World
Has the UN hit rock bottom?
The word ‘surreal’ barely does justice to what’s been happening in recent weeks. Quite apart from the possible collapse of…
Starmer must fight Miliband’s fracking Luddism
On Monday, concrete will be poured into Britain’s last two shale gas wells in Lancashire. Cuadrilla Resources, which owns the…
How Spain is trying to dodge spending more on defence
Spain’s defence spending, at a mere 1.28 per cent of its GDP, lags behind all other Nato members. While most…
Putin has set a trap for the Ukraine ceasefire plan
Vladimir Putin has set his conditions for Donald Trump’s ‘unconditional’ ceasefire: Kyiv must not mobilise or train troops, nor receive…
Why does it take the snatching of a baby wombat to spark outrage about animal rights?
An American influencer called Sam Jones has been roundly denounced after she posted a video of her snatching a wild…
Vance booed at Kennedy Center performance
You wouldn’t expect the Kennedy Center to exactly love J.D. Vance. But that doesn’t make the audience’s reaction to him…
Treasury: employer tax hikes could reduce employment
It has not been Rachel Reeves’s year. From accusations of CV embellishment to noisy backlash over the farmer’s tax, the…
Are our jails unfixable?
The Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report, published today, addresses the prison cell crisis in the UK, highlighting huge government…
Why Keir Starmer must cut disability benefits
Keir Starmer’s imminent attempt to curb Britain’s spending on welfare is a more serious and important bid to curb the…
Fixing free childcare would be an easy win for Labour
Parents of young children should be happy: since September 2024, those with an income of less than £100,000 a year…
Is Putin preparing to abandon Iran?
As the world reels from the chaos of a geopolitical order turned upside down, and as we wait to see…
Is Trump going to kill off champagne?
Well, it looks like it’s going to be war between the European Union and the US. A trade war that…
Eliminating the Education Department is the key to restoring American culture
Since the US Department of Education’s inception in 1980, the agency has proven itself to be incompetent at its principal…
Sturgeon still under investigation as probe costs top £2m
Nicola Sturgeon may be leaving Holyrood next year, but the spectre of Operation Branchform isn’t going away any time soon.…
Germany is heading towards an immigration catastrophe
The German Social Democratic party (SPD) has published its working paper on immigration. It calls for half a million more…
Why the Jaffar Express was hijacked in Pakistan
The Jaffar Express, a train with over 400 people on board, was hijacked in Pakistan’s Balochistan province on Tuesday, leaving at…
Is a criminal gang exploiting anti-Semitism in Australia?
In late January, Australians were convulsed out of their summer holiday torpor by what appeared to be an elaborate anti-Semitic…
The economy is shrinking. Rachel Reeves must act
The economy shrank by 0.1 per cent in January according to figures just published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The…
The problem with putting US nukes in Poland
Nukes are becoming a big issue for Poland. One way or another, both the Polish president and prime minister want…
Why couldn’t this elite school cope with my talk on anti-Semitism?
Perhaps it is a rite of passage these days for a journalist to be cancelled. But I never expected that…
Is the sugar tax to blame for the slushy drinks scare?
The alleged ‘success’ of Mexico’s tax on sugary drinks inspired George Osborne to announce a sugar tax for the UK…
Trump’s war on Europe should not surprise anyone
Has there been a more cataclysmic year than 2025 for US-Europe relations? It started with US Vice President J.D. Vance’s…
The federal-state collisions looming over New York
For New York liberals of a certain age, the term “states’ rights” has long been synonymous with segregation in the…
The Versaces have left Versace
Donatella Versace was never supposed to be a fashion designer. She had no formal fashion education and was happy working…
Does Meghan Markle need another podcast?
‘Success’, Winston Churchill supposedly once remarked, ‘is the ability to go from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.’ If…
