World
America’s troubled theopolitics
The bloody ideological instability of the United States – demonstrated this week by the horrific killing of Charlie Kirk –…
What’s the real reason Spain and Ireland have a problem with Israel?
What do Ireland and Spain have in common? This week, the answer is Jews. On Monday, Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez,…
The Mandelson ‘joke’ fell flat in Washington
Lord Peter Mandelson is to the “Third Way” what Roger Stone is to populism – an alte kameraden from the freewheeling early…
Penalty fares surge after Jenrick Tube stunt
Robert Jenrick has had a good summer. Back in June, the shadow justice secretary caused a social media stir when…
Bolsonaro’s conviction reveals a divided Brazil
Brazil’s former right-wing president Jair Bolsanaro has been sentenced to 27 years in jail after being found guilty by the…
Britain’s growth figures are even worse than they look
Keir Starmer should be thankful for Lord Mandelson. Were it not for scandal over the Mandelson’s connections with Jeffrey Epstein,…
Lords line up against assisted dying
Happy Friday, one and all. It is a big day in the House of Lords as peers gear up to…
Lord Hermer is dangerously wrong about the ECHR
How things change. Five years ago few electors cared about the UK’s membership of the ECHR. Today that same convention,…
After Charlie Kirk, Trump should crack down on campus ‘safetyism’
An assassin who wants to silence a debate in America’s colleges can’t do it just by killing Charlie Kirk. Although…
What is Prince Harry doing in Ukraine?
The Ginger Pimpernel – as the world will probably not be calling the Duke of Sussex – has popped up…
Could Wes Streeting move against Starmer?
Angela Rayner’s failure to get proper tax advice on her house in Hove could be one of those ‘butterfly effect’…
Keir Starmer was a fool to ever tie himself to Peter Mandelson
There is a unique, and bitter, flavour to the corruption of the men of the 1990s. Peter Mandelson – who…
The bloodthirstiness of the left is not new
The savage assassination of Charlie Kirk at a Turning Point rally at Utah Valley University yesterday prompts me to wonder, as I…
Trump leads tributes to Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk’s senseless murder on a Utah college campus yesterday led to an instant and disgusting avalanche of celebration from…
America’s mask of civility slips again
The FBI has just released an image of a “person of interest” in the case of Charlie Kirk’s killing. The Wall…
Mandelson’s ambassadorship exposed Britain’s insularity
Lord Peter Mandelson is to the “Third Way” what Roger Stone is to populism – an alte kameraden from the freewheeling early…
Labour by-election campaign in meltdown
Oh dear. It’s not just in Westminster that Keir Starmer’s party is having trouble. Welsh Labour are also having a…
Kemi Badenoch has a sliver of hope
I can’t remember when I last wrote anything as reckless, but the last week has been a good one for…
Left-wing violence is still being normalized
Six months before being shot in the neck and murdered, the popular conservative commentator Charlie Kirk retweeted our study on political…
How could Starmer not see the Mandelson disaster coming?
‘Oh, Mandy Well, you kissed me And stopped me from shaking And I need you today Oh, Mandy’ So sang…
Farage: UK ambassador to US job ‘very tempting’
A day is a long time in politics. On Wednesday Keir Starmer said during PMQs he had full confidence in…
Ed Miliband’s lonely war on the North Sea
When even green energy tycoons are telling him to embrace the North Sea oil and gas industries, Ed Miliband really…
Labour MP’s office targeted in suspected arson attack
It’s not been a quiet news week. From Israel’s strikes in Qatar to Russian drones appearing in Polish airspace to…
Even John Lewis is struggling in this Labour economy
It is a worker’s cooperative. It promotes sustainability, emphasises its social responsibility, invests in its people, and, of course, has…
Lord Mandelson sacked as US ambassador
Peter Mandelson has been sacked as British Ambassador to the United States after further revelations emerged about his relationship with…
