Kamala’s ABC connection

5 August 2024 1:11 pm

Former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are at odds over where and when the pair will debate,…

Starmer has to act tough over riots chaos

5 August 2024 4:12 am

Hundreds of angry protestors have attacked a hotel in South Yorkshire that has been used to house migrants and asylum…

Starmer blasts ‘far-right thuggery’ in wake of weekend riots

5 August 2024 3:33 am

After a weekend of violent disorder breaking out across the UK, the Prime Minister has this evening issued a statement from Downing…

Is Britain falling apart?

5 August 2024 2:48 am

My brand is pessimism so I’m wary of flogging it to death or becoming a parody of myself, but it’s…

Violent mob comes to Rotherham

5 August 2024 1:29 am

Protests are spreading across the UK. In Hull, protesters gathered outside a hotel housing asylum seekers and chanted ‘stop the…

There’s no excuse for this thuggery

5 August 2024 1:12 am

On Friday night, I watched the news with a sick heart. I watched masked men in Sunderland throw bricks and…

Israel’s coming war against Hezbollah might be necessary

5 August 2024 1:05 am

A full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah now seems closer than at any point since 7 October. Recent escalations, including…

Why America has more lawyers per capita than any other country

5 August 2024 12:46 am

Despite the sharp polarization of American politics, there is surprising agreement on what went wrong with capitalism. Whether the writer…

The Josh Shapiro sexual harassment cover-up scandal is actually quite bad

5 August 2024 12:28 am

Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro is on the shortlist to be Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate and with his newfound…

Acts of aggression

4 August 2024 7:53 pm

Progressivism is the new opiate of the masses

24-hour courts are risky, but right

4 August 2024 7:48 pm

Yesterday evening, the government instituted a little-known procedure called the Additional Courts Protocol. Set up following the 2011 London riots,…

Bleeding Australia dry

4 August 2024 7:18 pm

Nations achieve high standards of living by having a productive workforce and high levels of investment. Either they produce the…

The risk of ‘loaning’ the Elgin Marbles to Greece

4 August 2024 5:15 pm

Sir Keir Starmer’s government looks ready to smile upon the British Museum’s apparent desire to by-pass the legal prohibition of…

Japan is running out of rice

4 August 2024 5:00 pm

Japan is running out of rice. Stocks have fallen to their lowest levels in decades, prompting fears that emergency reserves…

Anjem Choudary is in jail for life – but is that enough?

4 August 2024 5:00 pm

Radical preacher Anjem Choudary – the Bexley-born godfather of homegrown Islamist terrorism in modern Britain – has finally been imprisoned for life.…

The Army is obsessed with safety

4 August 2024 4:00 pm

Last week, the new head of the Army, General Sir Roly Walker, warned that war may be much closer than…

Remembering the Roma Holocaust, 80 years later

4 August 2024 4:00 pm

On 16 May, 1944, as the first full trainloads of Hungarian Jews trundled towards Auschwitz, the SS decided to clear…

How Islamic State makes money

4 August 2024 4:00 pm

As if the French hadn’t enough on their plates, with turbulent elections and an underwhelming Euros performance, they’ve now had…

Why Putin supports Maduro in Venezuela

4 August 2024 3:29 pm

And why Western leaders supported Lula in Brazil

Police clashes and violence spread across Britain

4 August 2024 8:36 am

It has been a weekend of riots. They began on Friday night in Sunderland, and were repeated in Bristol, Stoke,…

What will Iran do next?

4 August 2024 12:30 am

Following the killings of Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr and Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh, Israel and the Middle East are poised and waiting…

Keir Starmer’s riot crisis

3 August 2024 6:40 pm

Just a month into the Labour ascendancy and its first major political crisis has already taken shape. It is not…

The ‘community cohesion’ concept explains confusing police tactics

3 August 2024 6:00 pm

Merseyside police were very keen to rule out the Southport attack as ‘terrorism-related’. This was despite subsequent remarks from the…

Unlike 1997, Labour has failed to finish off the Tories

3 August 2024 5:00 pm

Although Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government has been in office less than a month, similarities between this year’s election and…

Kemi Badenoch’s time has come

3 August 2024 4:30 pm

The Tories are about to choose a leader once more, and this time cannot allow themselves any self-indulgence. In 2022,…