World
The day net zero died
Quietly this afternoon, the government’s last remaining hope of achieving net zero by 2050 drained away. BP has abandoned its…
Prisoners playing video games with their guards is no bad thing
Another week. Another video from within a prison. More words of outrage. This time it’s a video showing a prison…
Richard Hughes quits as OBR chairman
They think it’s all OBR – it is now. Political journalists should always be wary of that word ‘inevitable’. But…
Ireland should venerate Chaim Herzog
The Irish are in many ways the ideal neighbours. They’re quiet, industrious, peaceful, send their best talents to London, and…
OBR probe reveals leak had happened before
Well, well, well. The official review of the leaked Budget documents that circulated last Wednesday ahead of Rachel Reeves’s fiscal…
Keir Starmer’s Budget defence has surely doomed Rachel Reeves
You can always tell someone is in trouble when the Prime Minister calls an emergency press conference. A combined force…
Should the police use facial recognition on children?
Should cops spy on kids? The revelation that police are including surveillance of young people in their expanding use of…
Tulip Siddiq handed two-year sentence in Bangladesh
All is not well in Labour party at present. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has spent the morning defending his Chancellor…
Starmer defends Rachel Reeves over Budget ‘lies’
Much of Rachel Reeves’s Budget was unprecedented: the leaking, the speculation and the OBR accidentally uploading its details an hour…
Why is it taking so long to strip away Andrew’s last title?
As Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor contemplates the wreckage of his public life and career, it would be easy to say that his…
Trump was right to snub Johannesburg’s G20 summit
The rule of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa since 1994 has been marked by a widening chasm between…
Why the prospect of peace in Ukraine is troubling Macron
Emmanuel Macron welcomed Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky to Paris this morning to discuss ‘the conditions for a just and lasting…
Violence is being normalised against the National Rally
Jordan Bardella has been physically attacked twice over the past five days. Flour was thrown over him at an agricultural…
Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform
Another one bites the dust. Now it transpires that the onetime deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Jonathan Gullis, has…
Dublin’s quiet march toward Judenfrei
Dublin’s councillors have seen sense – for now. They were due to vote today on a proposal to rename the…
Pope Leo’s visit to Turkey comes at an uncertain time for the country’s Christians
Pope Leo XIV is visiting Turkey and Lebanon on what is his first trip abroad since being elected in May.…
Your Party’s implosion almost makes me feel sorry for Jeremy Corbyn
I’ll fight you if you contradict my assertion that The Producers is the funniest film ever made. It’s celluloid perfection.…
Cabinet ministers turn on Reeves
Oh dear. It seems that Rachel Reeves’ Sunday media round has done nothing to answer questions about whether she misled…
Zack Polanski is the real winner of the Your Party conference
After two days of discord and division, Your Party has voted and it finally has a name – Your Party.…
Sunday shows round-up: Reeves denies misleading voters before Budget
The Budget is out and, as expected, its measures include the removal of the two-child benefit cap, along with tax…
Reeves’s ‘lying’ denials are only the start
Four days after a Budget is usually the time when it starts to unravel. Some within Labour see it as…
The downfall of Thomas King, Canada’s most influential ‘indigenous’ man
It’s an awkward time in the upper echelons of the Canadian cultural establishment. It’s come to light that influential indigenous…
Inside the mind of Putin’s real negotiator
As Moscow and Washington prepare for talks on the latest version of Trump’s peace plan next week, leaked recordings of…
Anti-Semitism still lurks in the shadows of Christianity
Last year I visited Lincoln for the first time. It’s difficult to resist the elevated beauty and dominant cathedral, but…
The lost world of the British sex comedy
Today, would have been the 80th birthday of the long-forgotten actress named Mary Millington. Blonde, petite and delicately beautiful, she…
