We left billions on the table in the deal in deterred investment, with the UK being the beneficiary of only a fraction of the annual planned AI infrastructure spending by US hyperscalers.

The autobiography is unusual among Jewish memoirs because it is by a woman who not only received a high level of secular education, but she also converted to Roman Catholicism and then became a fully…

One of the most notable trends I witnessed was young men anxiously asking me if there was any way to reclaim their money from some crypto scam.

Lee Kwan Yew initiated a policy of forced movement, moving people into new accommodation according to the exact ethnic-to-religious ratios as the overall population.

In August 2022, the Solomon Islands refused Royal Navy and US Navy ships access.

If ADC wins next year — with its disparate mix of parties, large and small — it will take the wisdom of Solomon to build a cabinet.

The EU relies on China for 97% of its magnesium, 71% of its gallium and China supplies 85% of the bloc’s permanent magnets.

If your campaign publishes a strong explainer, briefing or evidence-led response, but it sits three pages deep in search results, many people will never see it.

Men who had spent careers attacking one another subordinated everything to the defeat of the enemy without.

The inevitable consequence is further dependence on the US for at least twenty years, and likely much longer.

The Law Commission correctly argued that thresholds need to be reduced and that this would make commonhold into a viable tenure.

The protagonists most definitely outrank the architects of tragedy [yet] are powerless to prevent their families being ripped apart.

Moscow has long relied on a sense of historical continuity and collective struggle.

Positioning on economic policy is clear. Reform have instead shifted around on issues like benefit caps and nationalisation.

’Mansfield Park’ is a novel about race and ‘Howards End’ is a novel about class consciousness…

Blue jeans, Joy Division, the Cure, and the word ‘Liverpool’ on a café wall.

The late Pope, who is in a wheelchair, moves slowly down a line of female prisoners, washing and drying their feet, kissing them and smiling.

There will always be a group ready to brand a FLOTUS a malingerer, a Svengali, or a Marie-Antoinette.

Newsom is a “six-foot- three chad” who “mogs.”…

Lawrence of Arabia understood something that the German High Command failed to: the difference between community and category.

It would be remiss to suggest that the decline began under the auspices of the current destructive government: the rot started to creep in some time ago.

Japan has nearly doubled its foreign aid budget between 2018 and 2023, from $8.6 billion to $19.3 billion.

One-in-two parents desire an additional child for each child they have.

They have chosen the narrow interests of teaching unions and their ideological opposition to the rigours of competition.

Macmillan’s concept of “co-ordination” … is already underway across the world.

An evidence-driven biodiversity-first planning system would prioritise building on the green belt.

The London Academy of Excellence has been successful in part because of the Gove reforms.

The white working class is at the bottom of the pile in marriage rates, and so too in school.

I became the victim of AI-enabled harassment generated using Grok.

If we did hand over authority, would we ever be able to take it back? ‘Mercy’ does not provide answers, but it does frame the question effectively.

Successive governments have treated university attendance as an end in itself rather than as a means of matching skills to economic need.

This is not enough to address Scotland’s widening fiscal deficit: 12% of GDP, more than double the UK’s 5%.

The supply of antivenom lasted less than a year. At this point, federal regulations became unfortunately involved.

Liberals and conservatives have been fighting each other for a long time over the right to bear the mantle of Adam Smith and Friedrich von Hayek. That, alas, has kept them from looking over their…

In the last 40 years, the spread of capitalism to Asian ‘tiger’ economies and then India and China has meant that the number of people living in poverty has dropped dramatically worldwide.

The BBC is grappling with accusations that it spread “fake news” – in the words of Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch – with its editing of a speech by Donald Trump in a recent Panorama…

Discussions on whether England and Wales should legalise assisted suicide are ongoing, with the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill currently battling through the House of Lords.

The most shocking thing about visiting Mumbai is not the poverty. It is the productivity. Dharavi, the slum made famous by Slumdog Millionaire, is one of the most economically intense places on Earth.

Britain is in the grip of a nature-and-housing crisis. This is most acute in our cities, where limited space is leading to skyrocketing rent and house prices. When buildings are finally constructed…

To win the battle of ideas and win elections, conservatives have to start articulating their philosophical worldview. Politics operates on at least two different yet interrelated levels.

The Conservatives have a formidable challenge regaining the trust of the electorate after the record of their 14 years in office. A focus on the leadership is a distraction from the underlying…

If there’s one thing in politics worth remembering, it is not to get caught in an argument that unites your opponents and splits your friends. The announcement on the European Convention on Human…

For a party that once prided itself on knowing every doorstep in Britain, the Conservatives have somehow lost the knack of knocking on them. Bizarrely, it was Moldova that reminded the centre-right…

The train stank of weed, and several people were playing music out loud on their phones. There were too many for me to stomp up and down the carriage asking the offenders in my usual diplomatic way to...