The truth about the ‘ban’ on sex education

17 May 2024 3:00 am

Increasingly, it feels like the Tories want to distract from their looming defeat by doing everything they can to keep…

Scottish Greens expel members who believe in ‘biological sex’

17 May 2024 2:49 am

If you thought the Scottish Greens couldn’t get any battier, then strap in. Patrick Harvie’s barmy army has ramped up…

Who will destroy our freedoms?

17 May 2024 2:30 am

The World Health Organisation (WHO), the health agency of the United Nations, is drafting a number of new documents which aim to radically change…

We and the ABS will not be fooled again!

17 May 2024 2:00 am

The Albanese government is using taxpayers’ money and accounting tricks to cover up the inflationary pressures its own policies are exacerbating, particularly…

Of course it isn’t racist to tell a Japanese colleague you like sushi

17 May 2024 1:57 am

Is it racist to tell a Japanese colleague that you like sushi? No, says an employment-tribunal judge, in another welcome…

May mocks her successors’ books

17 May 2024 1:05 am

To the Commons, where Theresa May was the guest of honour for today’s parliamentary press gallery lunch. The former premier…

Should you buy a folding phone?

17 May 2024 12:47 am

Just five short years ago, Samsung released the first mainstream folding phone with their debut Galaxy Fold. It had some…

Sunak: I will stay in parliament even if we lose

17 May 2024 12:06 am

In a year of tough interviews, perhaps the most unusual one the Prime Minister has encountered thus far was today’s…

The troubling reaction to the shooting of Robert Fico

16 May 2024 10:47 pm

Just imagine if, following the killing of Jo Cox, some right-wing media outlet had said: ‘Well, she was a divisive…

Why does the National Trust hate itself so much?

16 May 2024 10:28 pm

In its latest bout of self-hatred, the National Trust has declared that ‘people from the global majority are widely under-represented…

Russia and China have never been equal partners

16 May 2024 10:10 pm

Barely a week after inaugurating himself as president once again, Vladimir Putin has gone to China – his first foreign…

The criminal justice system is on the brink of collapse

16 May 2024 9:50 pm

When a vast, complex system fails it first does so slowly, and then all at once. I fear that the…

Sixteen times Starmer relaunched his leadership

16 May 2024 9:43 pm

He’s back and this time he’s got a pledge card. Sir Keir is out this morning in Essex, outlining the…

Starmer channels his inner Blair as he unveils six election pledges

16 May 2024 9:30 pm

It’s 1997 in Essex today as Keir Starmer unveils six election pledges. In a nod to Tony Blair’s election pledge…

Listen: Keegan in excruciating muddle over ‘woman’ definition

16 May 2024 9:09 pm

Who’s been educating the Education Secretary? If ‘what is a woman?’ was an exam question, Mr S is certain Gillian…

Putin can’t hide how dependent he is on Beijing

16 May 2024 9:04 pm

Vladimir Putin has arrived in China for a two-day state visit, the first since the start of his fifth term…

Slovakia is united after the assassination attempt on Fico. It won’t last

16 May 2024 8:19 pm

Somewhat unfairly, Slovakia is often overlooked and ignored as a quiet and peaceful backwater in the often turbulent turmoil of…

Trump vs Biden could be the worst presidential debate in history

16 May 2024 7:45 pm

Ding ding ding! Trump vs Biden, the debate rematch, is on – so brace yourselves for the worst presidential tussle…

Will this stop players mobbing the referee?

16 May 2024 6:42 pm

The European football governing body Uefa has informed competing nations at this summer’s Euros that only team captains will be…

France is spiralling out of control

16 May 2024 4:53 pm

The cold-blooded execution of two prison guards at a Normandy motorway toll on Tuesday has shocked France. It is for…

The balance of probabilities

16 May 2024 3:57 am

Having emerged from the courtroom where Justice Michael Lee delivered his decision on the Lehrmann v Network Ten Pty Limited…

The Dark Ages in Australia were not so dark

16 May 2024 3:22 am

Francesco di Petracco, better known as ‘Petrarch’, is rightly recognised as an artistic genius, the greatest scholar of his age,…

The real reason for African poverty, with Magatte Wade

16 May 2024 3:00 am

Why is Africa poor? There’s a series of trendy answers to that question, that are almost taken as read amongst…

Same values, different beliefs?

16 May 2024 2:52 am

Values and beliefs are not the same. People can support each other’s values while holding different beliefs. But if we…

Lisbon and the Algarve: the spots I find hard to share

16 May 2024 2:39 am

World-class golf, more than 300 days of sunshine a year, flavorsome local seafood, excellent wines and more than 1,000 miles…