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Elon Musk’s America party could hurt Republicans

8 July 2025 7:00 pm

Elon Musk has set up a third party and pledged to contest next year’s midterms. But to find a third…

The Dubai influencer craze can’t end quick enough

8 July 2025 6:58 pm

Marcus Fakana, a British 18 year old, has been in prison in the United Arab Emirates since December. His crime?…

Is Labour prepared to alienate SEND parents?

8 July 2025 5:22 pm

Welcome to the Isle of Sheppey, a stretch of pebbled beaches and caravan parks that regularly stars in the ONS’s…

Organised crime has conquered Britain’s prisons

8 July 2025 4:28 pm

Charlie Taylor, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, has published his first annual report since Labour took office. It will make…

Europe must prepare to support Ukraine without America

8 July 2025 4:10 pm

It is unquestionably the case that people who should have known better were blinded by the Capri-Sun King’s glare when…

What was missing from the 7/7 commemorations

8 July 2025 4:00 pm

Something was scarce, if not absent, in the commemorations of the 7/7 Islamist attacks yesterday, and that is the fact…

Britain’s parliament doesn’t need to hear from Emmanuel Macron

8 July 2025 3:59 pm

If ever a French president needed a state visit to Britain, it is Emmanuel Macron. All the pomp and ceremony…

Period talk needs to stop. Period

8 July 2025 3:45 pm

When the supermodel Brooks Nader’s period started at Wimbledon, naturally she turned to social media. ‘Tries to be chic. Starts…

Elon Musk is America’s dumbest smart person

8 July 2025 5:50 am

Anyone who has perambulated through the groves of academe has encountered dumb smart people. They are clever, intellectually nimble, but they…

Tucker tosses softballs to Iran

8 July 2025 5:40 am

“I didn’t ask hard questions because I knew I wouldn’t get an honest answer,” said Tucker Carlson, our edgelord Barbara…

RFK Jr. faces down M&M’s

8 July 2025 5:29 am

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may have finally met his match: the green M&M. Mars, which manufactures various popular candies including…

Can Trump get Netanyahu to end the war in Gaza?

8 July 2025 4:55 am

Benjamin Netanyahu has landed in Washington for talks with Donald Trump about the war in Gaza. These, combined with Israel-Hamas…

The ghost of Liz Truss haunts parliament

8 July 2025 4:54 am

Today’s Urgent Question in the House of Commons about the state of the economy was dominated by two people who…

We’ll never know the truth about Jeffrey Epstein

8 July 2025 1:09 am

Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, he did his sex crimes in private and no one who associated with him – much less visited his…

Must we forgive the 7/7 bombers?

7 July 2025 11:01 pm

‘Bear in mind these dead, I can find no plainer words,’ wrote the Northern Irish poet John Hewitt reflecting on…

Was Easter Island less isolated than we previously thought?

7 July 2025 10:42 pm

It’s hard to exaggerate how isolated Easter Island was before its discovery by Polynesian sailors eight or nine centuries ago.…

There’s one thing readers enjoy more than a story like The Salt Path

7 July 2025 10:11 pm

Only last week, I was having lunch when The Salt Path came up in conversation. ‘That’s the one about the…

In defence of Wimbledon’s AI line judge

7 July 2025 10:04 pm

Does anything work in Broken Britain? You’d be forgiven for wondering when even during our most prestigious sporting tournaments the…

Don’t politicize the Texas flood

7 July 2025 8:43 pm

It’s early Monday morning here in Central Texas, and the rain just keeps on falling. Over the wettest weekend any…

The UN has become the Taliban’s lapdog

7 July 2025 8:20 pm

Britain and other western nations have abandoned the women of Afghanistan in pursuit of a UN programme of engagement with…

Don’t trust Starmer to fend off the SEND rebels

7 July 2025 7:39 pm

Keir Starmer’s government is heading for trouble – again. Last time it was welfare reform, now it’s SEND (special educational…

Has Labour abandoned the steel industry?

7 July 2025 7:25 pm

We will no doubt hear lots of familiar excuses if later this week, as seems increasingly likely, the British steel…

Brighton council leader reports Rod Liddle to the police

7 July 2025 7:06 pm

It seems that some people really can’t take a joke… In the magazine this week, Rod Liddle wistfully contemplated the…

Zohran Mamdani wouldn’t mock his own faith

7 July 2025 7:00 pm

Zohran Mamdani is defensive about his faith and has maintained that his culture is “not a costume.” Why then, New…

Australia’s fascination with the ‘mushroom murders’ must end

7 July 2025 5:00 pm

After an eight-week trial followed avidly around Australia and the world, and a week’s jury deliberation, Australia’s answer to Lucrezia…