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Mark Carney will regret tying Canada to the EU

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney says he welcomes the EU’s ‘ambition’ for Canada to become an associate member. He should drop these pretensions about a ‘unique partnership’ and opt instead for a...

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Rebranding net zero is daft

Would renaming the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero really make it easier for the government to persuade the public of the benefits of net zero? The select committee with the same name seems...

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Ed Sheeran has done nothing wrong

So now we know what happens if you refuse to prostrate yourself before the Gaza cult. If you politely decline wearing the keffiyeh like a holy shroud and chanting “Free Palestine” on a mindless loop....

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The Scottish Parliament fills me with knuckle-chewing horror

Watching the proceedings of the Scottish Parliament, a thought often occurs: if these people won elections, imagine the runners up. The runner-up to the SNP’s Collette Stevenson in East Kilbride was...

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Why would Canada want to hitch itself to the EU?

“Canada has what the world wants,” Mark Carney likes to tell people. But what does Canada want? The European Union, apparently. The bloc’s President, Ursula von der Leyen, has announced that Canada...

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Why green zealots want to drop ‘net zero’

First, the good news. The Commons select committee on energy security and net zero has called on the government to drop net zero. Now the bad news: they only mean the term ‘net zero’ not the actual...

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Watch: Sadiq Khan addresses Zack Polanski in Urdu

Zack Polanski was left red-faced at City Hall this morning after Sadiq Khan answered a question from the Green leader in Urdu. In a cringeworthy bid to woo Muslim voters across the country, Polanski...

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Does Andrew Griffith have what it takes?

Appointments to the shadow cabinet recall Ernest Shackleton’s job advert to cross the Antarctic. ‘Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant...

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The Bank holding interest rates will be of little relief for John Healey

The Bank of England has just voted six-three to hold interest rates at 3.75 per cent, a decision that makes Britain’s central bank an outlier following rate hikes from both the European Central Bank...

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The Houthis are complicating Trump’s already failing war

To lose one Middle East sea lane vital for the global economy may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. As every armchair strategist knows, Donald Trump has lost free...

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Is Charles Spencer right about King Charles? 

As soon as news broke that copies of Charles Spencer’s memoir about the late Princess of Wales, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, had been stolen from a truck in the Netherlands, it was inevitable that the...

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Who’s afraid of AI?

It’s not often that we get a ringside seat to the Birth of a Narrative. Usually, those overseeing the parturition are careful to manage the event offstage, away from the prying eyes of skeptics,...

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Mehdi Hasan is losing the argument on hijabs in schools

When you title your book Win Every Argument, you create the very definition of a hostage to fortune. So it’s especially unfortunate that Mehdi Hasan, the author of said book, is an inveterate poster on...

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How to deal with a bore like Macklemore

Exciting news: free speech is high-status again. The decision by the organisers of Ed Sheeran’s US tour to drop anti-Israel rapper Macklemore is being greeted by the left as an outrageous assault on...

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Lucy Letby and the truth about NHS managers

Read the Thirlwall report on the neonatal deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital, and two kinds of culpability emerge. Lucy Letby stands convicted of murder. Thirlwall describes a unit in which...

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Watch: Polanski butchers his French

Ooh là là, Zack Polanski is at it again. Two days after his Urdu campaign video landed with a thud, the Green leader has returned with a sequel, this time en français. The accent, Mr S hears, has...

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When will Labour ‘do their bit’ on illegal immigration?

Lisa Nandy’s media-round sounds like the sort of thing you might be signed up to if you failed to make the cut as a Newsround Press Packer. Unfortunately for us, it’s actually a key part of the...

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Green party activists turn on ‘genocide denier’ Zack Polanski

Green party activists have moaned they are reluctant to campaign for Zack Polanski because he is not sufficiently anti-Zionist, The Spectator can reveal. In WhatsApp groups, senior Green members...

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Watch: Labour MP calls for war against Israel

Not content with spending his time campaigning for an airport in Pakistan, Labour’s Tahir Ali has now called for Britain to invade Israel. The Birmingham Hall Green & Moseley MP used a Commons...

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The Thirlwall report makes for grim reading for Lucy Letby’s supporters

Lady Thirlwall prefaced the launch of her report yesterday with the same message that she launched her public inquiry with two years ago. This was not about the guilt or innocence of Lucy Letby, she...

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