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How to buy influence in Britain

It is also very sensible of the CCP to gather information on those who might be critical of it. After all, there is a fight within the Conservative party, as in almost all western political parties, about what to do regarding China

China’s facing serious domestic issues – and that means trouble for us all

WESTMINSTER was rocked this week by spying claims.

Lampedusa, Italy, shows America the future of lawless immigration

The tiny Italian island of Lampedusa should be a holiday paradise. The most southerly territory of Italy lies exactly between that country and North Africa.

An Elegy for a Young Man

Poet Thom Gunn found his greatest—and most harrowing—subject in the AIDS epidemic.

Hunter Biden could hand Donald Trump the keys to the White House. Poor America

Many voters, on both sides of the aisle, no longer believe Lady Justice is blind. And who can blame them

The delicious schadenfreude of Burning Man

The 2017 Fyre festival was meant to be the greatest, most luxurious and exclusive party of the century. It turned out to be a fraudulent and incompetent catastrophe, with attendees put up in refugee tents as they realised they had been had and planned their escape routes.

New York was built on endeavour of immigrants… now it’s hit by a $10billion migrants crisis that will ‘destroy the city’

In America this week, people learned of a far-left politician who had until recently been committed to “dismantling” police departments across America.

Pence can’t turn the clock back on the Republican Party

Mike Pence gave an interesting speech this week. Which isn’t a sentence you read often. But in his speech in New Hampshire Pence argued that the Republican party is at an inflection point.

Send illegal migrants to Islington – see how liberal opinion likes it then

Generational failures in the UK and US have led us to the point where drastic measures are necessary

One Equal Temper of Heroic Hearts

Lord Tennyson’s poem lauds the strength of human will ‘to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.’

George Osborne’s midlife crisis

If you become the chairman of the British Museum, there is one rather obvious way to try to please people.

Quick work permits for migrants is unfair way to make crisis worse

Everyone who has moved to this country to work here legally can swop horror stories of the grinding procedures, the lengthy processing times, and the expense.