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I tempted fate – and got Covid

Well, I did warn you. As I typed my column last week on the imminent end of Covid I said I knew that I was tempting fate.

Chinese ‘agent’ Christine Lee scandal proves how easily MPs can be targeted & our country can be potentially compromised

PARLIAMENT has been infiltrated. In a shocking development today, the domestic intelligence service MI5 revealed that a Chinese spy has been operating in Parliament.

Boris Johnson has utterly failed to back up his anti-woke rhetoric with action

The few bright spots on the Government’s record have not been enough to thwart a woke takeover

The time has come to get on with our lives

The current fixation with lockdowns and similar restrictions is unsustainable. Life, in all of its forms, must simply be allowed to go on.

Sleepy Joe Biden has sowed more division that Donald Trump ever did and emboldened Putin

IT looks like January 6 is going to become some kind of national anti-holiday in the US.

When the Right Plays With Jew-Hate

Douglas Murray on a noxious incident that should not go ignored.

Boris Johnson, you got Brexit done… now let’s get it done better

IF anyone ever wonders whether Brexit was a good idea, there is always one way to feel better. Which is to look across the Channel to see what the EU is doing.

This narrow obsession with Covid has starved our lives of meaning

Christmas is a chance to lift our sights beyond entertainment, sport, and the pandemic

Our growing unwillingness to understand the past

Our ability to see more than a couple of inches in front of our faces remains humblingly limited.

British politics has turned into a toxic spectator sport with no winners

The fairground attraction of Boris’s Number 10 suddenly seems to have lost all of its amusement value

Does Kamala Harris deserve to be vice president?

Is it rude to refer to the Vice President of the USA as the world’s most famous diversity hire? Possibly. But it is the same with so many things that are true.

This absurd panic will cost us our health, our businesses, our education, our livelihoods…and our children

The virus is deadly for very few people, dangerous for others and wholly unimportant for most of us. We have to stop living as though this virus is Ebola. It isn’t.