First illegal migrant paid to go to Rwanda
In what seems like a watershed moment for the government’s Rwanda plan, the first migrant has been sent to the…
What should we make of Russell Brand’s baptism?
Could Russell Brand, who has just been baptised, become a significant Christian figure? I suppose he could become a sort…
Sadiq Khan has failed London’s women
More than four million women and girls live in London. They represent over half (51 per cent) of the capital’s…
Does Scottish Labour really want an election?
Given the SNP’s abject disarray, it is no surprise to see Scottish Labour demanding a snap Holyrood election. After all,…
Banana skins from the UCLA encampment
Cockburn wasn’t sure how he would occupy his time after the season finale of The Bachelor aired last month. As it turns…
Was Lehrmann’s presumption of innocence left in the ‘lions’ den’?
It was over dinner that a former senior Australian Federal Police investigator brought it up. A question no one appears…
Tory MPs – not members – should elect the party’s next leader
Since first becoming Chairman of the 1922 Committee in 2010, Graham Brady has overseen the election of three Conservative leaders…
The modern obsession with ‘green’ investment
The recently deceased Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway was arguably the most successful investor ever. He was noted for his…
‘E-safety’: the new thought police
Give an inch and they’ll take a mile – it is fair to say Australians are waking up to the…
When will the Telegraph sale be concluded?
To the Commons, where Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer this afternoon gave a ministerial statement on the future of the Telegraph Media…
Week in 60 Minutes S2E12: Are you getting ripped off at the supermarket? Rebecca Weisser, Stuart Ballantyne & Nick Hossack
The only thing worse than living through a cost of living crisis is being ripped off. Australians are looking at…
Is there a plot afoot to get rid of Albo?
Speculation, of course, but Albanese is either uncommonly talented in the art of self-destruction, or Labor is getting ready to…
The reassuring return of King Charles
Illness, like death, is society’s greatest leveller, and so the news that the King had been affected by cancer led…
Brexit has not made food unaffordable
Imagine that for the past 30 years all food entering Britain from EU countries had been subject to stringent sanitary…
Why Sunak is not for turning in his fight with junior doctors
Those waiting for the local election results before they look for evidence of Rishi Sunak’s fightback are running late: the…
Is Javier Milei’s medicine working?
Javier Milei was taking too many risks. Argentina’s president didn’t have enough political support. And his radical version of free…
Ireland is furious about Britain’s immigration mess
‘We will not be used as a loophole in another country’s immigration challenges.’ Those were the angry words of Irish…
The trouble with the elite American campus
One of the key critiques of DEI — the identity-based preference system better known as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion —…
Whoever wins the SNP leadership race, the party loses
None of the candidates for the SNP leadership has declared yet, but it is shaping up to be a classic…
Why are police officers slow to respond to domestic abuse call-outs?
Popping out to buy milk the other night, I saw how women die. My nearest local shop in south-west London, the…
I was raised by dog breeders. Has the ASPCA got them all wrong?
I had the pleasure — my therapist says the misfortune — of growing up in a doggy dynasty. My grandpa…
Why Emmanuel Macron wants to give nukes to the EU
Emmanuel Macron is thinking and saying the unthinkable for a French President of the Republic. This weekend he suggested that…
The NHS has finally seen sense on biological sex
Sex is a biological fact, the NHS declared this morning. Seriously, if the health service was ever in any doubt…
Why Britain’s Rwanda Bill has rattled Emmanuel Macron
Britain’s Rwanda Bill has exposed the deep divisions in France between how the people and the political elite regard mass…
Watch: Deputy FM accidentally announces leadership bid
It’s a gaffe a day with the SNP. Even with hapless Humza stepping down, the Nats are still slipping up.…
