nice airport to pick up my eldest daughter, her...

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Catriona Olding

No life / The day the bishop hit me in the face

The bishop hit us in the face. That was the best thing about confirmation. When I was 12, along with every other boy in the school, I was formally...

yesterday 9

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Lloyd Evans

Ancient and modern / How to paint like the ancient Greeks

Last week David Hockney was cited as an example of a great English artist who insisted on working, like ancient Greek sculptors, in a well-established...

yesterday 10

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Peter Jones

Still life / Blood, sweat and tears on the road to Nice

Straight from a weekend of helping a friend with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, I drove to Nice airport to pick up my eldest daughter, her...

yesterday 9

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Catriona Olding