World
Is this the end for Emmanuel Macron?
Prime Minister François Bayrou has recalled parliament for a confidence vote on 8 September, betting he can outmanoeuvre a surging…
Will Donald Trump meet Lucy Connolly?
‘Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care, while you’re…
Where did it all go so wrong for Britain?
If I had to summarise, in a word, the mood of the nation in 2025, I’d probably plump for fraught.…
Macron is blind to the decivilisation of France
For the second time in a week, Emmanuel Macron has been criticised for allowing antisemitism to run riot in France.…
The devastating cost of cashless bail
The President taking such decisive action to save lives this past week is bittersweet beyond words. For years, we begged…
Trump’s Squid Games with South Korean President
“WHAT IS GOING ON IN SOUTH KOREA?” President Trump posted over breakfast. “Seems like a Purge or Revolution. We can’t…
Zohran’s embarrassing scavenger hunt
I still look back fondly on my 10th birthday party – a cute little scavenger hunt through the landmarks of…
Farage, flags and the forgotten English
The flag-raisings in towns and cities across the country are an inevitable consequence of elites’ seeming preference for every flag…
Leave bad manners to the public, not the police
Most people deplore bad behaviour in public and gratuitous breaches of etiquette and manners on trains and buses. Few would…
J.D. Vance: proconsul to Britain?
Vice President J.D. Vance’s family vacation in Britain was disrupted by protesters who insisted that he was not welcome in the country. In the Cotswolds, an area northwest…
Starmer is dodging the real asylum battle
The government is badly rattled on immigration. It knows that its perceived inability either to curb rampant asylum abuses or…
Angela Rayner’s not-so-scandalous ‘third home’
Angela Rayner, it’s reported, has bought a ‘third home’. The three-bedroom seaside flat on the south coast that she has…
What publishing a book has in common with childbirth
‘Are you ready?’ a kind but optimistic friend asked me a few weeks ago with a look of genuine concern.…
The death of a streamer is being used to stifle free speech
One viewer whispered on the livestream: ‘Yes, keep going… Keep going’. Moments later, Jean Pormanove was dead. Last Sunday night…
Why you shouldn’t wait for the ‘right time’ to have children
Fertility rates in Britain are in freefall. The average number of children per woman is now 1.44, the lowest in…
Vegas’s seedy soul will save Sin City
I vividly remember the first time I saw Las Vegas. It was decades ago, and a friend and I did…
Will Trump go to war with the cartels?
President Donald Trump has signed off on a secret directive that, if activated, would let the US military hunt Mexican…
I can’t resist Angela Rayner
Seeing those photographs of Angela Rayner on Hove beach in broad daylight drinking a vast glass of rosé (‘day wine’…
Meloni is winning her war on left-wing squats
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has won what looks like a significant victory in her quest to eradicate squatting. About…
The rise of ‘censory smearing’
Every now and again a new phenomenon emerges in human communication or social behaviour which everyone recognises but none can…
We need right-wing trade unions
Britain is not lacking in trade unions – if anything, they have become one of the country’s few reliable constants.…
The statistic that explains why white working class children do so badly
Another year of GCSE results has prompted another bout of soul searching about the underachievement of white working class pupils.…
The Norman Conquest wasn’t a disaster for England
For a certain kind of amateur historian there is a moment, fixed in the imagination, endlessly revisited: it is still…
The awkward truth about tourists in Paris
As Parisians slowly return from their long summer breaks, locals are beginning to do what they do best: complaining. Montmartre,…
How China fools the West
The mimic octopus is a remarkable creature. It is the world’s master at shapeshifting. It is able to transform its…
