World
The post-Covid boom means inflation will be back
Amid the panic over the Indian variant this week it would have been easy to miss news that the Consumer…
Prince William’s extraordinary attack on the BBC
The tone of his delivery was subdued, which belied the severity with which the future king, Prince William, battered an…
The Oriel dons are right: Rhodes should not fall
Cecil Rhodes’ contemporary, Rudyard Kipling, put it best: ‘If you can keep your head when all about you are losing…
Prince Harry criticises his family (again)
Just days after appearing on a podcast in which he called America’s first amendment ‘bonkers‘ Prince Harry has now popped…
How Israel won the war
Golda Meir, Israel’s first female Prime Minister, once said that when forced to choose between being ‘dead and pitied’ or…
Why do parts of Britain erupt whenever Israel defends itself?
There has been a huge amount of comment in recent days on the latest round of exchanges between Israel and…
Hacked Off's curious silence on Martin Bashir
It has not been a happy day for those in Broadcasting House. An inquiry into Martin Bashir’s 1995 Panorama interview with Princess…
Has India's second Covid wave peaked?
While the Indian variant continues to dominate the headlines, India itself seems to have dropped out of the news a…
Trans offenders are skewing crime statistics
Tonia Antoniazzi’s speech in the House of Commons this week was remarkable, not because of what she said – the…
Why are the Greens so opposed to the hydrogen economy?
As the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow approaches, it is only to be expected that charities, lobbyists, special interest groups…
Jacinda Ardern's immigration clampdown
For several years now New Zealand Jacinda Ardern has enjoyed the status of being one of the world’s leading liberal icons.…
What's the real reason so many people hate Israel?
Did you know that for the past three weeks Turkey has been engaged in a military assault on Iraqi Kurdistan?…
Biden tells Coast Guard graduates: ‘You’re a really dull class’
President Joe Biden insulted a class of Coast Guard Academy graduates during his commencement address on Wednesday, declaring to the…
Sturgeon’s new cabinet reveals a dearth of talent
Nicola Sturgeon’s cabinet reshuffle is an object lesson in making a very limited talent pool go a long way. John…
Stonewall and the silencing of feminist voices at universities
This week a game-changer of a report released by Essex university led to its Vice Chancellor abjectly apologising for the…
The insanity of Britain's housing market
On the day the Office for National Statistics announced a sharp rise in consumer price inflation, albeit to a still…
Sir Keir was defeated by his own strategy at PMQs
The great thing about being trashed in the polls is that the tiniest improvement looks like a triumphant comeback. At…
Pimlico Academy and the politicisation of the playground
The strange tale of Pimlico Academy, the central London school roiled by ‘anti-racist’ protests, shows us that the culture war…
Hamas, not Israel, is to blame for the latest bloodshed
I was born in the Jordanian-occupied Old City in Jerusalem and lived in a UN refugee camp from 1966 until…
Inflation is the biggest threat to Boris
The vaccines are rolling out. Lockdown is easing, the EU has been forgotten about, and the Labour party has returned…
London Labour youth wing calls for the abolition of Israel
Pro-Palestine rallies were held across the country at the weekend amid the deteriorating situation in the Middle East. Onetime Labour leader…
The Australian trade deal is about more than just trade
What happens with an Australia trade deal won’t just reveal how serious this country is about free trade but also…
Does getting Covid-19 protect you against reinfection?
How well does prior exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus protect you against reinfection? It has been a hotly-debated subject since…
Shame on the 'free Palestine' police officer
Picture the scene. A female police officer — hi-viz police jacket, regulation black hat, facemask slipping from her nose —…
What Greenpeace's 'Wasteminster' stunt won't tell you
Greenpeace has been responsible for many a fatuous stunt over the years, but its latest video has a point. It…
