Why does Labour loathe ordinary people?
The jaw-dropping contempt dripping from the reply suggested by Labour’s sacked health minister Andrew Gwynne to a 72-year-old lady in…
Germany’s immigration election is heating up
These are dramatic days in the usually dull world of German politics. Last Wednesday, midway through a fiercely fought federal…
Should the West be worried about DeepSeek’s ‘Sputnik moment’?
My late mother proudly possessed a curious object: a tea cosy decorated with the image of a Sputnik. In 1957,…
Starmer has much to learn from Trump’s Colombia migrant victory
During Sir Keir Starmer’s first phone call with Donald Trump since the President’s inauguration, the two leaders discussed the ceasefire…
How Unity Mitford seduced Hitler
The Daily Mail has got a world exclusive on its hands. In great excitement it is publishing the secret diary…
Will the AfD’s deportation pledge win over German voters?
Next month’s German federal election on 23 February revolves around the disputed meaning of a single toxic word: ‘remigration’. Until…
Could Farage’s autocratic streak wreck Reform?
Ten Reform party councillors in Derbyshire have resigned in protest at Nigel Farage’s ‘autocratic’ control of the rising party and…
Elon Musk’s AfD article has rocked German politics
Fresh from explosively disrupting the politics of the US and Britain, Elon Musk has now turned his attention to Germany.…
Have Syria’s rebels really reformed?
There were two scenes from Syria last night screened by the BBC and Channel 4 News that should give the…
Will Syria’s new rulers show mercy?
The late Henry Kissinger said of the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s that it was a shame that both sides…
John Prescott was the embodiment of old Labour
The death of Labour’s former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott at the age of 86 also marks the passing of…
Austria’s far right is shut out of power, again
Austria’s mainstream politicians are combining to ensure that the winners of last month’s general elections, the far right Freedom party…
The fatal allure of Hitler’s favourite mountain
‘The hills are alive,’ warbled Julie Andrews as she strode through a verdant Alpine mountain meadow, ‘with the sound of…
Starmer’s first 100 days could not have gone worse
Labour marks 100 days in power tomorrow, but there is precious little for Keir Starmer to celebrate. It is a…
Was Abraham Lincoln gay?
Given the idolatry with which Americans worship the man widely seen as their greatest president, Abraham Lincoln, and the obsessive…
Why the hard-right triumphed in Austria
The general elections in Austria have delivered a sensational result, with the hard right, pro-Putin Freedom party (FPO) coming out…
Why should we listen to John Major?
Sir John Major has been sounding off. Again. The former Tory prime minister criticised his party’s Rwanda asylum plan as…
Is Austria’s far-right Freedom Party heading for victory?
Amidst all the focus on the triumph of Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in Thuringia’s local state elections earlier this month,…
How long will Germany’s anti-AfD ‘firewall’ last?
Berlin awoke this morning in a state of shock. Although opinion polls had predicted that the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)…
Britain has a long history of authoritarianism
If Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is seriously intending to crack down on ‘hateful and harmful opinions’ – as she has promised to…
Did the Prime Minister have an affair with a woman half his age?
As a connoisseur of British political scandals I have long puzzled over one of the most intriguing of all such…
How could Hitler have had so many willing henchmen?
Richard J. Evans tackles one of the Third Reich’s great mysteries. Why did so many apparently ‘normal’ Germans end up as perpetrators of mass atrocities?
The trouble with ‘spy swaps’
Yesterday’s exchange of prisoners at Ankara airport in Turkey will have been personally ordered by President Putin. He is a…
Why the Bolivia coup failed
Latin America has long been the traditional home of the military coup – or ‘golpe’ in Spanish – so the…
Labour purges are nothing new
Sir Keir Starmer’s determination to prove to voters that Labour has changed, by purging the party’s far left, may look…