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Red trickle has an upside: GOP can get better, but Democrats won’t

Ron DeSantis’ big win Tuesday shows he should be the future of the Republican Party.

Oh dear Donald Trump, do you really want to be a bigger loser than Hillary Clinton?

The American Republican Right have been predicting that this week’s midterm elections would smack their Democrat opponents right where it hurts.

Donors can hit woke universities where it hurts

Money talks, and furious alumni are making their voices heard. It is only the beginning of the fightback

The negligence of ‘not in my lifetime’

All my life, home secretaries have said a few tough things about immigration in order to please their grassroots, and otherwise have kicked the whole thing down the road.

Seriously, can anyone name a well-run Democratic city?

As we draw closer to polling day, there is really only one question anyone needs to have in their head. Are things better or worse than when America last went to the polls?

MPs aren’t elected to make a priority of people breaking into our country illegally – fix it or you’ll be out Rishi

According to the BBC and other left-wing media, our Home Secretary should never have used ‘invasion’ to describe the illegal boats that are coming to our country

The West’s uncivilised euthanasia policy

I have written here before about the oddity of euthanasia laws in Belgium and the Netherlands. Each time I have, people say: ‘You’re getting all slippery slope on us, Douglas.’ And in some ways they’re right, as euthanasia clearly is a slippery slope – perhaps the slipperiest of all.

Joe Biden’s presidency has failed in its central task: to unite a fractious America

The upcoming mid-terms will be a judgment on the President’s decision to pander to the radical Left

Twitter pretended to care about free speech – now with Elon Musk at the helm it’s set free from the woke left

“THE bird is freed”. That is what Elon Musk tweeted yesterday on the news that he has finally taken over Twitter, the emblem of which is a ­little blue bird.

Trevor Noah has to invent a racist backlash because liberals can’t stand color-blind societies

Trevor Noah used a whole segment to talk about the “racist backlash” that he claimed had followed Rishi Sunak’s appointment as this week’s British Prime Minister.

Rishi Sunak has been a consistent voice of sanity – now he needs to battle lunacy of our ballooning welfare state

SEVERAL times over the past 1,000 years of our history, we have had a year of the three kings. Well, 2022 turns out to be the year of the three Prime Ministers.

How to protest the protestors

I have been able to find a great deal of consolation over recent days in watching members of the public confronting protestors from the Just Stop Oil movement.