This is only the start of the small boats crisis
Illegal immigrants continue to flow into England across the calm waters of the Channel. The latest data from the Home Office…
Japan just can’t find the staff
‘Kanko kankai’ (tourism pollution) is the latest buzz phrase here in Japan as the double-edged samurai sword of the visitor…
How Israel is clearing Hamas out of Rafah
Rafah, Gaza The heat, the sand, the soldiers. I’m in Rafah, a war zone unlike any other. As a former…
Putin takes revenge for the Kursk attack with glide bombs
In the sprawling and unlovely village of Billopilya, only five miles from Ukraine’s border with Russia, when death comes, it…
Biden bids a late-night farewell to the DNC
Chicago Monday night at the Democratic National Convention served as a protracted thank you and farewell to President Joe Biden…
We Brits never realised how good we had it under Boris Johnson
Was it worth losing him over a bit of cake?
The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon is a DC treasure
The political pyrotechnics in Washington this summer have so blinding as to blot out everything else happening in the national…
Kamala’s DNC team is saying the quiet part loud
From the moment Kamala Harris ascended to the status of 2024’s bringer of joy, the vice president has navigated a…
Will Russell Findlay be a ‘fighter’?
Russell Findlay has launched his bid to be the next Scottish Tory leader as the party descends into a civil…
Why is Lukashenko pushing for an end to the Ukraine war?
Could Belarus’s Aleksandr Lukashenko be the key to ending the Ukraine conflict? In a surprising intervention over the weekend, the…
Rome was exhausted by its greatness. Are we next?
Modern male thoughts gravitate to the Roman Empire
Women and wealth: inheriting $3.2 trillion in the next decade
What a turnabout. Half a century ago feminism was all about celebrating women’s success. There was huge excitement about women’s…
Boris’s memoir to drop during Tory leadership battle
Boris Johnson is back. The ex-prime minister is preparing to grace the nation with his musings as the launch date…
Making masculinity toxic
No man should feel ashamed of being male
Does breakdancer Raygun deserve all the hate?
How annoying must it be to win an Olympic title but be totally eclipsed by a competitor who failed to…
Netanyahu won’t hand Hamas an easy victory
The latest information seeping out from the negotiations for an end to the war in Gaza suggest that agreement between…
The toxicity of two-tier justice
One of the worst things about prison is the rules. Before I was sentenced I’d imagined jail as a rigid,…
Is there a solution to chronic absenteeism in schools?
I hated going to school so much as a kid that to this day, the sight of Back to School!…
Majority of Brits believe UK is heading in wrong direction
Sir Keir Starmer hasn’t exactly had the easiest start to his premiership – what with the recent riots, the country’s…
Prison cells are now being rationed
The announcement from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is couched in bureaucratic language, but there is no disguising it. ‘Process…
Trying to fly the first hydrogen balloon across the Atlantic
Presque Isle, Maine I was hoping to fly the first hydrogen balloon across the Atlantic and had been waiting for…
North Goa? Why you should go Elsewhere
There’s more to Morjim than offshore gambling and trance parties “North Goa or South Goa?” Ahead of a last-minute January…
Is Prince Andrew finally getting the boot from Windsor?
After a relatively quiet few months for Prince Andrew, there have been two recent developments that will no doubt make…
Why is the housing market so sluggish?
Is this the first sign of a bounce in the housing market? Property website Rightmove is reporting this morning that enquiries to…
Why don’t more millionaires make ‘patriotic gifts’?
The rich are happy to pay more, the broadest shoulders should bear the heaviest burden, and the climate emergency means…
