World

Giorgia Meloni shows Silvio Berlusconi who’s boss

19 October 2022 10:20 pm

Giorgia Meloni, who is about to become Italy’s first female prime minister, has won her first major battle. It was…

The Shakespearean tragedy of Liz Truss

19 October 2022 8:25 pm

In his book The Five Basic Plots, Christopher Booker outlines five stages of tragedy: anticipation, dream, frustration, nightmare, destruction. So…

Could the Tories’ downfall be Reform’s big chance?

19 October 2022 8:00 pm

The Reform party, under its leader Richard Tice, invented Trussonomics before Liz Truss – launching an economic recovery plan in…

Inflation is getting worse

19 October 2022 5:50 pm

In all the recent economic chaos, it’s been easy to overlook one of the most important factors contributing to the…

Poland wants reparations from Germany

19 October 2022 5:35 pm

If you think British politics is cracked, spare a thought for Europe. A spat between Germany and Poland is rapidly developing…

Politicians can’t fix our economic woes

19 October 2022 4:25 pm

The knives are out for the Prime Minister. The world watches as Britain falls into a simultaneous political and economic…

The murder of Lola and the failure of Marconism

19 October 2022 4:00 pm

Last Friday, a beautiful 12-year-old Paris girl named Lola failed to come home from middle school. Later that evening, her…

Meghan Markle’s meeting of the minds with Paris Hilton

19 October 2022 4:00 pm

‘I am kind, I have a big heart, I’m an Aquarius. I love animals and I’m shy. I’m a tomboy.…

What I saw at the Restoring a Nation conference

19 October 2022 1:32 pm

Take a drive through Steubenville, Ohio, Patrick Deneen urged the crowd at the recent Restoring a Nation conference. In downtown…

J.D. Vance owns Tim Ryan after Ryan calls him a racist

19 October 2022 5:59 am

Cockburn watched with delight last night as Ohio’s Democratic candidate for US Senate, Tim Ryan, served up an absurd accusation…

Sleepy Joe leads the work-from-home crusade

19 October 2022 3:14 am

Rejoice, slackers of America! For there is a new figurehead leading your crusade for lunchtime naps, camera-off Zoom meetings and…

Carnage meets courtesy at the Georgia debates

19 October 2022 12:09 am

Atlanta, Georgia Georgia’s leading political candidates crossed swords earlier this week at the Georgia Public Broadcasting studios for the Atlanta…

The threat of Chinese headhunters

18 October 2022 11:20 pm

It is hard to say what is more shocking, dozens of former British military pilots lured by vast salaries to…

Now the Aussies mock Truss too

18 October 2022 10:23 pm

How are the mighty fallen. Once, Liz Truss was the toast of Canberra, the champion of AUKUS and a Free…

Beware a Tory in a hurry

18 October 2022 9:40 pm

Liz Truss will not lead the Conservative party into the next general election, despite her rather hesitant claim to the…

Support the strikes!

18 October 2022 9:00 pm

There are no two groups more different than climate protesters and striking workers. The former are mostly plummy layabouts, posh…

Rishi Sunak lost. Get over it

18 October 2022 5:30 pm

The WhatsApp message doing the rounds in Westminster yesterday was succinct: ‘Rishi PM. Hunt Chx. Penny FS. It’s a done…

Stop blaming Tory members

18 October 2022 4:45 pm

With Jeremy Hunt installed as the representative Sensible and Penny Mordaunt answering questions in the House, Liz Truss has been…

Britain needs more honesty about unemployment

18 October 2022 4:30 pm

Is low unemployment causing us more problems than we realise? The suggestion might seem absurd, offensive even. It’s reminiscent of…

Is TRUTH Social doomed to fail?

18 October 2022 1:26 pm

Following his suspension from Twitter in the wake of January 6, the question of where Donald Trump would take his…

Los Angeles will never be multicultural heaven

18 October 2022 1:22 pm

A secret hour-long recording of an October 2021 meeting of Los Angeles city politicos surfaced last week, as California’s midterm…

Liz Truss apologises for the chaos. What next?

18 October 2022 8:29 am

Finally, we hear from the Prime Minister. Liz Truss has given an interview to the BBC’s political editor Chris Mason.…

The mystery of chronic Lyme disease

18 October 2022 5:04 am

I struggled to pull myself out of bed in the morning. I slept for hours at lunch breaks and was…

Has Hunt restored the government’s fiscal credibility?

18 October 2022 4:23 am

Jeremy Hunt set out at the start of the weekend with one goal in mind: that when the gilt markets…

Cancelled Kanye West buys cancelled free speech platform Parler

18 October 2022 4:20 am

Hear Ye Hear Ye! The news today has broken that Kanye West – who calls himself Ye – has bought Parler, the…