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This ceasefire hasn’t ended the war

8 April 2026 5:44 pm

As Donald Trump’s 8 p.m. deadline crept closer by the minute, accompanied by increasingly furious posts from the president online,…

Why are our universities dumbing down?

8 April 2026 4:28 pm

It’s strange and ironic that higher education establishments in Britain, institutions which ostensibly exist to broaden minds and deepen thought,…

Why Trump stepped back from the brink

8 April 2026 4:22 pm

At 5 p.m. Washington time, speculation was rife that a deal between the United States and Iran was in the…

Is it any wonder people don’t send letters?

8 April 2026 3:12 pm

Was there some failure of communication, do you think, when the Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky bought Royal Mail (with the…

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What will the Iran ceasefire cost Trump?

8 April 2026 1:19 pm

Might Donald Trump travel to Tehran this spring to open an American embassy and declare that he’s fallen in love with the new…

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Why Trump is tempting 25th Amendment talk

8 April 2026 6:58 am

During his remarks in Budapest, Vice President J.D. Vance, who is trying prop up Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as he runs for reelection, appeared to think the unthinkable.…

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Why Iran thinks it’s winning

8 April 2026 3:09 am

President Trump has what he so dearly craves; the attention of the global media and the world hanging on his…

Trump has lost control of his war

8 April 2026 2:59 am

US President Trump has what he so dearly craves – the attention of the global media and the world hanging…

Reform is right to put its foot down over reparations

7 April 2026 11:21 pm

Liberals don’t realise it yet, and perhaps they never will, but Reform has just done them a massive favour. Nigel…

Trump gets Chamberlain wrong

7 April 2026 11:03 pm

Like US wartime presidents before him, Donald Trump made a priority of, and has succeeded, in attaining air superiority over…

The dramatic downfall of an Australian war hero 

7 April 2026 11:02 pm

Australia’s most decorated war hero, Ben Roberts-Smith VC, is a mountain of a man. But today, he has been cut down…

Rory Stewart isn’t taking Islam seriously

7 April 2026 9:28 pm

It’s not often noted that the taboo on discussing racial issues goes both ways. While critics of immigration must often…

Kanye West should be banned from the UK

7 April 2026 9:05 pm

Geert Wilders was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2009. A sitting Dutch MP and leader of the Party…

This is why shoplifting is rife in Britain

7 April 2026 7:07 pm

Walker Smith, 54, who has worked as a store assistant at Waitrose for the past 17 years, has been fired…

The surprising conservativism of the old Doctor Who

7 April 2026 5:53 pm

Before the 1980s, our broadcasters had a terrible habit of throwing their own recordings away to save storage space. Videotapes…

The Green party’s transport plan is pure madness

7 April 2026 5:02 pm

As you may have noticed, we’ve seen rather more wokery than greenery from the Green party since Zack Polanski took…

Trump’s threat to destroy Iran is detailed and credible

7 April 2026 4:57 pm

Monday’s White House press conference came in two distinct parts. The first was an extraordinary tale of heroism in the…

Why junior doctors are back on strike

7 April 2026 4:29 pm

In the emergency department, and on my wards, the strikes sit lightly. My specialty of internal medicine never closes; Easter…

Why Artemis II matters

7 April 2026 4:19 pm

Weren’t those images beamed back from the Artemis II mission something to catch the breath in the throat? If something…

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Who’s the most special envoy?

7 April 2026 12:27 pm

On the final weekend of her tenure as Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem was in South America meeting the President…

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Is the US nuclear bomber base being targeted for a strike?

7 April 2026 11:00 am

A lockdown at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana triggered by a mysterious drone swarm last month didn’t last long.…

What’s behind Britain’s blue badge boom?

7 April 2026 1:04 am

How miraculous. Britain is full of people with devastating afflictions, with millions apparently unable to walk a few yards from…

Only one man could bridge this footballing divide

6 April 2026 11:30 pm

It reminded me a little of that wonderful Christmas Day truce in the first world war, when the two sides…

How to save our churches 

6 April 2026 6:54 pm

Easter is being celebrated by millions of families across our country. It’s one of those moments when we should come…

The Tories should beware the fate of Lloyd George’s Liberals

6 April 2026 4:10 pm

Reform leader Nigel Farage likes to claim that his latest political vehicle is on course to replace the ‘old fuddy…