Is it too much to expect the Home Secretary to obey the law?
As Home Secretary, on the whole, you’ll want to stay on the right side of the law, right? I mean, you’re in charge of the…
It’s not too late for footballers to boycott Qatar’s World Cup
If you go to Fifa’s website, you’ll find all sorts of things to make your heart sing and tears spring…
Even Rishi Sunak can't save the Tories
Once again, 357-odd Conservative MPs have complete control over what happens next in this country. There are three questions that…
Can you feel sorry for Liz Truss?
It is not easy to feel sorry for Liz Truss. She has a deeply unattractive streak of vanity – when…
A baby boom won’t solve Britain’s labour shortage
Quite the scoop in yesterday’s Sun. An anonymous cabinet minister has briefed the paper that to secure Britain’s economic future,…
Liz Truss's cliché-ridden speech was saved by Greenpeace
Liz Truss has, if nothing else, been working on her delivery. Her first speech to conference as Prime Minister was…
What’s so funny about Elon Musk?
At the end of last week, at an AI event in California, Elon Musk unveiled his latest project: a humanoid…
What does it mean when Giorgia Meloni quotes G.K. Chesterton?
Is it fascist or anti-fascist to quote G.K. Chesterton, or neither?
In praise of the speeding crackdown
We all needed a laugh, what with the pound tanking and inflation running away, my old pal Kwasi delivering a…
The midlife crisis spread: why are the affluent so depressed?
‘You are here’, as those signs in windswept carparks unhelpfully point out. Yup. No mistaking it, you will tend to…
Charles III will reign in an age where feeling trumps duty
Charles III will reign in an age where feeling trumps duty
I’ve become a war addict
It is an almost unquestioned orthodoxy that war is hell, and that every needless death in a needless war diminishes…
Is Liz Truss a Tory Jeremy Corbyn?
Many years ago, when the earth was young and leaving the European Union was a position espoused only by those…
We still love our failing NHS
A new poll about the NHS, the Sunday Times tells us, has discovered ‘a decline in support’ for the National…
Sanna Marin and the rise of fake controversy
With an honourable exception for the Beastie Boys, I can’t stand the use of ‘party’ as a verb. It immediately…
Salman Rushdie and the incitement of violence
When I met Salman Rushdie in New York a couple of years ago, he told me that the days in…
Our long, vulnerable childhoods may be the key to our success
Could our long journey to adulthood actually be the key to our success, wonders Sam Leith
Does the Met have a racism problem?
Back in the winter of 2012, a postal worker named Zac Sharif-Ali was taking a lunchtime stroll with his dog…
Should Apple snoop on your iPhone?
Should Apple use software to scan the photo library of every individual iPhone in search of images of child abuse?…
Is technology killing nostalgia?
Making memories is different in the digital age
The curse of ‘deadmin’
George Monbiot has gone to war. Some readers may know this fellow by his nickname ‘Moonbat’ – he’s a Guardian…
The latest Tory leadership debate was a grim spectacle
The eyes had it, in last night’s leadership debate. Penny Mordaunt and Rishi Sunak took turns directing to the camera…
The fatuous idea that politicians must be ‘in touch’
I was in Hyde Park on Friday watching an open-air Pixies show with very great delight when somewhere between ‘Vamos’…
Nick Bostrom: How can we be certain a machine isn’t conscious?
Philosopher Nick Bostrom on the AI threat
The past stinks
‘Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could,’ says Jeff Goldblum’s character in Jurassic Park, ‘they didn’t stop to…
