World
My zucchini seedling scheme
Véronique arrives 45 minutes late, a vision of practiced nonchalance and rustic affectation in a loose-fitting linen smock dress, clutching…
Bribing motorists to buy electric vehicles is an expensive mistake
At last, the government has found a use for that large pile of surplus money which has been causing it…
Rachel Reeves’s ‘Big Bang’ is doomed
We probably won’t see the return of shoulder pads, big hair, or yuppies swilling champagne in the bars around Liverpool…
How Trump can win the Nobel Peace Prize
Openly, President Trump has expressed a desire to win the Nobel Peace Prize. This is understandable. It is “the world’s…
We’ve missed an important clue about The Salt Path fiasco
When the truth of Raynor Winn’s The Salt Path was called into question, many commentators jumped in with both feet;…
Soaring asylum costs threaten aid budget, watchdog warns Labour
Immigration is never off the news agenda these days, as Brits remain concerned about the influx of people to the…
What liberalism’s critics get wrong
Perhaps we are living in the early sixteenth century. Think of the ideology of the West as a sort of…
The BBC Gaza documentary report is a cover-up
The BBC’s long-awaited editorial review of its documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone was published today. It reads not like a…
Plastic-free paradise
“Welcome to Wayanad. From here, all plastic is banned.” Prasanth was on a mission, belly pressed to the carpet of…
Layla Moran’s nimbyism backfires
Oh dear. It seems that Layla Moran – the oracle of Oxfordshire – has been left with egg on her…
Has Putin turned Trump into a Russia hawk?
No, President Trump wasn’t referring to Russian president Vladimir Putin when he talked at a White House luncheon today about…
Trump is turning ‘Biden’s war’ into his own
It’s official: President Trump is tired of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bloody shenanigans. While he won’t admit it, it’s likely…
Trump has given Ukraine a chance to stop Putin in his tracks
It took Donald Trump six months, at least six useless phone calls with Vladimir Putin and more than a thousand…
Will Trump rename soccer?
On the one-year anniversary of the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt on his life, President Trump celebrated on stage with Chelsea…
Biden attempts to straighten the record on his autopen
President Joe Biden granted 1,500 pardons in what was the largest single-day act of clemency by a US president back…
This report confirms what we knew: the BBC has an Israel problem
The BBC has not had a ‘good war’ since 7 October. Whether it is the smug anti-Israel tone of its reporters, or its…
The Ministry of Defence has dropped the ball on fighter jets
If Defence Secretary John Healey didn’t have an anxious and unsettled weekend, he should have done. The Ministry of Defence…
Biden admits he had no idea who he pardoned with autopen
Let’s not pretend this is normal. President Joe Biden has admitted that he didn’t personally approve the full list of…
South Korea’s ticking age time bomb
Think of South Korea, and K-pop, Korean cuisine, films and perhaps even skincare products spring to mind. The fact that…
King Charles and Harry won’t be reconciling any time soon
The news that appeared in the Sunday newspapers was intriguing, to say the least. A meeting has taken place at…
Gaza documentary report finds BBC misled viewers
Back to the BBC, which is better at making the news than breaking it these days. This afternoon a report…
Will the new anti-Semitism report change anything?
For any Jew – or anyone who is alive to Jew hate – a report from the commission on anti-Semitism…
Will Ed Miliband’s climate change speech be a ‘radical truth’?
For once, Ed Miliband is right about something: the British way of life is under threat. But it is not…
The populist case for fixing the pension system
Pensions rarely top the Westminster agenda or get politicians excited. Too boring, too distant. But maybe, just maybe, pensions will…
Why Trump can’t escape the Epstein Files drama
President Trump remains baffled over the endlessly churning Epstein List controversy. “We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like…
