World
Could Sarina Wiegman be the next England (men’s) manager?
Sarina Wiegman, the manager of England’s women’s football team, probably has a lot on her mind at the moment, what…
It’s no surprise that retail sales are down
Following last week’s news of unexpectedly strong economic growth in June of 0.5 per cent, today’s retail sales figures for…
Enforce the borders, stop the boats, save lives
Rishi Sunak has failed in his pledge to ‘Stop the Boats’, and the £480 million deal he signed with France…
GERS Day isn’t great for the Union
For a decade or so, GERS Day has been something of an annual gloatfest for opponents of Scottish independence. The…
WhatsApp messages shouldn’t be criminalised
Imagine a policeman feels your collar and tells you you’re nicked because someone has reported you for telling off-colour stories…
The Biden admin was prepared to leave behind our Afghan allies
The administration’s utter failure to plan for the inevitable Afghanistan evacuation meant that it had barely enough resources to focus…
Is Shohei Ohtani the GOAT?
How good is Shohei Ohtani? “If he were a Yankee, he’d be Taylor Swift-famous,” a friend says. That might be…
Unfair A-levels are the best idea we’ve got
A-level results day is the most terrifying moment in anyone’s education. Poor GCSEs can be overlooked by a school that…
RSPB president clashes with his own charity
When it comes to conservation, it seems that not all at the RSPB are singing from the same hymn sheet.…
Michael Parkinson and the lost art of the interview
Two or three years ago, the Tory MP Jonathan Gullis was ridiculed for describing himself as ‘someone who grew up…
Why is Rishi rolling out the red carpet for MBS?
Why is the government so keen for Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and de facto ruler, to visit…
Why the Kremlin sees Britain as the ultimate bogeyman
Perfidious Albion is at it again. The Kremlin’s increasingly unhinged obsession with seeing a British hand behind its various upsets…
What we don’t know about the suspected Bulgarian spies
As a British former foreign correspondent in Moscow and Washington, there are few subjects I turn to with more trepidation…
Yes, Bradley Cooper’s fake nose is anti-Semitic
Bradley Cooper is not anti-Semitic. If he was, he’d surely have let it slip by now; as Mel Gibson proved…
Why is the WHO promoting homeopathy?
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is meant to implore us to ignore hearsay and folklore, and to follow the scientific…
Humza Yousaf is becoming a master at alienating Scottish voters
At last, a target Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf should have no trouble meeting. Waiting lists? The attainment gap? Dualling the…
Even high oil revenues can’t fix Scotland’s deficit
It’s Scotland’s annual Gers shenanigans this week. If you don’t already know, Gers stands for ‘Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland’.…
How preserving old houses helps defeat wokeness
To thwart the woke objective, the non-woke need to muster every asset we can. If you’re planning to relocate to…
Oliver Anthony and the snobbery of American conservatives
If there is a right-wing cultural aesthetic in America, it is low-brow resentment. The old liberal-conservative tradition prized truth, beauty…
Graham Linehan and the Fringe’s new puritanism
Back in the 1980s and ‘90s, Moira Knox was one of the biggest names on the Edinburgh Fringe. She was…
Is Jordan Peterson’s book all it’s cracked up to be?
Jordan Peterson has never been shy about dispensing advice. But has the court of the Canadian philosopher king now overreached…
What does it take to get you cancelled at the Edinburgh Fringe?
So, let me get this right: at the Edinburgh Fringe, comedians who make jokes about killing and raping women are welcome, but…
Is Putin outsourcing his espionage to Bulgaria?
Bulgaria is a country that doesn’t often feature on Britain’s radar – beyond being a location for cheap package holidays and…
I’m afraid of higher wages
So, Britain has finally awarded itself the real-terms pay rise that the unions would say workers ‘deserve’. This morning’s inflation…
Is it really not safe to extradite someone to Japan?
In November 2015 three men entered a jewellery shop in Tokyo’s upmarket Omotesando district, beat and injured a security guard, smashed a…
