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Evolve: Advance’s masterclass in rebuilding hope

Evolve: Advance’s masterclass in rebuilding hope

Much to the collective annoyance of left-wing media, Advance Australia hosted their excellent Evolve conference last Friday and Saturday. The event’s opening remarks made it clear that the political winds of global conservatism are blowing a gale everywhere except within Australia. Around the world, politics is changing. Donald Trump is in the White ...
No, Zelensky: World War Three hasn’t started

No, Zelensky: World War Three hasn’t started

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that World War Three has already started. Speaking to the BBC on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Russian invasion, it’s understandable why he would want to take this line, but he’s wrong. What is striking about Putin is the lack of a messianic ideology On an emotional level, Zelensky has seen ...
Watch: Martin Lewis confronts Kemi Badenoch

Watch: Martin Lewis confronts Kemi Badenoch

Oh dear. It seems that Martin Lewis, the self-styled ‘Money Saving Expert’, has come a bit of a cropper in his attempts to prove that he is the smartest one in the room. Kemi Badenoch was out on the airwaves this morning, promoting the Tories’ plan to cut the interest on student loans. But Lewis leapt at the chance to intervene, ambushing her on the ...
Does Andrew make the case for republicanism?

Does Andrew make the case for republicanism?

So: is the game up? Looking at the former Prince Andrew’s slumped posture, corpse-grey face and thousand-yard stare in the snatched photographs of him leaving police custody, you might be tempted to think so. He looked like Ebenezer Scrooge confronted by the Ghost of Christmas Future. The future certainly doesn’t hold anything very uplifting for this ...
El Mencho’s death plunges Mexico into chaos

El Mencho’s death plunges Mexico into chaos

Mayhem has erupted across Mexico after security forces eliminated Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the drug lord widely known as El Mencho, in a gun battle in the town of Tapalpa. El Mencho was the head of one of Mexico’s most violent and sadistic organisations, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). Henchmen forced passengers out of their cars before ...
Can Reform really make Britain Christian again?

Can Reform really make Britain Christian again?

Lent has barely begun, yet on the right of British politics the resurrection has already arrived. God, it seems, is back on the ballot. In the great schism of parties beginning with “re”, Rupert Lowe has launched his bid to “Restore Britain”, positioning himself as the more muscular alternative to Nigel Farage’s Reform. Restore promises to go further ...
How Britain learnt to turn a blind eye to shariah

How Britain learnt to turn a blind eye to shariah

The more excitable and less well-educated elements of the liberal left are forever apt to observe that politics today resemble those of the 1930s, being prone to denounce a development or policy they disdain as being ‘just like Nazi Germany’. To be fair, they have a point. It’s not just the street brawls we’ve seen in Manchester and Lyon over the last ...
What’s wrong with Zionism, Hugh Laurie?

What’s wrong with Zionism, Hugh Laurie?

The question arose within hours of a death that should have remained a matter of grief. On 16 February, Dana Eden, co-creator and producer of the Israeli espionage series Tehran, was found dead in her hotel room at the Gatsby Athens. She was 52. Greek police are investigating and are treating the death as a possible suicide. Eden had been in Greece ...

Evolve: Advance’s masterclass in rebuilding hope

Evolve: Advance’s masterclass in rebuilding hope
Much to the collective annoyance of left-wing media, Advance Australia hosted their excellent Evolve conference last Friday and Saturday. The event’s opening remarks made it clear that the political winds of global conservatism are blowing a gale everywhere except within Australia. Around the world, politics is changing. Donald Trump is in the White ...

No, Zelensky: World War Three hasn’t started

No, Zelensky: World War Three hasn’t started
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that World War Three has already started. Speaking to the BBC on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Russian invasion, it’s understandable why he would want to take this line, but he’s wrong. What is striking about Putin is the lack of a messianic ideology On an emotional level, Zelensky has seen ...

Watch: Martin Lewis confronts Kemi Badenoch

Watch: Martin Lewis confronts Kemi Badenoch
Oh dear. It seems that Martin Lewis, the self-styled ‘Money Saving Expert’, has come a bit of a cropper in his attempts to prove that he is the smartest one in the room. Kemi Badenoch was out on the airwaves this morning, promoting the Tories’ plan to cut the interest on student loans. But Lewis leapt at the chance to intervene, ambushing her on the ...

Does Andrew make the case for republicanism?

Does Andrew make the case for republicanism?
So: is the game up? Looking at the former Prince Andrew’s slumped posture, corpse-grey face and thousand-yard stare in the snatched photographs of him leaving police custody, you might be tempted to think so. He looked like Ebenezer Scrooge confronted by the Ghost of Christmas Future. The future certainly doesn’t hold anything very uplifting for this ...

El Mencho’s death plunges Mexico into chaos

El Mencho’s death plunges Mexico into chaos
Mayhem has erupted across Mexico after security forces eliminated Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the drug lord widely known as El Mencho, in a gun battle in the town of Tapalpa. El Mencho was the head of one of Mexico’s most violent and sadistic organisations, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). Henchmen forced passengers out of their cars before ...

Can Reform really make Britain Christian again?

Can Reform really make Britain Christian again?
Lent has barely begun, yet on the right of British politics the resurrection has already arrived. God, it seems, is back on the ballot. In the great schism of parties beginning with “re”, Rupert Lowe has launched his bid to “Restore Britain”, positioning himself as the more muscular alternative to Nigel Farage’s Reform. Restore promises to go further ...

How Britain learnt to turn a blind eye to shariah

How Britain learnt to turn a blind eye to shariah
The more excitable and less well-educated elements of the liberal left are forever apt to observe that politics today resemble those of the 1930s, being prone to denounce a development or policy they disdain as being ‘just like Nazi Germany’. To be fair, they have a point. It’s not just the street brawls we’ve seen in Manchester and Lyon over the last ...

What’s wrong with Zionism, Hugh Laurie?

What’s wrong with Zionism, Hugh Laurie?
The question arose within hours of a death that should have remained a matter of grief. On 16 February, Dana Eden, co-creator and producer of the Israeli espionage series Tehran, was found dead in her hotel room at the Gatsby Athens. She was 52. Greek police are investigating and are treating the death as a possible suicide. Eden had been in Greece ...