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France’s migration hypocrisy
Four migrants drowned in the Channel yesterday when they were swept away by strong currents. The two men and two…
The US hasn’t threatened to bomb the Vatican
The first American pope does not like the President of the United States. One of the few things we knew…
The ONS should not work from home
Our invertebrate government has struck again. Given the chance to show a bit of backbone in the face of demands…
The Pentagon’s holy war with Rome
America is having its Golden Age, Iran is about to get blasted into the Stone Age… and Elbridge Colby wants…
What Trump gets wrong about NATO
The idea that the United States has been swindled by its NATO allies is not new. Robert Gates, in his…
Why are the Greens using the local elections to attack Israel?
In putting an attack on Israel front and centre of his party’s local election launch, you would think Zack Polanski…
Who is lying about the Iran ceasefire?
Somebody is lying about the ceasefire. Iran has insisted that the agreement includes Israel stopping its military action in Lebanon.…
Putin has called Starmer’s shadow fleet bluff
Theodore Roosevelt, the blur of energy who occupied the White House for the first years of the 20th century, famously…
Hungary has become a tired gerontocracy
Hungary in 2026 is what most developed countries were probably on their way to becoming in the 1980s and early…
Keir Starmer’s Gulf trip is a masterclass in delusion
There’s an entire glorious genre of photos that we might tentatively entitle: ‘Keir Starmer standing in front of people who…
The US and Israel have beaten Iran
Anyone who has been following the developments in the Middle East through the eyes of the BBC and Sky News…
This study shatters the trans myth about mental health
‘Better a live daughter than a dead son.’ For years, this brutal phrase was delivered to the parents of gender-confused…
We’re stuck at the worst possible oil price
A ceasefire has been agreed with Iran. The Straits of Hormuz will reopen. And the oil market will get back…
The winners and losers of the Iran ceasefire deal
The abrupt announcement of a two-week ceasefire in the war between the US, Israel and Iran resolves none of the…
There’s no denying the Scottish Greens’ ascendance
A cardinal error in politics is hating your opponents so much you cannot understand them. If you know no one…
Trump’s fantasy of victory
Among the many gifts the Watergate scandal gave us was Nixon’s White House press secretary declaring: “This is the operative…
Is Bitcoin a British invention?
Sir Issac Newton, Alexander Flemming and James Watt may all have to move aside to make way for another name…
The Iran deal has shown Britain’s irrelevance
With Donald Trump’s threat that ‘a whole civilization will die… never to be brought back again’ looming on Tuesday night,…
This ceasefire hasn’t ended the war
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?
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
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?
Was there some failure of communication, do you think, when the Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky bought Royal Mail (with the…
What will the Iran ceasefire cost Trump?
Might Donald Trump travel to Tehran this spring to open an American embassy and declare that he’s fallen in love with the new…
Why Trump is tempting 25th Amendment talk
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.…
Why Iran thinks it’s winning
President Trump has what he so dearly craves; the attention of the global media and the world hanging on his…
