World
Cameron shines at gay marriage reception
It’s ten years this month since legislation to legalise same-sex marriage was passed by parliament. So what better way to…
NatWest, Farage and the decline of corporate behaviour
The story of NatWest Group’s rogue behaviour goes far deeper than Nigel Farage. It now emerges that many more customers have…
Will the Tories learn from Coutts’ mistake in taking on Nigel Farage?
Not for the first time in his colourful life, the perennial rebel Nigel Farage has the establishment on the run.…
Barbie’s critics are the real snowflakes
Hold on: I thought it was the wimpish new left that loses its rag over ‘offensive’ culture. Aren’t snowflakes usually…
The comfort of drinking at the Hound
In the historic downtown of York, Pennsylvania, near the courthouse where the Articles of Confederation were drafted and a farmers’…
BBC issues another grovelling apology
Sorry doesn’t seem to be the hardest word over at the BBC. The Corporation has had to issue another grovelling apology –…
Sunak will have to water down net zero sooner or later
The Uxbridge by-election has thrown Labour into a civil war, or at least a civil skirmish. Keir Starmer has told…
Just Stop Oil have finally met their match
Have Just Stop Oil finally met their match? The splendidly named counter-organisation ‘Just Stop Pissing People Off’ have pulled off…
Gove rows back on 2030 petrol car ban U-turn
If you U-turn on a U-turn, does that make it an O-turn? That’s the question Mr S is wondering this…
Labour still can’t be trusted on trans rights
Today, Anneliese Dodds, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, has pledged in a Guardian article that ‘Labour will lead on…
Operation Get Trump
Humankind, said T.S. Eliot, cannot bear very much reality. A case in point was the chyron that Fox News posted…
BBC finally apologises to Nigel Farage
Dogs bark, cows moo and the BBC makes a hash of it. After holding out for a week, the Corporation…
Is Ron DeSantis the new Kamala Harris?
What if the problem for Ron DeSantis isn’t that he resembles the spiraling candidacies of the past, but that he’s…
Elon Musk has launched X to kill Twitter
It will trash the brand. It will alienate its core users. And relaunching and rebranding a failing business almost never…
Meet the men who want to bring back the woolly mammoth
A few minutes into celebrated Harvard geneticist Dr. George Church’s appearance on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert motioned towards him conspiratorially.…
The unlikely new kingmakers in Spanish politics
Depending on how you look at the result of yesterday’s general election in Spain, either everyone won or no one…
When will Spain’s political paralysis end?
Sunday’s general election in Spain was supposed to answer the question: will Spain be governed for the next four years…
Artificial Intelligence is the crack cocaine of the digital age
The rise of artificial intelligence may be rescuing the tech oligarchy, but its current trajectory could hasten our steps towards…
Is global warming behind Greece’s wildfires?
Summer wouldn’t be complete without hordes of disgruntled British tourists being evacuated from their hotels, flown home early or spending…
Minister calls in the banks after Farage account closed
It’s a month since the Farage Coutts row blew up and there’s no sign of it calming down any time…
Immigration and a government in a state of post-hypnotic suggestion
Hurrah! The government, it was reported yesterday, is working on getting some more migrants. To plug a million-strong post-Brexit labour shortage in…
Drones strike Moscow in fifth attack since May
For the fifth time in three months, Moscow has once again been targeted by drones. In what is fast becoming…
Targeting Odesa marks a new turn in the war
The world is waking up to pictures of fresh destruction in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, which has been…
Going soft on Net Zero could save Rishi Sunak
The Tory green brigade now tends to be heavily concentrated in the House of Lords, where Zac Goldsmith recently joined…
Could Ulez lead to Sadiq Khan’s downfall?
Emmanuel Macron has spoken of his fear of France’s ‘fragmentation’ and of the nation’s ‘division’ following the riots that reduced…
