How did the EU get Raisi’s death so wrong?
Most of the world will not mourn the president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash near…
A crackdown on foreign students isn’t the only reason universities will struggle
Reducing the number of overseas students able to come to Britain would be a needless attack on one of our…
Will Ken Clarke lose his peerage?
In the aftermath of the tainted blood scandal, there is no shortage of blame to go around – but some…
The trouble with Labour’s new towns plan
Since last October, when Keir Starmer declared that he was a ‘Yimby’ – a ‘yes in my back yard’ –…
Ebrahim Raisi’s death won’t change the course of history
The Middle East never fails to surprise. Sunday was no exception. Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and…
The sad truth about ‘saint’ Nicola Sturgeon
Nicola Sturgeon has finally come clean: ‘I was part of the problem,’ Scotland’s former first minister has admitted, referring to…
Why MPs love to hate the register of interests
The register of members’ interests for the House of Commons turns 50 today. Few MPs will be celebrating. Politicians have…
Plenty of dry eyes
The death of Iran’s President, Ebrahim Raisi, in a helicopter crash earlier this week has been met with plenty of…
Art’s gone Woke and no longer serves the common good
Perhaps the National Gallery of Australia should be renamed the National Fringe Gallery of Australia...
Sunak apologises during ‘day of shame’
Rishi Sunak’s Commons apology for the contaminated blood scandal was reasonably comprehensive. The statement opened with him saying he wanted…
Roz Adams’s tribunal win is a victory for liberty
As the edifice of gender identity ideology continues to crumble, along comes another example of an institution not only captured…
The infected blood scandal should make us think twice about revering the NHS
Blood is central to the myths British people tell themselves. One of the many consequences of the contaminated blood scandal…
Javier Milei won’t stop insulting Pedro Sanchez’s wife
The Spanish ambassador in Buenos Aires was recalled to Madrid yesterday after Argentina’s president Javier Milei described the wife of…
The ICC’s desire to arrest Netanyahu is far from impartial
In a dramatic announcement, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, declared today that he has…
Will the NHS change after the infected blood scandal?
The victims of the infected blood scandal have had to wait a very long time for there to be a…
Infected blood scandal was ‘no accident’, says report
The Infected Blood Inquiry has finally concluded after a five-year investigation. This lunchtime, the inquiry’s chair Sir Brian Langstaff said…
Bank of England’s £80k social media advertising spend
Once upon a time, the Bank of England was headed by a series of anonymous figures, whose identities remained largely…
Press freedom means protecting Julian Assange
James Cleverly won’t be able to move the Julian Assange file out of his inbox quite yet after all. The…
Raisi’s successor is unlikely to end Iran’s western shadow war
Even before Tehran had formally announced the death of President Ebrahim Raisi, conspiracy theories as to whether foul play was…
Salman Rushdie has exposed the great lie of a ‘Free Palestine’
This is what people must mean by the phrase ‘adults in the room’. After seven months of left-wing hotheads damning…
Could Corbyn be excluded from Labour for good?
Jeremy Corbyn is back in the spotlight again, causing yet more issues for his former party. The ex-Labour leader who…
EU sends its ‘sincere condolences’ to Iran
Oh dear. It seems that the Eurocrats of Brussels have blundered again. Following the news of the Iranian president’s death,…
Raisi’s death has ruined the Ayatollah’s succession plans
The helicopter crash that killed Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian will not fundamentally change the Islamic…
Why the death of Ebrahim Raisi both matters, and doesn’t
Not only does the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, in a helicopter crash in the fog and mountains in northern…
Labour’s gender change shake-up will end in tears
Anyone who thought the downfall of the Tory government might bring an end to the interminable debate over transgender rights…
