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In October 2012, a documentary exposed how veteran British media personality Jimmy Savile sexually abused vulnerable, underage girls throughout his lifetime. This led to an eruption of reports of abuse,…

Keir Starmer and his DWP Secretary Liz Kendall are continuing their harrying of the sick and vulnerable by announcing that they will impose interviews with ‘work coaches’ on patients in…

In politics, there are two sorts of issues — those that matter and those that “cut through.” The latter are those which seize the popular imagination and shape perceptions of…

“It will all be over by Friday.” A casual remark about the General Election in the pub just now. I thought of The Great War, “It will all be over…

By Simon Kuper (2022). Having done no preparation walk into your school (Eton, of course) or university (Oxford, where else?) debating chamber and amuse an audience by opposing arguments that…

Thousands of supporters of Palestine gather in Platt Fields, Manchester ready to march into the city centre. As Israel has murdered over 500 Palestinian children in a week they say…

Biden ‘based comments’ on ‘claims from Netanyahu’s spokesman’ – and claims of Israeli women ‘raped and paraded’ are also unevidenced and denied even by IDF. The White House has retracted…

As a qualified schoolteacher I ought never to use words like ‘thick’. Unprofessional! But then I look at our politicians and so many words like that come to my lips.…

On 14 September 1989, seven members of the Aids campaign group ACT UP infiltrated the New York Stock Exchange and chained themselves to the VIP balcony in protest at the…

Today in 1935 Huey Long was killed. Quite how and by who it is not clear. He was a political opponent of FDR. Roosevelt’s New Deal usually has a good…