World
Why shouldn’t adults play with toys like Lego?
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child:…
Britain’s Macron moment – and why we should be worried about it
When French president Emmanuel Macron stormed to power in 2017, his ability to respond to the weakness of France’s mainstream…
Why September 1 is the worst day of the year
How are you feeling about the first day of Autumn? If, like me, you get a distant sense of foreboding,…
Boomer hate has gone too far
Charles Murray, whose work on race and IQ has made him something of a darling with the online right, found…
Europe is a paper tiger
“The purpose of NATO,” Lord Hastings Ismay, the alliance’s first secretary general, once quipped, was “to keep the Americans in,…
Mexico seethes over cartels, ‘gringos’ and migrants
ranging from the fate of 130,000 people who have “disappeared” in the country’s drug wars, to discontent over the “gentrification”…
The Good Friday Agreement doesn’t stop Britain quitting the ECHR
It has become an article of faith in some quarters that the UK’s withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights (the…
Who will save Britain from the blight of e-scooters?
A few days ago a pedicab (or rickshaw), decked out in luminous pink, collided with a red London bus in…
Britain can’t win its fight against Big Pharma
Britain has picked a fight with the pharma industry, and it isn’t clear why we think we can win. Not…
Angela Merkel unleashed chaos on Europe
A decade ago today, on 31 August 2015, Angela Merkel made the unilateral decision to open Europe’s borders. The rallying…
America needs its allies
There are ‘great powers’ and other powers. This is a truism of international relations thinking for those who espouse a…
Life isn’t good for everyone in the Cotswolds
On paper, Charlbury is everything the Cotswolds is supposed to be. Stone cottages the colour of anaemic butter. Sash windows…
Students bullied into being woke
If, as Shakespeare observed, “all the world is a stage, and all its men and women merely players,” no place…
Stop the Medicaid ambulance grift
With Congress back in their districts for the August recess, GOP members will undoubtedly be bragging to their base about…
Trump’s tariff war faces its toughest test yet
Trying to work out what is going on with global trade doesn’t get any easier. Just as the world was…
Nicola Sturgeon on J.K. Rowling, Farage and Trump
Last night, Nicola Sturgeon appeared at the Queen Elizabeth Hall to promote her autobiography Frankly. On stage she was questioned by…
How we turned universities into immigration machines
Fifty per cent, or some 560,000, of those admitted to the UK under the student visa system since 2022 remained…
Why a peacekeeping buffer zone in Ukraine won’t work
The 24 hours within which Donald Trump promised to end the war in Ukraine have turned into more than six…
Keir Starmer should call another EU referendum
It can’t be much fun, being Sir Keir Starmer right now. If the people across the country chanting ‘Keir Starmer’s…
Why the English fly their flag
For a Brit in America, flag-flying feels so overdone, almost cultish. Why do Americans fly their flag on houses, lawns,…
Is Taylor Swift’s love life too good to be true?
After years of dating effete Englishmen, Taylor Swift has finally found her man. The singer is engaged to Travis Kelce,…
What is Prince Andrew hiding?
This month marks exactly forty years since I became a literary agent. In that time I have been involved with…
US ‘covert ops’ in Greenland
A crack has developed in the NATO alliance, but surprisingly it has nothing to do with Ukraine. On Wednesday, the…
Is RFK Jr. Trump’s Achilles’ heel?
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s quest to prove himself President Donald Trump’s most destructive Cabinet…
Reform take 15 point-lead over Labour
Party conference begins next week when Reform UK kick off their two-day jamboree in Birmingham. Spirits within Nigel Farage’s party…
