Elections have a wonderful way of focusing a politician’s mind. So it is with Rishi Sunak and the Tories, who are hoping their Rwanda Bill will be their salvation come the general election.

A friend wrote me to ask, “Why is this mess happening on campus?” Here is my response. Let me offer some thoughts, as a long-time professor, in hopes they spur your own. Let’s begin with ...

In the course of human affairs and communications, words have specific meanings, and nowhere is this more important than in ...

Happy local elections day, one and all. As voters head to the polls across the country, the talk in Westminster is how bad ...

Could Rishi Sunak be about to win the next general election? That suggestion, made at Prime Minister’s Questions today by one ...

A big part of the social contract for a modern society is an agreement that citizens will grant the state a monopoly on the ...

The good news for the Conservatives is that immigration is down. It looks as if the net migration figures will not be ...

The other day a nice Albanian builder came round. He was in an upbeat mood because his son had been admitted to Cardinal ...

As if the media’s coverage of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner this weekend wasn’t painful enough, now we have to ...

Given the universal forecasts of the Tories taking a proper pasting in yesterday’s elections, it is quite something for Rishi Sunak’s party to have done worse than expected. But a truly dismal result ...

With millions of voters heading to the polls today, how many will forget to bring along suitable photo ID? One of the more noteworthy, it seems, is, er, Boris Johnson who was reportedly turned away ...

Joe Biden just threw a particularly nasty insult the way of Japan, a close ally of the United States, at a campaign event. The president accused the Japanese, along with China, Russia, and India, of ...