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Kim Jong Un is mad about a boat

24 May 2025 1:50 am

Kim Jong Un is not a happy man. Only a month after he unveiled North Korea’s first 5,000-ton destroyer, another…

The EU could pay a high price for not settling with Trump

24 May 2025 1:25 am

The deals have been settled. The exceptions have been made. And supply chains have started to return to normal, while…

CNN can’t kill Tim Dillon

24 May 2025 12:53 am

“I’ve been researching comedy,” CNN’s Elle Reeve announces grimly at the start of her hour-long interview with comedian Tim Dillon,…

Israel should not listen to Keir Starmer

24 May 2025 12:35 am

Benjamin Netanyahu should not be Prime Minister of Israel. It is a stain on Israel’s political system that after the…

Kevin Spacey’s #MeToo revenge

24 May 2025 12:26 am

In the 1950s, witch hunts were stoked by pamphlets identifying supposed communists in the media. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo fell victim…

Labour MP backs Lowe’s calls to free Lucy Connolly

23 May 2025 11:38 pm

The case of Lucy Connolly, the wife of a Tory councillor who was jailed over an offensive tweet, has sparked…

Netanyahu accuses Starmer of siding with Hamas

23 May 2025 9:12 pm

To Netanyahu, who has taken aim at Prime Minister Keir Starmer after the deaths of a young Jewish couple in…

What Trump gets wrong about South Africa’s white ‘genocide’

23 May 2025 8:54 pm

There’s a joke in South Africa that it’s so easy to claim asylum here, even the Swiss could do so.…

How Starmer was stitched up over the Chagos islands

23 May 2025 8:52 pm

Yesterday, following a last-minute flurry of lawfare, the government published the text of its Chagos agreement with Mauritius. Future history…

Is it any surprise doctors are trying their luck with more strikes?

23 May 2025 8:15 pm

Did anyone really think that the incoming Starmer government was going to appease the public sector unions for long by…

Only now are Britain’s high streets busier than before Covid

23 May 2025 6:54 pm

Finally, in a horrible week for Rachel Reeves which has seen inflation surge, the public finances take a dive and…

What to do about Iran?

23 May 2025 6:46 pm

China is surely America’s most dangerous threat over the medium term, but Iran is surely the most dangerous right now. The Islamic Republic would be even…

Reform must prove to voters they’re more than a protest party

23 May 2025 5:01 pm

Reform is now touching 30 per cent in the polls, as Labour lags on 22 per cent and the Tories…

Is chemically castrating sex offenders really a good idea?

23 May 2025 3:44 pm

Convicted paedophiles could face mandatory chemical castration to suppress their libidos under plans being considered by the justice secretary. Shabana…

Harold Wilson was awful and brilliant

23 May 2025 3:30 pm

Does anyone still talk about Harold Wilson, the Labour prime minister who died 30 years ago today? Though the Labour…

The Chagos deal is a disgrace

23 May 2025 6:18 am

It has been in the background for a few months, but it seems Keir Starmer has now decided to resurface…

Donald Trump should visit a black beer hall in South Africa 

23 May 2025 5:05 am

If Donald Trump and Elon Musk really want to know if there is a “white genocide” happening in South Africa,…

The Chagos deal will haunt Keir Starmer

23 May 2025 2:37 am

After months of negotiation, the UK has today signed a deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Under the…

Israeli Embassy terror suspect formed by hard-left and BLM

23 May 2025 2:26 am

The murder last night of two young Israeli embassy staffers, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, on a street in Washington,…

Britain really is becoming an island of strangers

23 May 2025 2:22 am

New migration data released today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests Britain really is becoming an ‘island of…

One Big Beautiful win for House Republicans

23 May 2025 2:15 am

The passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” early Thursday morning by the slimmest of margins in the House…

The irony of Kim Kardashian and Ivanka Trump’s friendship

23 May 2025 12:34 am

Cockburn was amused by the recent spectacle of Kim Kardashian’s law school triumph (after three “baby bar” exams and a…

Reform gains another Scottish Tory councillor

23 May 2025 12:01 am

To Aberdeenshire in Scotland, where a fourth Scottish Tory councillor has defected to Reform UK. It transpires that Dominic Lonchay…

This is what it means to ‘globalise the intifada’

22 May 2025 10:50 pm

‘Globalise the intifada,’ they chanted. This is what that looks like. Two Israeli embassy staffers gunned down as they left…

We’re finally allowed to say Biden was senile!

22 May 2025 10:40 pm

So, Joe Biden spent a great deal of his term in office suffering from what might politely be called senile…