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OP26’s a vanity project for the global elite and eco-alarmist kids who’ve never paid a tax bill

Every aspect of conferences such as COP26 is always the same. The world’s political elite fly in by private jets to tell the rest of us we should cut down on commercial air travel.

Weak Tories are taking us back to the seventies

High taxes, rotten public services and cowardice in the face of the hard-Left was Labour’s legacy then. This time it will be Boris Johnson’s

What if Clinton had come clean?

What if Bill Clinton had told the truth? Would America’s sexual and political history be different?

Why do the French have to be so, er, French?

EVERY country on Earth has a neighbour they love to hate.

Woe betide the world if Biden listens too closely to Pope Francis

The Pope may yet prove to have far more influence than Sanders, “the squad” or any of the other leftists pulling at Biden’s coat-sleeves.

Britain’s fatal unwillingness to confront Islamic extremism

More than any other country in the West, Britain has become practised in the arts of self-deception and subject avoidance.

Why are we so paralysed into NOT talking about Islamist terrorism?

It has not even been a week since the brutal slaughter of Sir David Amess. The frenzied stabbing to death of another of our MPs should have shocked our whole political system.

The pandemic has made cynics of us all

Areport by MPs into the spread of the coronavirus has concluded that the government’s approach constituted one of this country’s worst ever public health failures.

Lars Vilks, Lonely Hero of the ‘Cartoon Wars’

For drawing Mohammed, he and others were attacked and mostly abandoned

The technocrats of the European Union won’t be able to survive the next French revolution

The Right-wing writer Eric Zemmour has pushed aside the Le Pens, and now poses a serious challenge to Emmanuel Macron

Should we be worried that China’s brazen show of force in Taiwan risks hurtling globe into World War Three?

China’s actions risk turning the Cold War into a hot war

The tactics of victimhood

Late last week the Labour deputy leader was the subject of a glowing profile in the Times. The piece described Angela Rayner’s alleged physical similarity to Nicole Kidman, spoke indulgently of her ‘outspokenness’ and otherwise confirmed my suspicion that most of the people who go into politics should never be allowed near the stuff.