Extending my warmest wishes to everyone around the world celebrating Losar, the Tibetan New Year. On this first day of the Year of the Fire Horse, we celebrate the fortitude and resilience of the Tibetan community worldwide.
An ambitious British government, in alliance with Norway and Denmark, would build an archipelago here of free-trade, low-tax islands. Parts of the Dogger bank are only 15 metres down...
Sorry, no. The Chancellor of the Exchequer cannot sit there sobbing on the front bench. Unless perhaps they're discussing some atrocity that has cost many lives. She was temperamentally and intellectually completely inappropriate for an appointment at anywhere near that level.
Penultimate election observation. The racism directed at Rishi - our first serious ethnic minority candidate for PM - has been shameful. If he’d been on the Left there would have been widespread condemnation. This liberal perception Black/Asian Tories “ask for it” has to end.
Sometimes I stare at a gallon of ice cream and am astounded at the power of modern economies. Peasants in the 1300s starved when excess rain made wheat rot. We milked this, packaged it, put bar codes on it, refrigerated it, all in cheap packaging accessible nearly anywhere
The Rwanda deal is a stunning bit of statecraft by the Kagame government: a cash payment of 1.5 per cent of GDP and plenty of opportunities to extract more, plus you turn large numbers of Tory MPs and their media courtiers into your propaganda arm.
What the natural birth movement was involved in was a miss-selling scandal. Women were lead to expect a “birth experience”. Some fought for it, injuring themselves and their children, some were pushed into, and some were left with terrible guilt that they failed to achieve it.