World

Silence of the Jussie Smollett defenders

11 December 2021 5:16 am

Some people say that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Nonsense. There is also the certainty that…

Ian Maxwell: Ghislaine thinks Epstein was murdered

11 December 2021 2:46 am

Away from the shenanigans of Westminster, the details of Ghislaine Maxwell’s ongoing trial have been filling our national newspapers this…

Emily Ratajkowski is having her cake and eating it

11 December 2021 2:36 am

After listening to an hour-and-a-half of Emily Ratajkowski talking about My Body I had to look up naked pictures of…

Whitehall hit by party cancellations

11 December 2021 1:30 am

After a fraught few months, you’d have hoped the hard-pressed masters and mandarins of Whitehall could let their hair down with…

The economy was stagnant even before Plan B

10 December 2021 10:20 pm

The economy is tantalisingly close to returning to pre-pandemic levels, now just 0.5 per cent off recovery. But this last…

The three problems facing Boris Johnson

10 December 2021 7:40 pm

Boris Johnson may be celebrating the birth of a baby daughter but that doesn’t mean the pressure on him is…

Jussie Smollett and the rise of American hate hoaxing

10 December 2021 6:45 pm

So Jussie Smollett, the world’s most notorious hate hoaxer, has at last been found guilty of lying to the police. …

China is right to laugh at the west

10 December 2021 6:54 am

Signs of the enervating weakness of the west’s governing elites aren’t that hard to find but the case of the…

The rise of the second-string left

10 December 2021 6:17 am

If a recent Scientific American opinion piece purporting to explain how growing opposition to critical race theory damages public education…

Saint Jacinda's war on fags

10 December 2021 1:20 am

It is a curious irony that the West’s leading progressive icon is probably the most authoritarian leader in the free world…

Not all Durham students want to silence Rod Liddle

10 December 2021 12:39 am

A week on from Rod Liddle’s appearance at a dinner at Durham university’s South College, the fallout continues. Yesterday, my…

Hillary Clinton's latest masterclass

10 December 2021 12:10 am

It’s been a tough few years for poor old Hillary. Since losing the 2016 contest to Donald Trump, the ‘most…

Is this the real reason Boris introduced Covid restrictions?

10 December 2021 12:05 am

If a day is a long time in politics, 36 hours is a lifetime with this government. On Tuesday morning,…

The battle for Ukraine has already been lost

9 December 2021 11:42 pm

Forget the ‘commitment‘ of the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Ukraine’s sovereignty, the EU’s ‘firm and decisive’ support, and…

The BBC is right to ditch the 'Bame' label

9 December 2021 9:23 pm

Broadcasters in the UK have declared they will no longer use the acronym BAME to refer to black, Asian and…

How much trouble is Boris Johnson in?

9 December 2021 8:35 pm

Just how bad is it for Boris Johnson? In some ways it’s difficult to tell, this is a prime minister…

Islamonomics: how Erdogan crashed the Turkish economy

9 December 2021 6:30 pm

The Turkish lira sank to an all-time low against the dollar last week. The lira shed 30 per cent of…

Punishing the unvaccinated threatens everyone's liberty

9 December 2021 6:00 pm

How should we treat the unvaccinated? Should we stop them from participating in normal life? Castigate them in the media?…

Missing Bob Dole in witless Washington

9 December 2021 2:07 pm

Bob Dole passed away this week, and according to the press coverage, he took with him an entire golden age…

Why shouldn’t conservatives ‘build their own Twitter’?

9 December 2021 2:05 pm

Taco Bell Patron in the year 2032: “What would you say if I called you a brutish fossil, symbolic of…

Boris takes his colleagues for fools

9 December 2021 7:15 am

Is Boris Johnson really deploying a ‘diversionary tactic’ in announcing vaccine passports on the day he has had to perform…

What’s the evidence for England’s vaccine passports?

9 December 2021 6:02 am

The Prime Minister has just announced Plan B. Working from home has been all but mandated and large venues —…

Durham students' Rod Liddle protest in pictures

9 December 2021 5:37 am

After eighteen months of Covid, there were some who feared the age-old tradition of the campus leftie had died out.…

Stratton resigns – but the row isn't over

9 December 2021 3:50 am

The row over the Downing Street ‘party’ has claimed its first victim. On Wednesday Allegra Stratton announced that she was…

PMQs: Boris's nadir

9 December 2021 3:05 am

The bombshell at bay. That’s how Boris looked at today’s PMQs. Deflated, cornered, winded and lifeless. Gone were the chuckles…