The American President's Iran gamble is poised on a knife edge, leaving even some of his usual admirers hedging and asking the unthinkable: is Trump about to nuke Iran to send it "back to the Stone Ages"?
When even Left-leaning mags are pointing out that Britain's energy crisis is getting worse, factories are closing and all the talk of Net Zero is just smoke and mirrors, you know it's bad.
Peter Hitchens has just chalked up another memorable appearance on Radio 4's Any Questions, says Sallust – tearing into Trump's Iran war and warning the West not to get sucked into yet another endless, destructive conflict.
Does Sun Tzu have sound advice in the art of war for the US, Israel and Iran? Sallust thinks so – though wonders if the master strategist considered the case of the enemy who welcomes martyrdom and never surrenders.
Why are people on the Left more distressed, anxious and filled with hate than those on the Right? Does Left-wingery make people angry or are angry people drawn to its bottomless indignation? Sallust investigates.
The police have failed to arrest a group of Left-wing shoplifting protesters who went on a stealing spree at the weekend, claiming the protesters actually paid for the items – though the group has flatly denied this.
Mass immigration and the ethnographic transformation of Britain is one factor in why Lionel Shriver fled to Portugal. But the final straw was HMRC's maddening new requirement to file tax returns five times a year.
A new government report has the Telegraph linking Covid and lockdowns to a surge in cold‑weather deaths, but Sallust isn't so sure. Rising energy bills, age and poverty seem far likelier culprits.
If you needed an example of the wasteful incompetence of the British state, look no further than Grantham, where an inability to build a simple road bridge has delayed the completion of a much-needed bypass for years.
Special needs spending has swallowed up half of all new money for schools since 2015, much of it in affluent areas. The problem, says Dr Max Pemberton, is middle class parents who can't accept their child is average.
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