World

The Kansas City Chiefs are the luckiest team in pro sports history

13 December 2024 3:52 am

On Black Friday, I attended a Friendsgiving party where I watched the Chiefs-Raiders game with a friend who is a…

Scotland’s Labour voters support two-child cap, poll finds

13 December 2024 3:34 am

To Scotland, where a new poll has revealed results the Nats may be rather unhappy to see. It now transpires…

Pyongyang is keeping strangely silent on South Korea’s turmoil

13 December 2024 2:23 am

North Korea has long been infamous for its hyperbolic rhetoric. While there are some subjects – such as the locations…

Have Syria’s rebels really reformed?

13 December 2024 2:12 am

There were two scenes from Syria last night screened by the BBC and Channel 4 News that should give the…

How can we complain about the 2034 Saudi World Cup?

13 December 2024 1:38 am

I suppose it is a mild surprise that Fifa didn’t choose Yemen to host the 2034 World Cup, as the…

Allow Shein to list in London

13 December 2024 12:24 am

There are, in fairness, plenty of reasons why the City might be reluctant to embrace the Chinese fast-fashion giant Shein.…

Scotland caves to UK puberty blocker ban

13 December 2024 12:04 am

Well, well, well. It now transpires that the Scottish government will follow Westminster’s lead on the UK puberty blocker ban…

Don’t blame this man for interrupting David Tennant

12 December 2024 11:56 pm

The curse of Macbeth strikes again. David Tennant’s turn as the Scottish psychopath was interrupted this week by a kerfuffle…

Ofgem’s standing charge crackdown is a win for the wealthy

12 December 2024 10:43 pm

At last some good news for owners of second homes: Ofgem has ordered electricity providers to offer tariffs which have…

Why Kemi Badenoch keeps being trounced on immigration

12 December 2024 10:41 pm

At yesterday Prime Minister’s Questions, for the second week running, Kemi Badenoch was savaged by Sir Keir Starmer on the…

Can the gargantuan court backlog be fixed?

12 December 2024 9:56 pm

Just like London buses, you wait ages for a criminal justice review – and then three come along at once. First…

Why did South Korea’s President Yoon declare martial law?

12 December 2024 7:20 pm

The aftershocks of last Tuesday’s declaration, and then cancellation, of martial law by President Yoon Suk Yeol continue to be…

Israel must leave Syria

12 December 2024 7:01 pm

As I walked through Vienna last weekend, I happened upon several protests organised by Syrian refugees celebrating the downfall of…

Is Trump exiling his problem women?

12 December 2024 4:46 am

Maybe the best really was yet to come: Kimberly Guilfoyle has landed the break-up gift of a lifetime, finding herself…

The Saudi Arabia 2034 World Cup is a new low for Fifa

12 December 2024 4:46 am

Saudi Arabia has been confirmed as the host country for the 2034 World Cup tournament. It has been an open secret…

Full list: the MPs scrutinising the Assisted Dying Bill

12 December 2024 4:39 am

At the end of November, Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults Bill passed its second reading with a majority…

Could Reform and the Tories form an electoral pact?

12 December 2024 3:56 am

As if 2024 hadn’t been packed full of elections, eyes are already moving to next year’s local polls – and…

Kemi Badenoch is bad at PMQs

12 December 2024 3:42 am

Flunked it again, unfortunately. Kemi Badenoch chose poor tactics at PMQs. She made flabby speeches instead of hitting the PM…

Why Carlsberg left Russia

12 December 2024 2:39 am

Carlsberg, the brewing giant whose presence in Russia transformed that country’s beverage market, has left. What remains is the lingering…

Shame on the men exploiting Lily Phillips

12 December 2024 2:21 am

Lily Phillips, who had sex with 101 men in a single day in October, has hit the headlines, but the…

Watch: Farming chief weeps at Labour’s tax raid

12 December 2024 1:06 am

The public outrage at Labour’s family farm tax isn’t going away any time soon. Today farmers from across the country…

Starmer and Badenoch clash over immigration at PMQs

12 December 2024 12:15 am

Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch had quite an angry clash at today’s Prime Minister’s Questions. The Tory leader attacked on…

Javier Milei’s medicine is working

11 December 2024 11:51 pm

The economy would crash, the markets would be in open revolt, and he would swiftly be evicted from office by…

Is Humza Yousaf picking a fight with GB News?

11 December 2024 11:14 pm

Back to Scotland, where it appears hapless Humza Yousaf is still trying to stay relevant by going after, er, GB…

Labour’s planning reforms look like a way of punishing Tory voters

11 December 2024 10:56 pm

Is the government’s housing policy aimed principally at increasing the stock of homes and making them more affordable or at…