World
It isn’t right-wing to worry about our falling birthrates
Births in the United Kingdom are halving every 55 years. While headlines still focus on overpopulation – driven by urban…
The tyranny of GCSEs
Deep within the workings of an electric motor lies a split-ring commutator. It reverses the current flowing through the coil…
How to save the Church of England
The Church of England’s various travails and dilemmas – on controversial issues, like sexuality and safeguarding – are on one…
Why Iran wants a deal with Trump
For Iran, the re-election of Donald Trump in November 2024 was its worst nightmare. Waking up the morning after the…
Why did the Met arrest a Jewish man for mocking Hezbollah?
It’s the 21st century and Jews are being arrested for making fun of fascists. The Telegraph has revealed that last…
The optimism of younger countries
There’s a strange, near-psychedelic effect that hits you when you travel from an aging country to a young one. It’s…
Britain has wronged the Chagossians again
I could not resist rushing to the High Court to witness the eleventh-hour challenge to the deal to give away…
Why ‘woke’ is now just a right-wing fetish
There’s been a late entry in the competition for most cretinous misunderstanding of international trade policy. For anyone who’s been…
Israel is at risk of becoming a global pariah
For years, Israel has been compared – sometimes unjustly – to South Africa. This comparison stems from the concept of…
How to stop secondary schools becoming misery traps
‘Transition’ is a word much bandied about in education circles. No, this is not about gender. Rather, when school staff…
France is waking up to the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood
Emmanuel Macron assembled some of his top ministers at the Élysée on Wednesday. Their purpose was to devise a strategy…
Brussels is dropping a bureaucratic bombshell on Europe
Brussels makes one thing better than anywhere else: regulation. Reporting duties, due diligence checks, ESG disclosures, and endless frameworks for…
Illegal gold mining is blighting Peru
It was gold that brought the Spanish conquistadors to Peru in the 1500s. More than 500 years on and the…
In defence of seagulls
We Brits used to rub along pretty well with seagulls. Their distinctive call conjured memories of happy days out at…
Great football writers are different
Brian Glanville, who died this week at the age of 93, was a unique voice in the crowded and often hysterical field of football…
DoGE should make ending the opioid crisis its legacy
As President Donald Trump trots the globe shopping for a new Air Force One and takes long-distance phone calls in…
Katharine Birbalsingh is right about our worship of victimhood
One of the main accusations levelled at the trans movement is that the tidal wave of youngsters claiming to be…
Putin orders new offensive
‘You want a ceasefire? I want your death,’ said Russia’s chief propagandist Vladimir Soloviev during prime time television, the camera…
Britain is enjoying another Brexit dividend
Has there ever been a day when Brexit seemed such a good idea? The story of Brexit began to change…
Kim Jong Un is mad about a boat
Kim Jong Un is not a happy man. Only a month after he unveiled North Korea’s first 5,000-ton destroyer, another…
The EU could pay a high price for not settling with Trump
The deals have been settled. The exceptions have been made. And supply chains have started to return to normal, while…
CNN can’t kill Tim Dillon
“I’ve been researching comedy,” CNN’s Elle Reeve announces grimly at the start of her hour-long interview with comedian Tim Dillon,…
Israel should not listen to Keir Starmer
Benjamin Netanyahu should not be Prime Minister of Israel. It is a stain on Israel’s political system that after the…
Kevin Spacey’s #MeToo revenge
In the 1950s, witch hunts were stoked by pamphlets identifying supposed communists in the media. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo fell victim…
Labour MP backs Lowe’s calls to free Lucy Connolly
The case of Lucy Connolly, the wife of a Tory councillor who was jailed over an offensive tweet, has sparked…
