World
The shameful desecration of Israel’s kidnapped children
We have seen many grim images over the past two weeks. Images of the apocalyptic, Isis-style violence visited upon the…
Dave Courtney and the grotty reality of true crime
The death of the gangster Dave Courtney – found in his bed with a gunshot wound at the age of…
How serious is Keir Starmer about devolution?
With a general election – and the prospect of forming a government – now firmly on the horizon, the Labour…
Keir Starmer’s Israel problem is growing
It wasn’t so long ago that Keir Starmer was being widely praised for keeping his party united and on message…
The Guardian’s questionable Holocaust article
Oh dear. The world’s wokest media outlet is at it again. When they’re not moralising over artists or misattributing quotes,…
The EU’s muddled response to Gaza has exposed its flaws
The EU’s response to the war between Israel and Gaza has been badly muddled. While Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden…
Hamas has made the same fatal mistake as the IRA
As Israel releases body cam footage showing the stark reality of Hamas terrorists’ brutal attacks on civilians during their assault…
Sunak to lift bankers’ bonus cap
Rishi Sunak is in office but Liz Truss remains in power. That’s the line that Labour are pushing on today’s…
Invading Gaza will cost Israel more than just lives lost
In an address to soldiers on Saturday, Israel’s chief of staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi outlined the aims of the…
Emmer next up? A complete guide to the House speaker race
Will today be the day we get a permanent speaker of the House? It’s tough to say. House Republicans huddled…
All is not lost for Argentina’s anarcho-capitalist presidential hopeful
Argentina’s presidential hopeful Javier Milei will have to wait to turn his country into an anarcho-capitalist anti-state where the peso…
Will the UK proscribe Iran’s revolutionary guard?
Why won’t the government proscribe the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps? MPs have been asking that question for more than a…
Labour’s Hansard howlers on Israel
Communication is everything in politics, as Labour’s overactive press office knows all too well. Earlier this month, Keir Starmer did…
Where is the empathy for innocent Israelis?
This open letter, signed by Simon Sebag Montefiore and others, was first published in the ‘Chronicle for Higher Education’. It…
Why does Macron think France should learn to live with terrorism?
When an Islamist extremist charged into his school in Arras, northern France, with a knife, Christian Berroyer could have hidden…
Israel’s plight exposes the truth about virtue signalling ‘values’
Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, recently took a pop at immigrants who she accused of failing to ‘embrace British values’.…
How the Arab world turned against Hamas
What do people think of Hamas? In recent days, this has been something of a vexed question for many in…
Will Germany’s new left-wing party challenge the AfD?
Sahra Wagenknecht, a pivotal figure of the German left, has decided to go up against her former party by launching…
Sunak declares ‘watershed moment’ in Middle East
Rishi Sunak’s update to MPs on the Israel-Hamas conflict today included the revelation that the UK security services had concluded…
What liberal America gets wrong about Trump supporters
Hillary Clinton normally speaks in carefully crafted bromides, so when I read in the New York Post about her risqué suggestion during…
Netanyahu has good reasons to delay the ground invasion of Gaza
Israel has called in more than 300,000 reservists in the 17 days since Hamas’s monstrous attack on 7 October. Many…
Summer madness in Helsinki
“For the bravest in the group. Exit Flow from the back.” “We’ve found it. It is insane.” “This is the…
The Met Police’s ‘jihad’ lecture shows it has lost the plot
I knew the police had lost the plot, but even I didn’t expect them to start issuing chin-stroking theological justifications…
Are Amazon’s publishing gurus doing anything wrong?
Alex Kaplo lives, apparently, the life of Riley. The 31-year-old’s website shows him roaring around in a Mercedes, and he…
The taxman’s dodgy data
Ten years ago, HMRC unveiled what was billed as ‘the biggest change’ to the tax system since PAYE began in…
