World
Don’t mourn the death of TV
The online American right is positively obsessed with the nineties. It’s easy to establish the cause here: a surfeit of…
What do Iranians want?
I was born in Gorgan, Iran, ten years after the Islamic Revolution, and for the first 21 years of my…
Watch: Tory MP attacks Kemi in parliament
Oh dear. While Labour rips itself apart on welfare, it seems that one Tory MP is determined to get the…
Why has a leak inquiry been launched into Hermer’s legal advice?
I have now been told by four people in government that a leak inquiry is being conducted into the revelations…
We must reclaim the word ‘progressive’
I’ve grown tired of hearing the term progressive used to describe people and policies that embody anything but progress. The…
Can Keir Starmer save his Welfare Bill?
The Prime Minister has never been a huge fan of the press. But there is an apt Fleet Street phrase…
Our benefits system isn’t helping people with mental health problems
There are moments in politics when you have to say something people won’t want to hear. This is one of…
Is your private school dumbing down?
Bankruptcy, as Ernest Hemingway famously said, comes ‘gradually, then suddenly’. For Britain’s private schools floundering in the wake of the…
Labour’s welfare rebels will regret their revolt
A Labour government facing a rebellion over welfare reform is something of a dog-bites-man story – Labour never finds this…
Why does Starmer want to grow Britain’s nuclear arsenal?
The government published its National Security Strategy 2025 earlier this week, a strange pushmi-pullyu document building on some policy reviews…
Spain won’t escape Trump’s wrath for its Nato rebellion
At yesterday’s Nato summit in The Hague, all but one of the 32 leaders agreed to increase their defence spending…
For Trump, solving Ukraine won’t be as easy as Iran
For the moment, at least, the world seems to be going Donald Trump’s way. Instead of setting the Middle East…
Who won the 12-day war?
As the dust settles from the United States and Israel’s sweeping strikes on the Islamic Republic regime’s nuclear infrastructure, a…
Mahmoud Khalil is living the American dream
With Iran’s nuclear sites “obliterated” and the 12 DAY WAR in the rear-view, the Trump administration can now turn attention…
Wonks team up to ‘Fix Britain’
It is a year ago next week that Labour won the general election. ‘The adults are back in the room!’…
Call him Daddy
Sitting next to Donald Trump at the end of a short NATO summit, Mark Rutte, head of the organization, looked…
Rachel Reeves looks increasingly petrified
Sir Keir Starmer was in the Hague. I know, I know, you’d have thought they would have done Blair first.…
Starmer stands by his welfare bill
Keir Starmer is in the Netherlands to attend the Nato summit – but that is not the subject which is…
Zohran Mamdani’s New York: prostitution, crime and socialism
Zohran Mamdani’s surprise win in the race to be the next mayor of New York City is not just a…
Zohran Mamdani and the Hipster Intifada
I see Generation Intifada has a new hero. Those rich white kids who never leave the house without their keffiyeh…
Angela Rayner had a bad PMQs
With Keir Starmer at Nato, the hospital pass of this week’s PMQs was handed instead to Angela Rayner. The welfare…
Mark Rutte is right to suck up to ‘daddy’ Donald Trump
Mark Rutte, the Nato secretary-general, has two jobs. The first is to lead the 32-member alliance at a time of…
A short ****ing history of presidential swearing
On Tuesday, President Trump dropped a bomb – not a bunker-buster but the F-bomb. Talking to the press about Israel…
Starmer may regret bringing forward Trump’s state visit
One of the most notable features of Keir Starmer’s otherwise undistinguished premiership is the bromance that he seems to have…
Former Scottish Tory MP jumps ship to Reform
Oh dear. It’s not been a good year for the Scottish Conservatives, who have seen multiple councillors defect to Reform…
