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George Santos takes the cake, but why does Joe Biden get a pass for his lies?

Rep.-elect George Santos has been under fire for a laundry list of lies he seems to have boasted to give a boost to his career.

There’s no cause for optimism about broken Britain

Despair at the way the country is running isn’t a passing mood, it’s based on objective reality

This is no time for contrarianism on Ukraine

I’ve seen first hand how Zelensky’s forces can win this war, but they can’t do so without the unwavering support of the US

We must rescue America’s heroes from those who tear them down

Murray’s latest podcast “Uncancelled History” focuses on American historical figures who have been at the forefront of scrutiny in recent years.

How to save the BBC

The BBC’s archives may be the greatest treasure that the institution has. Were it to make more of it available, it might do the corporation a great amount of good – not just in raising revenue but in raising goodwill too.

GOP is wasting a winning hand with Marjorie Taylor Greene, Trump

Republicans have continued to focus their efforts on Trump and other controversial members of the Republican Party.

Britain doesn’t need reinventing

Blair and his colleagues thought they could begin Britain anew. Instead they set up a raft of problems, many of which we are living with today.

The secrets of Hunter Biden’s laptop spell trouble for Joe

ay the name “Hunter Biden” in North America and you can divide a room immediately. Around half see the story of the president’s son as one of the great scandals of the modern political age. About another half think it is a distraction at best, at worst an embarrassment it is necessary to ignore.

Why should striking rail and postal workers get a big pay rise while our pay packets remain stagnant or worse?

A Government that seems to know it is on the way out. Sky-high inflation. Strikes. Unions threatening us. Union leaders becoming household names again. And politicians siding with the strikers.

America’s race-obsessed elites have declared war on British institutions

Our universal tolerance and respect for duty are anathema to those who benefit from racial divisions

Twitter’s suppression of Hunter Biden’s laptop isn’t a conspiracy theory — it’s a conspiracy

“Conspiracy theorist” is one of the great insults of our day. It was thrown at me onstage the other night by the popular pseudo-guru and full-time intellectual fraud Malcolm Gladwell.

The new vandals: how museums turned on their own collections

In today’s Britain it is to be expected that our cultural institutions are run by people who hate the collection in their care as well as our culture and our history more broadly.