Kamala’s ABC connection
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro is on the shortlist to be Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate and with his newfound…
Acts of aggression
Progressivism is the new opiate of the masses
24-hour courts are risky, but right
Yesterday evening, the government instituted a little-known procedure called the Additional Courts Protocol. Set up following the 2011 London riots,…
Bleeding Australia dry
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
And why Western leaders supported Lula in Brazil
Police clashes and violence spread across Britain
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?
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
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
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
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
The Tories are about to choose a leader once more, and this time cannot allow themselves any self-indulgence. In 2022,…