The madness of the Port Talbot closures
Hurrah! The UK is just about to reduce its carbon emissions by a further 1.5 per cent. As for Wales,…
Prince Harry faces £750k libel bill
It seems the renegade royal has run away again. All of Fleet Street was eagerly anticipating the mother of all…
Does Sunak have a relatability problem?
Rishi Sunak has been caught on camera apparently walking away from a woman who has just started telling him about…
Alarm bells ringing on the waterfront (again)
In the throes of a four-month waterfront dispute featuring the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) and Emirati global logistics…
Iran is at the centre of Middle East crisis
2024 commences with the worrying spectre of Iran-backed groups including Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq and…
Agreeing to power-sharing now could ruin the DUP
Once upon a time, a young unionist politician marched out of a talks process. Recalling the incident later, he said: ‘I…
The curious case of Nicola Sturgeon’s missing WhatsApps
The saga of the Scottish Government’s WhatsApps continues to rumble on. The SNP regime has never been slow in condemning…
How Catalan separatists are taking control of immigration
In Spain’s general election last July, the right-wing Partido Popular and the even more right-wing Vox won 170 seats, just…
Jeremy Hunt has difficult decisions ahead of him on tax cuts
The Tory party’s plan to further cut taxes in the Spring Budget is not exactly a secret. Still, Jeremy Hunt’s…
Who is persecuting Ukraine’s journalists?
Investigative journalism has often been deadly for the careers of corrupt politicians in Ukraine, with stories leading to resignations and…
Is Emmanuel Macron secretly hoping for a Trump victory?
The great and the good of this world met in Davos this week to tell each other how wonderful they…
Can Europe match Russia’s remarkable rise in weapons production?
‘You need to understand that if Europe is under attack we will never come to help you and to support…
Missiles alone won’t solve the problem of the Houthis
Eventually then, enough was enough. After months of Houthi drone and missile attacks on Israel and vessels in the Red…
Batsh*t crazy mice
We’re hearing that China is back in the lab, with scientists experimenting on a Covid strain (GX_P2V) that has returned a…
Javier Milei shocks Davos
Each year the World Economic Forum’s conference in Davos, Switzerland, draws the attention of conspiracy theorists. In truth, nothing is…
How Trump captured his party
Vintage news outlets, with lots of time to kill and space to fill, are desperately trying to say the Republican…
The course of the American empire
In the 1830s, the English-born American artist Thomas Cole painted an ambitious sequence of five large rectangular canvases delineating “The…
A nation divided
As the nation ushers in a new year following the decisive defeat of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament at the…
Javier Milei dismantles the Davos groupthink
Each year the World Economic Forum’s conference in Davos, Switzerland draws the attention of conspiracy theorists. In truth, nothing is…
Starmer flip-flops on his CPS record
He’s at it again. Like those unscrupulous bosses he professes to despise, Sir Keir Starmer enjoys taking the credit when…
Sergei Lavrov: War has had a ‘positive impact on life in Russia’
Just when you thought Putin’s regime couldn’t sink any lower, it somehow manages to. Like something out of George Orwell’s 1984,…
Now even Humza distances himself from the SNP
You know your brand is struggling when even the boss wants to ditch it. For it seems that hapless Humza…
Are the Saudis really ruining boxing?
There’s a new mantra in championship boxing. Try speaking to anyone from that world – a big-time promoter, trainer or…
Dare not speak its name
According to recent polling around the consequential caucuses just held, some 80 per cent of Iowa Republicans believe Joe Biden’s…
Sunak goes on the offensive over Rwanda
Who is to blame if no flights with asylum seekers leave the UK for Rwanda ahead of the election? In…
