World
Laurence Fox loses his libel case
Things go from bad to worse for Laurence Fox. In October, he was sacked from his GB News gig; in…
How will attacking the Mona Lisa save the planet?
Now the environmentalists are going after the Mona Lisa. Because of course they are. Just when you thought you couldn’t dislike…
Can we blame universities for cashing in on foreign students?
As an English teacher and sixth form tutor, I spend a lot of my time at the moment celebrating and…
Ireland is falling out of love with Sinn Fein
Is the Sinn Fein star starting to wane? Support for the party has hit its lowest level for four years…
Banning disposable e-cigarettes won’t stop kids vaping
The government thinks it has finally found a popular policy. Better still, it is a policy that it can implement,…
Time is running out to crack down on Iran
Three American soldiers on the Syria-Jordan border were killed by Iranian drones on Sunday. Since October, Iranian drones and missiles…
Estate agents shouldn’t need A-Levels to sell houses
Last week the shadow housing minister Matthew Pennycook tabled an opportunistic amendment to the government’s Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill.…
What explains the rise of Austria’s Freedom Party?
We don’t hear much about Austrian politics in Britain, which is not perhaps surprising since the landlocked Central European republic…
The Tory cigarette rebellion will likely go up in smoke
Back when Rishi Sunak was trying to pitch himself as the change candidate, he used his party conference speech in…
Trump is right – the world is less stable under Biden
Donald Trump said yesterday that we’re ‘on the brink of world war three’ after a suicide drone killed three US…
France’s furious farmers are marching on Paris
Paris will be under siege from 2 p.m. today as farmers intensify their protest action and attempt to cut off…
The shame of Britain’s ‘cash for courses’ universities
‘If you can take the lift, why go through the hardest route?’ a recruitment officer representing four Russell Group universities asked…
Both parties are fumbling the border debate
Given just how unpopular illegal immigration is, it is stunning to see both the likely nominees for president fumbling the…
Labour suspend MP over Holocaust Memorial Day comments
Oh dear. Every time Labour looks just about electable, up pops one of Keir Starmer’s MPs to help make that…
Kemi Badenoch: Tory plotters are ‘not my friends’
This week there have been reports of Tory ministers calling for Rishi Sunak to be replaced by Business Secretary Kemi…
John Fetterman’s noble support for Israel should be no surprise
Politicians are like bad boys: never fall in love with them, they’ll always hurt you in the end. But try…
Not everyone will miss Jurgen Klopp
So, farewell then Jurgen Klopp. What memories you will leave us. You were exuberant, passionate and unorthodox. You ran up…
Scotland’s juryless rape trials are based on a myth
Scotland currently faces a huge threat to the criminal justice system, in the form of juryless trials in rape cases.…
Tory MPs must share the blame with Sunak for the party’s troubles
Rishi Sunak is a drab technocrat mired in a failed political paradigm and with a tin ear for public opinion.…
A (partial) defence of the ‘Jewface’ Oscars
How could I be Jewish, my friend wondered out loud, when I didn’t have the… She paused as she mimed…
The ludicrous saga of India’s butter chicken war
Butter chicken, one of India’s best-known dishes and a favourite all over the world, is at the centre of an extraordinary…
Should foreign governments own UK newspapers?
The Emirati / RedBird IMI bid for the Daily Telegraph and The Spectator is opening up a wider conversation: how…
Biden’s media allies want to talk about Trump’s cognitive issues
As another Trump presidency starts to look more likely, the incessant conversations about age are bubbling back up. Roundtable discussions…
The Scottish government’s bizarre egg donor drive
A bright pink box fills my screen; soon it’s filled with blue cartoon sperm swimming towards a large, wobbling egg,…
Will we ever learn the lessons of the Holocaust?
As a child, I had to wash my hands before I was shown books of photographs depicting the ghettos and…
