World
Hard Times for Sunak as his ratings slump again
It’s tough at the top. A new poll out today from the Times shows that for all the hype around…
Bill Gates has made a surprisingly good point about net zero
Is Bill Gates a sage figure who can help save the world from climate change? Or is he a dreadful…
An invasion of Gaza is hugely risky for Israel
In a sign that the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) is planning to ramp up the war in Gaza, Israel has…
France’s Jews are afraid
Emmanuel Macron addressed France on television on Thursday evening. It was an opportunity for the president to reiterate his support…
How Hamas fooled Israel – and the West
How to explain Israel’s intelligence and military failure? The obvious comparison – one Israelis themselves are making – is with…
Wayne Rooney and the trouble with football’s big-name managers
Birmingham City’s new American owners are hungry for success and think Wayne Rooney, the former Manchester United and England striker,…
Trump’s callous Israel remarks should be disqualifying
Donald Trump has always had a close but uneasy relationship with Jews that is not confined to his son-in-law Jared…
Supporting Israel doesn’t mean abandoning Ukraine
Hamas’s heinous attack and the robust Israeli response serve as a useful reminder of well-known double standards on the activist…
Captain Tom’s family admit they would pocket £800,000 book profits again
Just when we thought we’d heard the last of Captain Tom’s family, the pandemic hero’s disgraced family have been at…
This is what a ‘multipolar’ world looks like. It’s chaos
The Hamas terror attack has triggered war in Gaza, a geopolitical crisis and now – from Sydney to New York…
Is Israel ready for a full-scale invasion of Gaza?
Israel is likely to need every one of the 300,000 soldiers it is amassing on the border with Gaza if,…
Do Jewish Lives Matter too?
For more than a year, English footballers took the knee in solidarity with a petty criminal who was murdered by…
Is Israel’s siege of Gaza illegal?
In retaliation to over a thousand Israeli dead, the country’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has vowed to besiege Gaza. In a statement…
Why should British Jews take their skullcaps off?
I was proud when my son, then aged three, wore his kippa (Jewish skullcap) for the first time. We placed…
The winners and losers of this year’s conference season
Conference season 2023 is done and dusted, with punchy Wes Streeting having performed the final significant act yesterday via his…
No wonder Britain’s prisons are almost full
It’s finally happened. Our prisons are almost full. Last night the Times reported that ‘Lord Justice Edis, the senior presiding…
Britain’s sluggish growth is nothing to celebrate
So, the doomsters have been proved wrong again – not least the Bank of England, which a year ago forecast…
The desperate plight of Humza Yousaf’s relatives, trapped in Gaza
Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf has his flaws as a politician but when it comes to the brutal attacks on…
Putin has been blindsided by the Israel attack
Inevitably, some have tried to suggest the terrorist invasion of Israel was in some ways orchestrated by Moscow. ‘Russia is…
Will the ‘Al-Aqsa flood’ unite the Islamic world?
The name of Hamas’ deadly terrorist attack on Israel over the weekend, the ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’, was deliberately chosen to galvanise…
Do social housing residents really age slower?
Great news. Living in a damp home can help you live longer. Admittedly, I am not all that convinced, but…
Another nude Biden pic scandal?
There’s something about mirrors and cameras that the Biden men just can’t seem to resist — they are compelled to…
Harvard’s shameful response to the Hamas attacks
Harvard university is at the centre of an unprecedented backlash after some of its students released an inflammatory statement claiming…
The Middle East’s new grandmasters
On Monday, while IDF troops were clearing the last Hamas terrorists from Israeli communities near the Gaza border, Benjamin Netanyahu…
What happened to ‘Never again’?
For Jews everywhere, there was an eery familiarity about the terrible violence unleashed on Israel during Saturday’s attack by Hamas.…
