World
The Manchester Evening News’s shameful treatment of a hotel employee
What is the purpose of a local newspaper? Time was, it was to stand up for local people against the…
What Brits don’t understand about life in Russia
When I tell people in England I’ve just returned from several years abroad and they find out the country was…
Talk of a housing ‘crash’ isn’t quite what it seems
House prices dropped more than was expected this month, falling 5.3 per cent compared to August last year. The value of…
Why Iranians don’t hate Israel
One is an oppressive regime that guns down its own people, promotes a radical Islamist theology and hangs gay people…
Is printing too much money the real cause of inflation?
Every month, the Bank of England publishes new data on the flows of money and credit around the UK economy.…
Danielle McGahey should not be allowed to play women’s cricket
Danielle McGahey is set to become the first transgender cricketer to play an official Twenty20 international. The 29-year old Australian-born…
Homelessness in black and white
I stood across the street from Seattle’s City Hall, next to a long line of tents. There were more than…
College-town blues
College towns are “decimating the GOP,” reported Politico in July, the reason being, in part, that “more college students and more faculty…
It’s always Chablis weather
It is very hot here in New England at the end of July. It was hot a week or two…
Elon Musk wants your biometric data, please
Get a sample of your bodily fluids ready: Elon Musk is coming for them. X, the social media company formerly…
Yes, it’s too early for pumpkin beer
The biggest purveyor of misinformation at the moment isn’t a podcast host or a foreign adversary. It’s a brewery. Since…
The sinister online mobbing of Róisín Murphy
In the past they would put a witches’ bridle on women who yapped too much. Any woman judged to be…
What’s the point of forcing murderers like Lucy Letby into the dock?
We all recoiled when Lucy Letby, a nurse of all things, was convicted of killing seven babies in cold blood.…
Will Senator Mitch McConnell step down after his latest freezing episode?
Senator Mitch McConnell appeared to have another elderly moment in Kentucky following an event yesterday, where a question about whether…
Why musicians can’t stand politicians liking their songs
I was amused to hear that Eminem has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy –…
Rishi Sunak’s crime crackdown is too little, too late
Conservative parties everywhere have traditionally been identified with maintaining law and order and cracking down on crime. As part of…
Flour power: a single ingredient can be life-changing
Growing up in a “mixed” American household, of Indian, Puerto Rican and Italian descent, was deeply confusing during my formative…
Has America lapsed into a gerontocracy?
Although I write at high summer, by the time you read this another school year will be upon us. I…
The time is ripe for a liberal revival of the Church of England
Things are looking up for the Church of England. Its painful era of disunity is behind it, or soon will…
New Zealand’s election spells trouble for Hipkins’ Labour party
New Zealand’s parliament adjourns this week, officially kicking off six weeks of political campaigning ahead of a general election on…
James Cleverly is clueless on China
At least James Cleverly had somebody to meet. The Foreign Secretary’s last effort to get to Beijing was postponed after…
Heart of Invictus shows Prince Harry at his best
After a year that would have exhausted any normal human being – with the past 12 months including, but not…
James Cleverly’s China trip is a betrayal of the Uyghurs
Think of the genocides that have taken place in the past. Picture the hardened faces of the perpetrators you’ve seen…
The break up of Bosnia-Herzegovina cannot come soon enough
If you fret about a democratic deficit in the EU or even Britain, turn your mind for a moment to…
Spain’s MeToo problem goes far beyond the Rubiales scandal
The Luis Rubiales scandal is being presented in Britain as ‘The kiss that started Spain’s MeToo movement’. But, in reality,…
