One of the bizarre and telling peculiarities of the surging protests in Iran has been that the best coverage of the momentous bravery of the ordinary Iranians fighting Islamic dictatorship has been by a comedian Omid Djalili - and not our famous BBC.

Even if the regime in #Iran does not fall over the next days, questions must be asked in Parliament about the deliberate, apparently ideological refusal of BBC News (World) to cover 12 days of huge, intensifying protests & deadly repression. The public shouldn’t have to rely on Omid Djalili !

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EXCLUSIVE: Chagos First Minister's letter to the British people. "Please contact members of the House of Lords. Ask them to stop this deal. Ask them to defend British territory, security, taxpayers, and a unique natural environment that Britain has safeguarded for generations."

Iran’s uprising and the moral bewilderment of Western youth spectator.com/article/irans-…

Every politician should be required to write a 10-page paper on unintended consequences of government policy before they can take office.

This is excellent. The hypocrisy of the luvvies over Iran is sickening telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/1…

Well this would get awkward

Nadhim Zahawi and now Robert Jenrick relinquish the Tory whip in the same week. At this rate, the Conservative Party might even become electable again.

My interview with The Times and The Sunday Times about the For Women Scotland Supreme Court judgment, the EHRC Code of Practice and what the government needs to do to clear up the mess thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Retired With Honour After Evidence Was Fabricated The moment Craig Guildford was allowed to "retire", the truth became unavoidable. This was not accountability. It was an escape. An independent inspectorate found that West Midlands Police fabricated exaggerated and untrue

Fascinating account of the African republic of Benin (formerly Dahomey) reckoning with its slave-exporting past by offering citizenship to descendants of enslaved Africans. reuters.com/world/africa/b…

Benin's president Patrice Talon, the man behind this initiative to atone for the slave-selling past, is himself a descendent of Dahomey slave merchants. washingtonpost.com/world/africa/a…

I wrote in 2022 for The Atlantic about the uproar triggered at the American Historical Association when its then president referenced the Dahomey slave-selling history that Benin's president seeks now to memorialize. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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