World

We shouldn’t rest until all ‘smart’ motorways are axed

20 April 2023 4:30 pm

Six months after he became Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak has finally honoured one of the smaller, but more eye-catching, promises…

Taylor Swift avoids FTX ‘Bad Blood’

20 April 2023 5:54 am

What do Tom Brady and Taylor Swift have in common? Both blonde, both wealthy, both recently single. As for their…

We’ll miss Rupert Murdoch when he’s gone

20 April 2023 1:35 am

The idea that Donald Trump was denied victory in the 2020 presidential election by conspirators determined to fiddle with the…

What would it take for house prices to crash?

20 April 2023 12:28 am

Just what would it take to induce a housing price crash in Britain? Evidently, more than a Bank of England…

How dare William Hague lecture the Women’s Institute on trans rights

19 April 2023 11:06 pm

I see it is acceptable again for men to tell women what to do. And to snap ‘Get over it!’…

Why WhatsApp could quit the UK over the Online Safety Bill

19 April 2023 9:25 pm

WhatsApp, Signal and five other messaging services have joined forces to attack the government’s Online Safety Bill. They fear the bill will kill…

Stubborn inflation rates spell trouble for Rishi Sunak

19 April 2023 7:06 pm

The rate of inflation has come down, barely. This morning’s update from the Office for National Statistics shows inflation fell to 10.1…

Russian patriotism isn’t what Putin thinks it is

19 April 2023 5:55 pm

With Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine showing no signs of reaching a conclusion, a recent study by the country’s main…

The end of the Fox-Dominion circus

19 April 2023 4:28 pm

Now that Dominion Voting Systems has settled for $787.5 million (£633 million) – less than half the $1.6 billion (£1.3 billion) they…

Fox settles in Dominion defamation case

19 April 2023 3:59 pm

Talk about denying us a grand finale. Moments before the defamation ‘trial of the century’ was due to begin, media…

The Murdoch empire’s darkest secret

19 April 2023 4:38 am

One way or another, we’re almost all ‘content creators’ these days, humble social-media serfs toiling away in the Silicon Valley…

Zululand, not Disneyland

19 April 2023 12:33 am

I’d heard that KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa delivers life-changing memories. Roaming Shaka Zulu’s hunting ground. The Big Five. Bushveld…

Why is Netflix pretending that Cleopatra was black?

18 April 2023 9:49 pm

‘I remember my grandmother saying to me: I don’t care what they tell you in school, Cleopatra was black.’ So…

The EU is alienating eastern Europe

18 April 2023 9:14 pm

For most of its 66 years of existence, a vital part of the EU’s mission has been the inexorable expansion…

Why is Just Stop Oil targeting the snooker?

18 April 2023 8:48 pm

Just Stop Oil has finally hit the fossil-fuel barons where it hurts: the World Snooker Championship. Last night, play was disrupted…

Angela Merkel doesn’t deserve to be honoured by Germany

18 April 2023 8:47 pm

It must rank as some form of political satire that Angela Merkel has been awarded Germany’s highest political honour. Not…

Has the single sex trans school conundrum finally been resolved?

18 April 2023 7:42 pm

For too long, some teachers and schools have been making it up as they go along when presented with the…

Six things we know about the Fox Dominion defamation trial

18 April 2023 6:39 pm

Who needs Succession when we have Dominion? A billion-dollar lawsuit involving a media tycoon, the 2020 presidential race and a…

Does Macron regret celebrating Lula’s Brazilian victory?

18 April 2023 6:16 pm

The headline in the Guardian could not have spelt it out more clearly: ‘World leaders rush to congratulate Lula on…

Sudan’s dreams of democracy appear to be over

18 April 2023 5:24 pm

Fighting is raging once again in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, where a power struggle between rival factions has claimed…

The Internet Archive’s troubles are bad news for book lovers

18 April 2023 3:26 pm

The Internet Archive (archive.org), a San Francisco-based virtual lending library, is one of the quiet wonders of the modern world. A…

What will happen to interest rates once they peak?

18 April 2023 3:43 am

As the battle of the economic forecasts rages on, it’s useful to note that (right now, anyway), the predictions aren’t…

The jailing of Kremlin critic Kara-Murza is a message from Putin

18 April 2023 3:23 am

In a warning to Kremlin critics everywhere, the prominent Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza has today been sentenced to 25…

London’s stock market risks sinking into irrelevance

18 April 2023 1:50 am

The chip maker ARM decided against listing its shares in London, despite plenty of arm twisting from the government. The…

Net zero will make flying more expensive

18 April 2023 1:41 am

Are we going to have to give up flying to save the planet? Many climate campaigners have been saying so…