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We must wish Liz Truss well but not making immigration a key priority is a mistake – if she doesn’t fix it she’ll be out

If you don’t have borders then that national health service becomes an international health service, available to people who have never paid into it but can take whatever they like out of it.

Green parties are facing a reality check

Will environmentalists take note of what is happening to their counterparts in Germany?

There are 100 times more migrants crossing the Channel than in 2018 – so why won’t government accept its a crisis?

It is now four years since our then Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, declared the boatloads of illegal migrants crossing the channel to be a “major incident”.

It’s time woke politicians faced the consequences of their own beliefs

In America, supporters of illegal immigration are finally seeing the reality on their own doorsteps

Salman Rushdie and a question of power

Whenever a terrorist attack occurs, like the recent attempted assassination of Salman Rushdie, our society falls into the usual platitudes.

UVA students’ efforts to erase Jefferson from campus more than just Tom-foolery

Students at University of Virginia are calling to have Thomas Jefferson’s name removed from university buildings.

Ron DeSantis can beat the man at Mar-a-Lago

The effective Florida governor must prise the Republican Party from Trump’s hands if it is to stand a chance in 2024

Michael Gove’s faultless prophecy

Backstabbing has never seemed so prudent

Ineptitude and institutional wokery is the tragic legacy of Tory rule

The first task for the new PM must be to answer why – after 12 years in office – a Left-wing agenda continues unabated

Spending is not the answer to every problem

In America, even the left accepts that public borrowing cannot be bottomless and state meddling must have its limits

How is Biden still doing deal with Iran after assassination bids on US soil?

The free world’s media might have reported what happened to Rushdie with horror. But Iran’s state-run press reveled in the attack, using their front pages to show Rushdie burning in hellfire, decapitated or with his head in a noose.

Isolated Russia’s growing links with sinister states like North Korea, Iran and China is evidence of a new Axis of Evil

Putin’s isolated Russia’s growing links with sinister states like North Korea, Iran and China is evidence of a new Axis of Evil