World
These tariffs aren’t just about Greenland
During his visit to Washington, DC, on Wednesday, the Danish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said that he had a…
British people still hate the nanny state
In recent years a popular assumption has arisen in Britain that we are a nation of ‘curtain twitchers’ with an…
Trump slaps Britain with tariffs over Greenland
Donald Trump has announced that he will impose tariffs on goods from the UK, Denmark and other European countries. The…
Badenoch backs Starmer on Greenland
Leave it to Donald Trump to knock Robert Jenrick off the news cycle. The US President has not taken too…
Andy Burnham joins Hillsborough revolt
Can Keir Starmer get anything right? Just days after yet another U-turn on digital ID, it now seems that his…
What does loyalty mean in politics?
For David Cameron, there were two types of politician. Team players. Or tossers. Although he preferred a slightly saltier description…
Malcolm Offord must improve
The biggest beneficiary of Robert Jenrick’s defenestration and defection was neither Kemi Badenoch nor Nigel Farage but Malcolm Offord. He…
Why was the West Midlands Police chief allowed to retire?
Even as he resigned, Craig Guildford couldn’t do the decent thing. Perhaps that’s no surprise. We have learned in recent…
Cubans want Donald Trump to save them
The US capture of Nicholas Maduro sent a shockwave of fear through the regime in Havana. Heeding the words of…
Why England’s Ashes defeat is so painful
England’s most successful Ashes series Down Under for 15 years has somehow come to be seen as its most calamitous.…
Marine Le Pen is unstoppable
Marine Le Pen returned to court this week to contest her conviction last spring for misusing EU funds. Convicted of…
The London property market might be about to implode
First off, let me say: I’m a London property owner. It’s a pretty little flat, in a pleasant corner of…
Amid the bombs, life in Kyiv carries on as normal
How do you convey the oddness of Kyiv during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? The reality of living under the constant…
Child gangs are menacing Europe
Criminal networks are recruiting and tasking minors as paid operatives for shootings, bombings and contract killings. Europol, the law enforcement…
Now the cabinet guns for Wes Streeting
Oh dear. With the right in civil war, Keir Starmer might have thought his week was ending on a high,…
Jenrick’s defection strengthens both Kemi and Farage
What a week. Robert Jenrick’s defection to Reform yesterday electrified Westminster and the fallout is still spreading. When our editor asked…
Why are the number of abortions so high?
Consider this: at a time when we’re agonising about the demographic winter and the unwillingness of Gen Z to procreate,…
West Mids police chief bows out (finally)
Congratulations to Craig Guildford who has finally realised whatever else knew two days ago. The disgraced West Midlands Police chief…
Is Steve Bannon right about Jordan Bardella?
Marine Le Pen returned to a court in Paris on Tuesday as her appeal began against her five-year ban from…
The truth about the surge in home-schooling
Historically, home-schooling has been seen as a niche or eccentric choice of education: an option only really considered by hippies,…
Putting Yoon Suk Yeol on trial won’t unify South Korea
Think of the death penalty and North Korea’s executions of individuals convicted of so-called ‘anti-state crimes’ may spring to mind.…
London is finally about to show its support for a free Iran
Over the years, on the streets of London, I have heard so much praise for the Iranian regime and its…
Is Robert Jenrick really welcome in Reform?
Robert Jenrick isn’t often compared to Groucho Marx, but there’s something apposite about the latter’s line, ‘I don’t want to…
London is wild – and no longer in a good way
London is the focus of the world as since no time since the Swinging Sixties. Personally, I find it rather…
Iran’s regime is failing at home. Prepare for it to export its revolution abroad
The mullahs are learning – again – that one can beat a crowd, but not indefinitely beat a people. A…
