World
After TikTok, there’s another app we should ban
The American House of Representatives has passed a bill ordering Bytedance, a Chinese company, to divest from TikTok or stop…
The underrated charm of minor-league hockey
I live outside Pittsburgh, home to fans who bleed the black and gold of the Steelers, Penguins and Pirates (OK,…
USC’s suppression of the anti-Israel valedictorian is unacceptable
University of Southern California’s 2024 valedictorian, Asna Tabassum, will not be allowed to deliver a speech at the university’s commencement…
Donald Trump’s U-turn could vindicate his Tory enthusiasts
Better late than never. In Washington, the House of Representatives last night voted to approve £49 billion funding in aid…
The Met doesn’t care about anti-Semitism
We’re familiar by now with the peculiar paradox of left-wingers and feminists, those weird well-born women who would scream blue…
Richard Dawkins: in defence of scientific truth
When we meet in the House of Lords, Professor Richard Dawkins has just addressed a cross-party parliamentary gathering of politicians and…
The US war aid might be too little, too late for Ukraine
At the last possible moment, after months of prevarication and with Russian troops on the brink of a major breakthrough…
Are smartphones really destroying the mental health of a generation?
If you want to make your name in psychiatry, find a problem, identify a plausible one-factor solution, and then offer…
Why a Labour super-majority is unlikely
In economic, there is a phenomenon known as ‘automatic stabilisers’, which kick in at the onset of a recession. Without…
Wartime Budapest was a haven, then a hell, for Europe’s Jews
One day in May 1944, in the Nagyvárad ghetto, Sándor Leitner saw an elderly man struggling to walk towards him.…
Australia is in danger of tearing itself apart
In her new book, Liz Truss says she likes Australia and Australians. The country is, she says, ‘like Britain without…
At Columbia… that’s all, folx!
Undoubtedly the best moment in the testimony of Minouche Shafik, the President Columbia University, before the House Committee on Education…
What Kemi Badenoch gets right about colonialism
Kemi Badenoch has developed a habit of truth telling. This is risky in our climate of rigid cultural orthodoxy, for…
Scotland’s surprising new free speech champion
Has Nicola Sturgeon discovered a sudden enthusiasm for free speech? The former SNP leader has today reviewed Salman Rushdie’s latest…
Could this be the Scottish Greens’ tuition fees moment?
Questions of power bedevil radical politics. Is entry into government the only way to force change? Do the opportunities of…
Welsh Labour’s speeding U-turn shows devolution is beginning to grate
The tragedy of Wales’ 20 mph speed limit, which is now to be relaxed, was that it took a good…
Britain doesn’t need an Iron Dome
Air defence was in the news this week, after Israel, with the help of allies including the UK, shot down…
What happened to the Glasgow I love?
The perception of Glasgow still held by outsiders – that it’s all tenement blocks and stabbings, that the only food…
Scrapping replays could be the beginning of the end for the FA Cup
Is time running out for the oldest knock-out tournament of them all? The FA cup‘s obituary has been written a…
Ukraine’s plight is getting more desperate by the day
Driving into the bomb-damaged eastern Ukrainian town of Kostiantynivka you can hear the impacts from the big Russian guns and…
The CofE’s female clergy muddle is not sustainable
It’s thirty years since the first women were ordained as priests of the Church of England. For ten years, there…
Israel’s attack on Iran was perfectly calibrated
Today, there have been reports of explosions in Isfahan, in central Iran, in what is presumed to be a strike…
Is Georgia’s future with Europe, or Russia?
On Wednesday, Georgia’s government came one step closer to realising its desire to embed the country deeper within Russia’s sphere…
Watch: Sturgeon reacts after husband charged in police probe
Might this be the worst week of 2024 for the Nats so far? Hapless Humza Yousaf demonstrated extraordinary indecision over…
We’re better off with Hamas in Qatar, than out
The news that Qatar is ‘re-evaluating’ its role as mediator in the ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas, amid claims by the…
