Lara Brown

Are you too cool for marriage?

29 November 2025 9:00 am

The term ‘spinster’ doesn’t seem to scare young women like it once might have. In fact, it is rarely heard…

Are refugees really worth £266,000 each to the UK economy?

18 November 2025 10:40 pm

Refugees could contribute £266,000 each to the UK economy: that’s the claim made by the Together with Refugees coalition and…

Revealed: the bias of the BBC News app

15 November 2025 9:00 am

The most influential person in British media is not Rupert Murdoch or Lord Rothermere – it’s the editor who pushes…

Labour has surrendered to the quangocracy

6 November 2025 7:11 pm

After 16 months of this Labour government, it’s easy to catalogue the litany of bad decisions made by ministers. The…

Why Jess Phillips can’t confront the reality of grooming gangs

30 October 2025 5:00 pm

In May 2015, the newly elected MP for Birmingham Yardley gave her maiden speech in the House of Commons. Jess…

‘Trump isn’t easy’: Piers Morgan on his friends – and foes

25 October 2025 9:00 am

When I meet Piers Morgan, he warns me he’s glued to the ‘moment in history’ happening on his TV screens…

Is the grooming gang inquiry headed for a whitewash?

18 October 2025 1:24 am

Keir Starmer did not want to hold an inquiry into grooming gangs.  He did everything that he could to ignore the…

What has Hollywood done to Wuthering Heights?

5 September 2025 4:00 pm

‘Come undone’, the billboard reads. Two hands are clasped together. On another a blonde-haired woman lies prone on a fuzzy…

Could you fall in love with a chatbot?

23 August 2025 9:09 am

Jason, 45, has been divorced twice. He’d always struggled with relationships. In despair, he consulted ChatGPT. At first, it was…

Why Generation Woke loves romantasy

2 August 2025 9:00 am

When the willowy human Feyre meets the faerie Tamlin in A Court of Thorns and Roses (known as ACOTAR by…

Tsunami hits Hawaii and US mainland

30 July 2025 11:16 pm

Tsunami alerts were triggered this morning across the Pacific after an earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. The quake, one…

The Online Safety Act and Labour’s ‘ancient’ institutions

30 July 2025 10:17 pm

After Reform promised to repeal the Online Safety Act, it didn’t take long for Labour to defend internet censorship. ‘And…

Museums like the V&A shouldn’t be allowed to return ‘looted’ treasures

9 July 2025 3:47 pm

Henry Cole, the first director of what would become the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), could never have imagined that…

A grooming gang inquiry will expose Labour’s guilty men

17 June 2025 8:40 pm

Sir Keir Starmer claimed in January that those who were concerned about the systematic rape and abuse of little girls…

The next front in the gender wars

31 May 2025 9:00 am

April’s Supreme Court judgment ought to have been the final nail in the coffin for transgender ideology. The belief that…

King’s College Cambridge is wrong to cut ties with arms firms

22 May 2025 3:30 pm

Who says that student activism is pointless? Setting up a tent, donning a keffiyeh, and camping out on your university’s…

Gender ideology is still dictating NHS policy

17 May 2025 2:23 am

The NHS have decided that there is no minimum age before a child can begin treatment for gender dysphoria. Freedom…

What is the Tate Modern for?

11 May 2025 4:30 pm

Twenty-five years ago today, the Tate Modern first opened its doors to the public. The main attraction: a nine metre-high…

Ministers must now stand up for women’s rights

16 April 2025 11:15 pm

The highest court in the land was set the task of determining: what is a woman? Today it gave its…

Museums need a new approach to restitution 

15 April 2025 12:14 am

Three years ago, the Horniman Museum agreed to return 72 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. The museum’s chair hailed the decision…

Have we reached peak EDI?

13 March 2025 10:26 pm

As the old saying goes, ‘when American sneezes, England catches a cold’. This week, the two major city watchdogs announced…

Labour must learn from Kamala Harris’s transgender muddle

9 November 2024 4:29 am

Donald Trump’s remarkable election victory has been rightly attributed to the long shadow of inflation combined with mass illegal immigration…

There’s nothing ‘offensive’ about Prince Albert’s Memorial

25 July 2024 12:18 am

The Prince Albert Memorial is the latest target of activists seeking to denigrate our past. The Memorial has stood in…

Wes Streeting’s puberty blocker ban makes sense

16 July 2024 4:51 pm

Actions speak louder than words. In one of the first tests of his tenure, the Health Secretary Wes Streeting has…

Will Starmer have the courage to stand up for women’s rights?

26 June 2024 2:16 am

Gender ideology was perhaps the last topic which Labour wanted to be front and centre of the election campaign but…