My ‘debate’ with Extinction Rebellion confirmed all my worst fears about this eco doom cult
Rarely have I looked forward to a debate with less relish than the one I appeared in on Thursday night at the Cambridge Union. The motion was…
Canada used to be the friendliest place in the world. Where did it all go wrong?
The news from Canada seems to grow more startling by the day. The government invoking emergency powers to crack down on mass protests against Covid restrictions. Police…
Compulsory water meters are difficult to justify
It is a source of amazement to some people that a country known for its relatively wet climate can occasionally run short of water. But utility companies…
We’re not fighting a new Cold War but old-fashioned Russian imperialism
At one point in the press briefing and counter-briefing that seems to constitute diplomatic activity over Ukraine, the Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg suggested that there might…
Monarchies have been mopping up after errant royals for generations
It was a moment of shame: the Duke of York having to be bailed out of trouble over sexual assault allegations. Not to be outdone, Prince Charles’s…
Vladimir Putin is even more dangerous than the deluded West is able to admit
With Ukraine on the edge of invasion, a question hangs over the West. Who is the real Vladimir Putin? Is he the street fighter who grew up…
Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine gamble is beginning to backfire
Wednesday came and went with the perilous tension of a disaster film. The mooted date of a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine did not see thousands of…
Nicola Sturgeon’s Scotland is becoming an elective dictatorship
Sarah Smith is one of Scotland’s and Britain’s best-known journalists and, as such, is regarded by BBC executives as one of their brightest stars. The 53 year-old…
The West has forgotten why it matters that our enemy Putin doesn’t win
Our culture disapproves of sustained hatred. Partly because of our Christian inheritance and partly because we still see ourselves as top dogs, we in the West like…
How to transform store-cupboard ingredients into something special
We live in an age where everything is available, and instantly. Part of me hates this. I foresee a future in which half the world will be…
Marcus Wareing: ‘People ask if I’ve mellowed…but put a chef’s jacket on me and I am totally different’
We’re back in the family kitchen, and I wonder if Wareing regrets missing so many dinners with his kids when they were growing up. ‘Are you serious?…
Yes, women of all body types can wear a pencil skirt – and here’s how
Black tweed pencil skirt, £179, LK Bennett Whether you have an hourglass figure, or a straight up/straight done column shape, or are more of an ‘inverted triangle’…
Faux fur doesn’t need to be tacky – here’s how to make it work for you
After the past couple of years, we are all finding joy where we can. To navigate Covid Winter II, I’ve been dressing in a more upbeat way….
‘Kidnapped’ Dubai princess visits UN in Paris to ‘express her wish for privacy’
Princess Latifa’s representatives released a statement saying the meeting was held “to assert her right to a private life, following persistent media speculation about her”. The statement…
US Navy officers on trial over accusations of conspiring to trade secrets for sex parties
The revelation has raised fears about whether US military secrets could have fallen into the wrong hands. “I’m sure you are familiar with how information like that…
Boris Johnson’s speech to the Munich Security Conference in full
Ambassador Ischinger, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s great to be here once again, after an absence of I think five years, at this very important security…
Russians accuse Ukrainians of genocide as they pave way for potential invasion
On Wednesday, Russia’s Investigative Committee, which typically deals with high-profile crimes, suddenly announced that it had opened a probe into alleged evidence of mass graves of “hundreds”…
China ramps up illegal fishing in lawless high seas off South America
“Every year it gets worse,” complains Lima fisherman Ricardo Ayaucan as he races to haul the drift net aboard his tiny boat bobbing in the Pacific swell…
My memoirs were sullied to suit Twitter’s woke agenda
Perhaps this is a reflection of the sensitivity read’s origins in children’s and young adult fiction. There are good reasons for regulating children’s reading: it is foundational…
‘I try to see it as a superpower’: pop star Lola Young on being schizoaffective
Nick Shymansky promised himself he would never manage another artist after Amy Winehouse. Having parted ways with the star in 2006 after spending a year battling to…
Comedian Dylan Moran: ‘The panel show circuit is a rigged game’
Words flow from him constantly as though he is reaching for golden coins out of the air, and scattering them across the table, certain they will always…
What’s on TV tonight: Dunkirk: Mission Impossible, Stevie Wonder Night, and more
Saturday 19 February Dunkirk: Mission ImpossibleChannel 5, 9.30pmThis three-part documentary dives deeply into the stuff-of-legend rescue of Allied troops from the French coast in spring 1940, deemed…
Museum grapples with legacy of British Empire by decolonising… a stuffed echidna
A stuffed Australian mammal has been swept into a museum project to tackle the legacy of the British Empire because colonial explorers made it “look comical”. …
How Trafalgar Square pigeons helped Diane Keaton’s tough role take off
Now, at the age of 76, her recollections and photographs of the pigeons appear in a forthcoming book called Saved: My Picture World, a “scrapbook of her…
Wolf Alice, Hammersmith Apollo, review: Britain’s biggest rock band raise a storm to rival Eunice
Wolf Alice have many shades. The woozy indie of Bros prompted a hair-raising singalong while the gentle No Hard Feelings — think acoustic Stevie Nicks — saw…