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I admit, I miss Kamala Harris, as life in this country hasn’t been the same without her presence.

I think by now most of us can spot a double standard when we see one. So let me try two out on you. In what situation is it acceptable to denounce an MP or parliamentary candidate as ‘not very British’ or even someone who ‘doesn’t get our values, our culture, or our history’.

There are a lot of differences between 2003 and today.

They say you should never meet your heroes, a rule that is not always correct. But I did have a salutary session some years ago when a friend in New York asked me if I wanted to meet a comedian I really do admire.

The Board of Peace was started in order to try to secure the situation in Gaza. And if the President succeeds in that then he deserves every accolade.

I have never been the greatest fan of libertarianism as a political ideology. Libertarians seem to me to be the bisexuals of politics – they want a bit of everything. But even I felt a slight twinge of libertarian sentiment this week when I read some remarks by our Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood.

I think it was Zadie Smith who I first heard point out that race is in America what class is in Britain: the conversation underneath every conversation. When I first heard that remark I slightly baulked. Not least because one had rather hoped that class would be less of a thing in Britain in the […]

There have been times in the past couple of decades when people have wondered what US defense spending is for.

A friend mentioned to me last week that a third of young women in the UK are planning to vote for the Green party under its wonderful new leader, Zack Polanski. Bad as I tend to expect things to be, even I thought that surely things can’t be that bad.

What would you like the priorities of His Majesty’s government to be? I have quite a long list. Sorting out the economy would certainly be up there, as would closing the border.

The ‘diversity is our strength’ lobby is wrong. Jihadists want all of us to die.

Ever since President Trump decided to clean up Washington, DC, crime in the city has gone down in drastic numbers.