World
It’s time to get on with the Indian trade deal
The trade secretary Kemi Badenoch will be in India this week for a meeting of G20 trade ministers. The Prime…
House prices are falling. But it’s still terrible for first-time buyers
Hurrah. Housing is now more ‘affordable’ for first-time buyers than it was a year ago. Or so says Halifax, which…
The EU is heading for a bruising showdown with eastern Europe
Eurocrats don’t naturally do compromise, but Brussels may have to learn to compromise quite fast if it is to have…
Why India wants to conquer the moon
India – or, to be more precise, its leader Narendra Modi – wants to conquer space. That is why the…
The developing world has grown tired of Britain’s hypocrisy
The timing could not have been worse for Rishi Sunak. Just days after it was confirmed by Downing Street that…
There is no best martini
What’s the best suit? To an American, it’s something from Brooks Brothers. Classical, democratic and made with high quality. To…
How did United handle the Mason Greenwood scandal so badly?
It’s hard not to be shocked by the distressing clip shared online, allegedly featuring the Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood.…
Musk’s minions put Labour in its place
Oh dear. It seems that, in their earnestness to make capital out of tragedy, Labour have slipped up again. The…
Wandsworth Council’s troubling trans case
News of a troubling case reaches Steerpike. Earlier this month the Administrative Court handed down judgment in the case of…
Why public schools never have enough money
The new school year is just a few weeks away, and that can only mean one thing: right on cue,…
The rise of America’s anti-corporate populists
They are the Odd Couple of the United States Senate. She is a progressive Democrat and senior senator from true-blue…
Manchester United failed Mason Greenwood
So, the Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood has not been found guilty of the offences of attempted rape and coercive…
The endless hypocrisy of the comedy class
Personally I find TV panel shows pretty unbearable. They’re like being at a student party full of lairy smartarses you…
Jeremy Hunt’s big spending pledges are coming home to roost
The Office for National Statistics reports this morning that public sector net borrowing in July came in at £4.3 billion. This is…
2024 is America’s ‘lock him up’ election
It’s time to acknowledge the obvious truth about 2024: it’s going to be an election about who Americans want to…
The virtue-signaling behind the renaming of the Middlebury College chapel
Early on the morning of September 27, 2021, Middlebury College president Laurie Patton had a stone bearing the name of…
Starmer will have cash to spend, thanks to the Tories
It’s great to see Philip Collins back in the Times: you may agree or disagree with him as a columnist but his writing…
Should Lucy Letby have been allowed to miss her sentencing?
Until a few years ago I had never heard of a single case of a murderer declining to go into…
Full text: The Lucy Letby sentencing remarks
Lucy Letby has been sentenced to a whole life jail term, after being found guilty of murdering seven babies and…
Sadiq Khan’s racial dystopia
Imagine if the Mayor of London was a Tory and his website featured an image of a black family alongside…
Is the Home Office working against the Tories?
It has long been suggested by senior politicians from both main parties that civil servants in the Home Office pick…
We are facing an epidemic of online fraud
At what point are we going to drop the fiction that acquisitive crime is on the wane and admit that…
Watch: DeSantis grinds teeth during grilling
Poor Ron DeSantis. Once, he was the frontrunner to take over the Republican mantle from Trump. But now, following a…
Sanctions are failing to turn Putin’s oligarchs against him
When personal sanctions on Russian oligarchs and officials were imposed by the UK, US and EU after Putin’s invasion, the…
What the future holds for women’s football
Well, that’s the end of that. Football, like an unrepentant runaway, stubbornly refuses to come home. Spain, deservedly probably, edged…
