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Keir Starmer was elected for no reason other than to repudiate the Conservatives. He failed to chart any path forward, like so many of his predecessors, writes Douglas Murray.

The agreement gives billions of dollars to the Iranian regime early on in return for their promise to cease the murderous behavior they have engaged in for decades, writes Douglas Murray.

Douglas embodies the best of The Free Press. He’ll be writing in our pages on the biggest issues of the day, every week.

What are the circumstances in which it is right to smash up a building? When might one justifiably destroy an artwork? And what are the conditions under which one might splinter someone’s spine with a sledgehammer? Many on the left seem to have satisfied themselves on all these questions.

I get the sense that the political and media class badly miss Katie Hopkins. Back when the reality TV star was still a regular on our screens and in our newspapers, she could be relied upon to be the focus of attention whenever the people in charge didn’t want the public’s attention to be focused […]

I wonder how many readers have ever heard of the name Kriss Donald? The young Glaswegian was just 15 years old in 2004 when he was kidnapped by a local gang of Pakistani men.

When I first moved to America, I made a determined effort to read up on American history.

What would you say if your spouse bought a luxury campervan? I know what I would say – something along the lines of: ‘Get that thing away from me. I refuse to spend wet weekends campervanning around the Highlands, and I don’t care whether the bathroom facilities are “luxury” or not.’

Every new technology brings fears.

The Labour party seems to have ignored the advice I gave it in last week’s column, and so we are going to be treated to one of those down-market beauty pageants where candidates for the Labour leadership spend weeks talking competitively about the evils of Thatcherism…

In a piece which has already been widely debunked, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times claimed that Israeli prison guards routinely use rape as a method of torture on Palestinian prisoners.

My own song version might not top the charts as D:Ream’s did, but mine has the benefit of being true. ‘Things Can Always Get Worse’