World
Brace yourselves for a painful year ahead
Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the economy ground to a halt in January, with…
Can Israel help the people of Iran rise up?
The new supreme leader of Iran has still not been seen in public. Instead, the country’s state television broadcast what…
Is Keir Starmer really, truly sorry about Peter Mandelson?
Sir Keir Starmer wants everyone to know how sorry, really sorry, he is for giving Lord Mandelson the job of…
Was Starmer ever serious about shrinking the British state?
A year ago today, the Prime Minister gave a speech on the ‘fundamental reform of the British state’. ‘We don’t…
War on Iran was not ‘unprovoked’
I’ve been thinking a lot about the phrase ‘unprovoked war’. It’s been rolling off leftist tongues since the explosion of…
Revealed: Lib Dems’ plan for ‘Operation Epsom Fury’
Is any party having a ‘good war’ on Iran? After Donald Trump’s first strikes, I suggested that the Prime Minister…
The right’s Israel fracture
As the joint American-Israeli military campaign in Iran continues, President Trump’s coalition is starting to exhibit some cracks. The war…
‘Blasphemous’ drawings and the myth of tolerance
It’s often assumed and frequently stated that the biggest threat to British society these days comes from cultures which are…
The strange cult of Shabana Mahmood
Is Shabana Mahmood ‘one of the best Conservative Home Secretaries we have ever had’? Tory MP Edward Leigh thinks so.…
Reform’s retreat isn’t what I want
An addendum to my piece in the mag this week, partly for clarification and partly to reinforce the point, for…
The glaring problem with the RAF’s new helicopters
It was good news, albeit good news of the your-house-hasn’t-burned-down variety. Last week, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced that…
Petrol is still (relatively) very cheap
On Tuesday, Reform UK held a press conference in a petrol forecourt near the spa town of Buxton. The party…
The EU’s honours list is a sham
The European Union now has its very own honours list, grandly named the European Order of Merit – with gongs…
Suicide drones hit Tehran as instability mounts inside Iran
Overnight on Wednesday, around 100 Basij soldiers were killed across Tehran by dozens to hundreds of suicide drones in a…
The Iran war has exposed the world’s maritime chokepoint
The war with Iran is exposing a vulnerability at the heart of the global gas market: the extraordinary concentration of…
How the Islamic Republic tried – and failed – to destroy Iranian culture
The Islamic Republic in Iran is not only at war with the United States and Israel. For years, the country’s…
Will Iran scupper King Charles’s US state visit?
In April, King Charles is scheduled to visit the United States to mark 250 years since America achieved its independence.…
Keir Starmer has no interest in answering Kemi Badenoch’s questions
In the last 48 hours the government of Sir Keir Starmer has ended a link between the House of Lords…
Can Trump defeat Senate Republicans over the SAVE Act?
I know that the world is focused on Iran but here’s what President Trump wrote on Truth Social Sunday about…
Replacing Churchill with wildlife on our banknotes is a mistake
The Bank of England has announced that pictures of wildlife will replace famous faces on our banknotes. A cute kitten,…
Starmer and Badenoch were like squabbling kids at PMQs
Prime Minister’s Questions today saw a leader under repeated attack for a ‘screeching U-turn’ and their suitability to be Prime…
Why shouldn’t Nigel Farage invest in crypto?
The nation is – apparently – in shock. After giving endless speeches about how much he loves cryptocurrencies, Reform UK…
Slavery reparations will be the next Chagos betrayal
Well, who would have guessed? Emboldened by Mauritius’s success in persuading Keir Starmer to surrender the Chagos Islands – which…
Trail hunting battle looms for rural lobby
Tally ho! That sound you can hear is Keir Starmer’s barmy army charging into the fray once more. Having waged…
The Al-Quds march should have been banned years ago
The government has approved a request from the Metropolitan Police to ban the annual Al-Quds day march in London, which was…
