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Trump has no appetite for a second-term war
Now more than ever, Donald Trump appears to be channeling his inner Lord Palmerston. It was the 19th-century prime minister,…
Trump turns on Netanyahu after securing US hostage release
As the military helicopter carrying Edan Alexander – the last remaining American hostage held by Hamas – landed on top…
Poll: college-educated women end friendships over politics
New polling data shows what you may already suspect: your experience of losing friends since the 2024 election of Donald…
Homosexuality will be illegal in Disney’s new UAE park
One month after Kristallnacht, in 1938, the Nazi film director Leni Riefenstahl was an honored guest at Walt Disney’s studio.…
Peter Sullivan should never have been in prison
Peter Sullivan, a man of ‘limited intellectual capacity’ and ‘suggestibility’, has been exonerated after spending 38 years in jail for…
What Starmer’s immigration critics don’t get
Keir Starmer has finally realised that he needs to tackle rising immigration. The Prime Minister said yesterday that Britain risks…
Will the Beeb sack Lineker over his pro-Palestine post?
Will Gary Lineker ever learn? As if the BBC Sports pundit hadn’t caused enough controversy, now the left-wing centre forward…
Tory MP charged with sexual assault
It is less than a fortnight since the Runcorn by-election, caused by the resignation of Mike Amesbury for punching a…
NHS ‘spy scales’ won’t tackle childhood obesity
NHS England, ostensibly wishing to respond to the challenge of childhood obesity, announced yesterday the introduction of ‘spy scales’ to…
Trump and Netanyahu go their separate ways
The release of Edan Alexander, the last living American-Israeli hostage held by Hamas, was a moment of profound relief for…
What can we really expect from the US-Iran talks?
This weekend in Muscat, US and Iranian diplomats held a fourth round of talks, continuing their efforts to find a…
How to get Gen Z to fight for Britain
It is easy to despair of young people as self-absorbed, isolated from reality and unwilling to take on the hard…
Brits now most concerned about borders since Brexit
On Monday Prime Minister Keir Starmer made his big immigration speech in which he warned that without tightening rules the…
Can France dismantle the NGO-migrant complex?
France’s interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, and his party Les Républicains (LR) are moving to end the decades-long monopoly on providing legal…
Trump’s trade war is driving Russia further into China’s arms
Trade between Russia and China is no longer booming as it was immediately after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine three…
When will the EU do a deal with Trump?
China has wrapped up a pretty good trade deal. The UK has managed to agree to lift some of the…
Trump is treating Israel like a nettlesome supplicant
When Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the first foreign leaders to congratulate him were Israeli officials. Now, as he…
Reeves’s jobs tax is beginning to bite
Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the UK unemployment rate has risen to 4.5 per…
Man arrested after fires at Starmer’s home
After it emerged on Monday afternoon that the Metropolitan Police were probing a fire that had broken out at Sir…
Why has the BBC’s gay dating show got a trans contestant?
‘The UK’s first ever gay dating show is louder, prouder, and more irresistible than ever,’ says the BBC about I Kissed…
What exactly is the point of Starmer’s EU defence pact?
Sir Keir Starmer’s cherished agreement on defence with the European Union seems to have been high on the diplomatic agenda…
What the kids get right about the assisted dying bill
The brothers Grimm knew that it sometimes takes a child to call out what grown-ups think but dare not say.…
Ukrainians are giving up hope
I am a 37-year-old Ukrainian woman, and have recently returned from Odesa, where I was born and grew up, and…
Could the first American Pope be an America First Pope?
“We do not need loud, forceful communication,” said Pope Leo XIV, the Chicago-born American prelate Robert Prevost – at his first press conference on Monday, “but…
How Zelensky is calling Putin’s bluff
As the war between Russia and Ukraine continues on the battlefield, global leaders are waging their own campaigns through diplomacy,…
