World

Will Australia finally take anti-Semitism seriously?

19 December 2025 7:56 pm

After four days of looking like a rabbit in the headlights, embattled Australian prime minister, Labor’s Anthony Albanese, finally started…

Why misogyny lessons for schoolboys will backfire

19 December 2025 6:03 pm

All parents and teachers of teenagers will know two things. The first is that teenagers are the human equivalent of…

Europe has left Ukraine living on borrowed time

19 December 2025 5:34 pm

Russia started the war on Ukraine, so Russia should pay for the damage it has wrought. Such was Volodymyr Zelensky’s…

The fiscal case for mass migration is being demolished

19 December 2025 4:00 pm

Perhaps because it’s the week before Christmas, the Migration Advisory Committee’s (MAC) latest annual report has attracted little attention. Many…

Trump healthcare

Trump should replace Obamacare with personal accounts

19 December 2025 6:50 am

President Donald Trump has reopened the healthcare debate with a mix of ideas that do not align. He has pledged…

Starmer should pick a UN ambassador who knows Trump

19 December 2025 6:49 am

After three months of speculation, Keir Starmer has appointed a replacement for Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington. The winner…

Keir Starmer just declared war on the lobby

19 December 2025 5:50 am

This evening, Downing Street has announced a major overhaul of the ‘lobby’ briefing system. Currently, accredited political reporters are invited…

Kemi Badenoch is right to call for more defence spending

19 December 2025 4:28 am

Kemi Badenoch has announced a series of commitments on defence spending that she would implement if she were to become…

Donald Trump

How Donald Trump could serve a third term

19 December 2025 4:15 am

The 22nd Amendment leaves open several possible ways a two-term president could serve all or part of a third term…

What the word ‘intifada’ really means

19 December 2025 1:50 am

Finally the left is showing an interest in freedom of speech. And all it took was a police clampdown on…

Despite the rate cut, inflation remains a danger

18 December 2025 11:23 pm

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has just voted to cut interest rates to 3.75 per cent and…

Melania

Watch: First Lady releases trailer for MELANIA

18 December 2025 11:01 pm

“Here ve go again” says Melania Trump to the camera at the start of the new trailer for MELANIA – a feature documentary…

Bats are paying the ultimate price for our wind turbine obsession

18 December 2025 10:47 pm

The 11,000 wind turbines in the UK are not only an eyesore, they are also a killer. Their blades can…

How to really save the BBC

18 December 2025 10:45 pm

Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC has accidentally done Britain a favour. One ‘fake news’ moment involving the…

Why did scientists think the Beachy Head Lady was African?

18 December 2025 10:15 pm

A human skeleton found in a box in the basement of Eastbourne town hall in 2012, has, not for the…

Why should British taxpayers fund students’ European Erasmus jollies?

18 December 2025 4:45 pm

Half a billion pounds of taxpayers’ money will be spent on rejoining the EU’s Erasmus+ student exchange programme. With libraries…

The police crackdown on ‘globalise the intifada’ chants is too little, too late

18 December 2025 4:30 pm

Protesters chanting ‘globalise the intifada’ will now be arrested, according to the heads of Greater Manchester Police and the Metropolitan…

Trump

Trump’s firehose of MAGA rhetoric

18 December 2025 2:23 pm

Rumors flew around like great, big beautiful birds ahead of President Trump’s address to the nation tonight. Was he going…

Trump

Trump’s firehose of MAGA rhetoric

18 December 2025 2:23 pm

Rumors flew around like great, big beautiful birds ahead of President Trump’s address to the nation tonight. Was he going…

trump 2025 achievements

Trump reels off 2025 achievements in White House address

18 December 2025 2:00 pm

As a mighty US armada bobs in the Caribbean off the shores of Venezuela, President Trump just addressed the nation…

Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson: will cowardly Europe betray Ukraine again?

18 December 2025 8:19 am

Boris Johnson has urged European leaders to hand $247 billion of frozen Russian central bank assets to Ukraine – but…

An unhappy Christmas PMQs for Keir Starmer

18 December 2025 3:32 am

Thank God! Today was the last Prime Minister’s Questions before Christmas and so Sir Keir and Mrs Badenoch began their…

Badenoch – and Starmer – should work on their PMQs jokes

18 December 2025 12:55 am

Kemi Badenoch and Keir Starmer conformed to time-honoured tradition today at Prime Minister’s Questions by producing lots of jokes that…

European leaders have changed their tune on war

18 December 2025 12:53 am

Ten days after Thanksgiving, news watchers were exposed to one of the more culturally incongruous images in recent history: Ukrainian…

The yearly flu crisis is entirely avoidable

17 December 2025 11:54 pm

Each winter our NHS is struck by an ‘unprecedented’ number of cases of seasonal illness. Politicians talk gravely of the…