World
Is Suella Braverman wrong about pro-Palestine ‘hate marches’?
Supporting the Palestinians is a reasonable thing to do. Flying their flag is not an act of hatred. Expressing sympathy…
Will Elon Musk end up humiliating Rishi Sunak?
Bill Gates was probably otherwise engaged. Mark Zuckerberg was busy in the metaverse. And Jeff Bezos was tied up on…
Israel, Palestine and the troubling silence of Britain’s anti-racists
There’s no room for racism in Britain, we’re told. EDI (equality, diversion and inclusion) initiatives and anti-racism strategies are everywhere.…
The horror of Halloween
Temperate weather, perfect apples, and leaves turning yellow, red, and purple – ‘Fall’ ought to be the most charming time…
The Witchery weaves Halloween magic in Edinburgh
Halloween traditions might hail from All Hallows’ Eve, the Christian celebration preceding All Saints’ Day, but that has roots in…
What’s the point of the Covid inquiry?
Was anything in Martin Reynolds’s evidence to the Covid inquiry surprising today? We already knew that Boris Johnson had a…
Is Argentina doomed?
Argentina is a third world country with first world taste. It is the land of Malbec, Borges and polo, but…
Afghanistan is on the brink of another catastrophe
When a massive earthquake struck western Afghanistan on 7 October, thousands of mud houses collapsed, crushing and killing the people…
How Rishi Sunak can finally win over ‘generation rent’
‘We’ve had 30 years of vested interests standing in the way of change,’ Rishi Sunak declared in his conference speech…
Jews feel abandoned by the British left
Like 9/11, the massacre in southern Israel changed everything. From the great movements of Middle Eastern geopolitics and international alliances…
Dagestan’s anti-Semitic mob and the truth about Palestinian ‘solidarity’
So now we know what a ‘globalised intifada’ might look like. That’s what people chanted for on the streets of…
Why the Kremlin will fear Dagestan’s anti-Semitic mob
As the war in Gaza continues to have global repercussions, a mob in the southern Russian city of Makhachkala stormed…
Will Israel’s military strategy work against Hamas?
Israeli soldiers are the masters of street fighting. It is unlikely that there has not been a single month in…
Why are feminists like me being labelled ‘far right’?
In what would no doubt come as a shock to great feminists like Mary Wollstonecraft, Sylvia Pankhurst and Simone de…
What the Babylon scandal tells us about the British government
One of the consistent themes of Dominic Cummings’s kamikaze mission to reform the machinery of the British state was that…
How Giorgia Meloni stabilised Italy
Giorgia Meloni has just marked her first year as Italy’s prime minister. When elected, she was described as a far-right…
Evacuate Gaza, but don’t call for a ceasefire
In every round of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in the last 20 years, I have always wanted an immediate…
How long will Jeremy Hunt remain as chancellor?
As Jeremy Hunt prepares for next month’s autumn statement, the question being asked among Tory MPs isn’t so much what…
Can Starmer take the heat off the Labour ceasefire row?
Keir Starmer is under increasing pressure from Labour frontbenchers to change tack and back calls for a ceasefire in the…
Why the far left supports Hamas
It’s not often that Brits can say that the US is behind the UK. But in understanding the dynamic between the…
Ukraine’s sabotage tricks are causing concern in Washington
There has never been any doubt that Ukraine was the focus of an intelligence war as much as a physical…
Sunak has united conservatives but not how he hoped
Why are the Conservatives doing quite so badly? Smashed in two by-elections, dropping further in the polls, last days of…
Turkey has plenty to celebrate on its centenary
It’s difficult to imagine the Middle East having reason to celebrate. It happens, however, that today is the centenary of…
Activist curators are spoiling Britain’s museums
History, we’re told, is written by the victors. But nowadays, it seems it’s museum curators who really have the final…
In praise of Mike Pence
Mike Pence was never likely to win the Republican nomination for president, and today he recognized the inevitable. He withdrew…
