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I’m not sure how many readers know the name of Anthony Smith, who died on Sunday aged 83, but a fair number will.

Donald Trump’s malevolent presence is wrecking the GOP. But who will dare take him on?

Orchestras shouldn’t be affirmative-action programs

Instead of combating this alarmist ideology with facts and reason, our authority figures have only pandered to it

In such cases anybody can be whatever you want them to be. Convicted paedophiles, armed with guns, stalking around Kenosha threatening to shoot people can be turned into ‘peaceful protestors’. White men can be made black. Fires that burn on camera for all to see can be erased from the collective memory. A thug can […]

So more than half of young people have fallen for a doomsday cult that terrifies them on a daily basis.

Brussels purports to be a guardian of rights, but is strangely silent about the treatment of the unjabbed

Could the government engage in action rather than words please?

Most people have never heard of Paul Lincoln, the outgoing head of the UK Border Force until he gave his departure speech to colleagues. As boatloads of illegal migrants were streaming into the UK last week, he said ‘Bloody borders are just such a pain in the bloody arse’

Lords reform is one of the world’s least interesting debates, not just because it is insoluble but because it keeps missing the deeper point. Which is that nobody in either House has very much power anyway.

As our vainglorious politicians gathered in Glasgow to virtue-signal about the climate, China and Russia were busy making plans

Glenn Youngkin’s winning campaign in Virginia partly focused on the hugely galvanising issue of Critical Race Theory