World

Mike Pence drops out of the 2024 race

29 October 2023 7:29 am

Former vice president Mike Pence is suspending his bid to be the 2024 GOP nominee for president of the United…

Tribeca’s fine dining l’abeille strives for comfort while pushing boundaries

29 October 2023 4:17 am

When New York City restaurants closed their doors in March 2020, Rahul Saito and his husband Howard Chang took a…

Will Muslim voters really desert Labour?

28 October 2023 6:00 pm

It was always a question of when, not if, the Labour party would start tearing itself apart over the Israel-Hamas…

What Palestinian ‘solidarity’ marchers in the West don’t understand about Hamas

28 October 2023 5:30 pm

The atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October have been revealed in their terrible savagery. There are accounts of dead…

How Britain failed Israel

28 October 2023 5:15 pm

That the United Kingdom’s central institutions are rotten, crumbling, captured and perhaps beyond recovery is not news, but the Gaza…

Why are Cambridge University’s librarians judging ‘problematic’ books?

28 October 2023 5:00 pm

Librarians across Cambridge University are on the look out. Their target, among the ten million-odd volumes in the main library…

Why Israel is set to invade Gaza

28 October 2023 7:56 am

If reports this evening are correct, Israel is stepping up its ground operations in Gaza. The Jerusalem Post quotes IDF…

The mystery of the Covid Inquiry’s missing WhatsApps

28 October 2023 6:37 am

It will no doubt be referred to in Whitehall circles in future as the ‘Jason Leitch protocol’. Scotland’s clinical director…

Is the business world sane again?

28 October 2023 4:36 am

There are signs that woke capitalism is on the way out. Unilever, purveyor of the most right-on brand of the…

Boris Johnson joins GB News

28 October 2023 2:24 am

He’s back! Since the Privileges Committee probe earlier this year, Boris Johnson has been unusually quiet by his colourful standards.…

Can Xi successfully stage manage Li Keqiang’s legacy?

27 October 2023 10:59 pm

Political deaths in China always carry the risk of social unrest. It was premier Zhou Enlai’s death that triggered the…

Why Putin hosted Hamas at the Kremlin

27 October 2023 10:00 pm

Since Hamas’s attack on Israel nearly three weeks ago, Vladimir Putin has been torn between who to back. It took the…

Let’s do away with EPC ratings

27 October 2023 9:59 pm

The Autumn Statement could propose offering discounts in stamp duty for homebuyers who take improvement to raise the Energy Performance…

Keir Starmer is losing grip on his Israel problem

27 October 2023 9:29 pm

Keir Starmer is losing grip on his party’s position on Israel. So far, over 25 Labour councillors have quit over…

Will the new US Speaker spell trouble for aid to Ukraine?

27 October 2023 9:19 pm

For the past few weeks, the US House Speaker’s chair has sat empty. Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the position…

Do asexuals really face ‘dehumanising discrimination’?

27 October 2023 8:40 pm

Bored with hearing about discrimination towards lesbians and gay men? Having an empathy meltdown when listening to stories of violence,…

Macron is wrong if he thinks Isis is finished

27 October 2023 6:28 pm

Emmanuel Macron has suggested the formation of an international coalition to combat Hamas similar to the one deployed against the…

Sunak sounds the alarm on AI

27 October 2023 2:24 am

‘Dr Death’ was the nickname bestowed on Rishi Sunak by one scientist during Covid. But ‘Dr Doom’ seemed a more…

Israel is facing an existential battle

27 October 2023 12:15 am

Israel is fighting for its life. While the White House remains convinced that it is possible to somehow contain the…

Is a Great British Space Race about to take off?

26 October 2023 8:45 pm

Brits have, for many years, taken a back seat in the Space Race, but that could soon change. An all-UK…

Is the UN’s leader trying to alienate Israel?

26 October 2023 6:25 pm

The Secretary General of the United Nations is conventionally thought of as the world’s most high-profile diplomat, charged with the…

How Netanyahu’s ‘divide and conquer’ strategy backfired

26 October 2023 5:00 pm

Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to the Hamas terror attack has been slow and incompetent. Many of the efforts to house, clothe,…

Netanyahu is looking weak

26 October 2023 9:04 am

If the Israeli public had expected Benjamin Netanyahu to take responsibility for failing to foresee Hamas’s attack on 7 October,…

Who is Mike Johnson, the new House speaker?

26 October 2023 6:32 am

At long last, House Republicans finally selected their new speaker: Mike Johnson, the Shreveport native who resembles nothing so much…

Rishi Sunak has lost his fizz

26 October 2023 3:33 am

A harrowing session at PMQs. Rishi Sunak seemed subdued and de-energised. His fizz had gone flat. The usual hip-wriggling shuffle…