World

Whatever happens, Iran will still seek a nuclear weapon

20 June 2025 9:53 pm

An Iranian politician sits on a sofa giving an interview about Iran’s nuclear ambitions. “Why should Iran not have a…

It’s time to bid adieu to Obamacare

20 June 2025 7:00 pm

Fifteen years ago, when Congress enacted the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare), Vice President Biden,…

Has Ursula von der Leyen seen the light on China?

20 June 2025 5:01 pm

Coming from an American politician, the accusations would have been unsurprising. Beijing is unwilling to ‘live within the constraints of…

Is Iran about to choke the West’s energy supply?

20 June 2025 4:22 pm

Nato has learned nothing from Russia’s energy blackmail – and Iran is about to prove it. With precision warheads and…

Why Muslim-majority countries have turned against Iran

20 June 2025 4:00 pm

Swift condemnations have poured in from the Muslim world castigating Israel for bombing Iran. The UAE condemned Israel ‘in the strongest terms’,…

The triumph of Noel Edmonds

20 June 2025 3:45 pm

When Deal or No Deal hit our TV screens in 2005, it soon became a national obsession. I remember hotfooting it…

Labour whip resigns over disability benefit cuts

20 June 2025 7:28 am

This evening, the Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft has resigned as a government whip over the disability benefit cuts. In a…

The Tucker Carlson & Ted Cruz roast

20 June 2025 4:56 am

Tucker Carlson teased an upcoming podcast with Senator Ted Cruz Tuesday night by posting a short, fiery clip from the…

Poll: public want care home opt out for assisted dying

20 June 2025 4:25 am

It’s a big day in parliament tomorrow. Both sides of the assisted dying debate are gearing up for a crunch…

Watch: SNP housing secretary slips up on social housing

20 June 2025 3:59 am

SNP MSP Mairi McAllan appears to be rated rather highly by First Minister John Swinney, who created an entirely new…

Only regime change will solve the problem of Iran

20 June 2025 2:32 am

The Middle East currently stands at a crossroads. The future geopolitical balance and perhaps also the historical direction of the…

JK Rowling blasts the National as ‘anti-women’

20 June 2025 1:58 am

Scotland’s self-identifying ‘newspaper’ is at it again – and this time it has provoked the wrath of renowned writer JK…

The understudied importance of political slogans

20 June 2025 12:05 am

‘Make America Great Again’. ‘Take Back Control’. ‘Yes We Can’. There are many political slogans – but only a handful…

NSPCC refuses to apologise to Braverman over grooming gangs letter

19 June 2025 10:52 pm

Baroness Casey’s landmark review into Britain’s grooming gangs contained some truly horrific revelations. The damning audit found that disproportionate numbers…

Why the Bank of England may welcome job losses

19 June 2025 10:20 pm

Interest rates have been held at 4.25 per cent. The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted by six…

Obama has traded credibility for Netflix contracts

19 June 2025 9:13 pm

Barack Obama has reemerged, stepping back into the national conversation with all the gravitas of a tenured Ivy League professor…

Three simple ways to stamp out benefits fraud

19 June 2025 9:12 pm

According to official figures from the Department for Work and Pensions, benefits fraud costs the taxpayer £9.5 billion a year.…

Striking Fordow will not solve the Iran problem

19 June 2025 9:06 pm

The world is watching Donald Trump to see if he will give his military the green light to use one…

Your pension fund is right to flee Labour’s Britain

19 June 2025 9:01 pm

One of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s few big ideas for boosting growth was to persuade pension funds to invest more of…

Have Iran’s kamikaze drones become redundant?

19 June 2025 6:09 pm

Over the last decade Iran has built up an impressive arsenal of kamikaze drones which can slam into targets more…

Will Trump pull the trigger and strike Iran?

19 June 2025 5:59 pm

This morning’s sirens shattered the early calm across much of Israel. Quiet anticipation had already been building, as signs pointed…

The danger of the fatwa against Gabriel Attal

19 June 2025 4:39 pm

An imam at the Grand Mosque of Massy, just outside Paris, has threatened to issue a fatwa against former Prime…

What is Britain doing to help free Aung San Suu Kyi?

19 June 2025 4:00 pm

In a prison cell in the middle of Myanmar (Burma), isolated from other prisoners, sits an elderly woman who marks…

Farage: Scrap the fracking ban and bomb Iran

19 June 2025 4:03 am

Would a Reform government lift the ban on fracking? ‘Abso-bloody-lutely,’ is Nigel Farage’s answer. Fracking and nuclear will form the…

The Islamic Republic has been weakening for months

19 June 2025 2:28 am

In October 2023, the mullahs of the Islamic Republic could look within Iran’s borders, and beyond, and be content with…