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The triumph of Katharine Birbalsingh

The school’s success is a rebuke to a whole class of malevolent or criminally inept educationalists

Fentanyl-laced drugs aren’t ‘someone else’s problem’

If this country is going to get serious about its epidemic of lost lives, perhaps we should think, “OK, maybe it won’t be you. But it could be someone you love. It could easily be someone you know.”

The Call to Take Up Arms Against Napoleon

In a 1799 speech, the British prime minister warned that ‘the monster’ could not be left ‘to prowl the world unopposed.’

Israel is running out of options

No one, left or right, would be doing anything different from what Netanyahu is doing now

City of Brotherly Love needs tough love to free it from scourge of tranq

It is to get the most lethal drugs on the streets of New York and “safe-use” sites had become magnets for dealers and addicts. Such sites are fought over. Do they help addicts use safely? Or do they normalize lethal behavior?

The Biggest Threat to America’s Liberty

In 1858, Abraham Lincoln argued that our union could not survive unless we removed the ‘cancer’ that is slavery.

The game’s up for ‘anti-racist’ racism

A new generation have seen through the race-hustle of some of their elders

Up close and too personal with America’s fentanyl epidemic

It is very easy to find fentanyl in New York. The drug that in 2022 alone killed nearly 110,000 Americans is readily available right here on the streets of this city.

The Resurrection of the Body and the Immortality of the Soul

Preacher-poet John Donne gave voice to his faith with a sermon on how God will raise the dead.

In defence of forgiveness

You only have to put one step wrong to be wrong for ever

RFK’s Tribute to a Slain Hero

Hours after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Kennedy called upon a crowd to find ‘wisdom through the awful grace of God.’

The police have given up on actual crime

Last November, the Met arrested a man for criticising the number of Palestinian flags in his area