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Britain’s mental health crisis isn’t what you think

12 July 2025 12:30 am

Britain has a widespread and collective mental health problem – but it’s not what you might think. Specifically, it’s that…

The hypocrisy of those attacking Moygashel’s migrant bonfire

11 July 2025 11:55 pm

The marching season – when a section of Northern Ireland’s unionist community take to the streets to commemorate the triumph…

We’ll all pay for Ed Miliband’s zonal pricing folly

11 July 2025 11:00 pm

Philosophers have debated the concept of ‘fairness’ for centuries. Intellectual heavyweights like Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, and Aristotle have all…

Who’s telling the truth: Unite or Rayner?

11 July 2025 10:41 pm

Some big news in Labour land today. Angela Rayner, the party’s deputy leader, has had her membership of Unite suspended…

Rachel Reeves’s GDP hypocrisy

11 July 2025 10:35 pm

Well, well, well. Today the Office for National Statistics released its estimate for May’s GDP. It showed a contraction of…

Is Britain an ally or an enemy of Israel?

11 July 2025 10:25 pm

Even as the British parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) published its stark warning yesterday that the Islamic Republic of…

Unite suspends Rayner over Birmingham bin strikes

11 July 2025 10:15 pm

Uh oh. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has been suspended by Unite the Union over the Birmingham bin strike –…

On holiday with Goya

11 July 2025 10:13 pm

When I’m first invited to a sojourn in Madrid to learn about the life and work of Francisco Goya and…

South Korea’s pensioner time bomb is about to go off

11 July 2025 9:25 pm

Think of South Korea and K-pop, Korean cuisine, films, and perhaps even skincare products spring to mind. The fact that…

A trio of scandals

11 July 2025 9:20 pm

“Who will guard the guardians?” That question, posed two millennia ago by the Roman poet, Juvenal, is just as relevant today. It recurs every time we learn of a…

Starmer’s migrant deal is just a sticking plaster

11 July 2025 9:01 pm

As French President Emmanuel Macron visited Britain this week for the first French state visit in over a decade, a…

Francesca Albanese is insufferable, but don’t sanction her

11 July 2025 8:36 pm

Among the many peripheral hangers-on at the UN, are members of a curious class of functionary known as special rapporteurs.…

Britain must wake up to the threat of Iran

11 July 2025 7:12 pm

The Islamic Republic of Iran is a ‘wide-ranging, persistent and unpredictable’ threat to the United Kingdom. That was the sobering…

Barron Trump, the enigmatic crypto scion

11 July 2025 7:00 pm

Every morning, a swarm of black SUVs deliver a 6’7″ freshman to classes at NYU’s Stern School of Business. The journey from…

Tax rises are inevitable

11 July 2025 6:07 pm

The string of bleak economic updates continues. First we had the dire report by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)…

What Richard Hermer gets wrong about international law

11 July 2025 5:46 pm

Our two-tier Attorney General, Lord Richard Hermer, is in the news again. The controversial lawyer and ‘old friend’ of the…

Every boy needs a strong male role model in their life

11 July 2025 4:59 pm

Imagine you are the parent of a primary-school aged boy. Outside of family, how many men do you think your…

Israel’s Sophie’s Choice

11 July 2025 4:45 pm

As pressure intensifies on Israel to agree to a ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza, the country faces a…

Streeting only has himself to blame for striking doctors

11 July 2025 4:25 pm

Just what was Wes Streeting expecting when, shortly after becoming health secretary last July, he offered junior doctors (who now…

Why Northern Ireland hates Paddington

11 July 2025 3:30 pm

Soaring crime and a growing air of discontent means that few Brits are happy about the state of their nation.…

Who is Biden’s doctor protecting?

11 July 2025 6:15 am

When Joe Biden’s personal physician, Kevin O’Connor, pleaded the Fifth Amendment yesterday during the ongoing Congressional hearings about Biden’s mental…

Starmer announces ‘one in, one out’ migrant deal

11 July 2025 3:59 am

After days of intense discussions and slightly-less-intense boozy dinners, Keir Starmer has struck a ‘one in, one out’ migration deal…

Starmer and Macron won’t fix the Channel migrant crisis

11 July 2025 3:37 am

There was a sense of déjà vu to today’s announcement by Keir Starmer that he intends to ‘secure’ Britain’s borders.…

The intense and consuming stupidity of George Monbiot

11 July 2025 2:10 am

Chauve souris de la lune There is an intense and consuming stupidity within almost everything George Monbiot writes, the lumpen…

Biden’s doctor embarrasses the profession

11 July 2025 12:38 am

In 2006, freelance journalist Josh Wolf spent 226 days in a federal prison. His crime? Refusing to turn over unpublished…