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Australia has finally woken up to the Iranian threat
Geographically, eastern Australia is about as far from Israel and Gaza as anyone can get. But given the Australian government’s…
Farage sets out his mass deportation plan
In an Oxfordshire aircraft hanger this morning, Nigel Farage finally unveiled his party’s long-awaited deportations strategy. For six weeks, asylum…
Alexander Isak and the stunning hypocrisy of Liverpool fans
Anyone who has looked at modern football and muttered ‘the game’s gone’ has a point. Nothing confirms this belief more…
Is France about to trigger the next financial crash?
Its debts are out of control. There is very little space left to raise taxes any further. And the political…
Record jobless benefits are a national scandal
Quietly, without even a press release let alone a fanfare, Britain over the past 12 months has just passed a…
Does Virginia Giuffre have the power to finish off Prince Andrew?
There’s an old saying that revenge tastes best when served cold. The late Virginia Giuffre has gone a step further…
Is this the end for Emmanuel Macron?
Prime Minister François Bayrou has recalled parliament for a confidence vote on 8 September, betting he can outmanoeuvre a surging…
Will Donald Trump meet Lucy Connolly?
‘Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care, while you’re…
Where did it all go so wrong for Britain?
If I had to summarise, in a word, the mood of the nation in 2025, I’d probably plump for fraught.…
Macron is blind to the decivilisation of France
For the second time in a week, Emmanuel Macron has been criticised for allowing antisemitism to run riot in France.…
The devastating cost of cashless bail
The President taking such decisive action to save lives this past week is bittersweet beyond words. For years, we begged…
Trump’s Squid Games with South Korean President
“WHAT IS GOING ON IN SOUTH KOREA?” President Trump posted over breakfast. “Seems like a Purge or Revolution. We can’t…
Zohran’s embarrassing scavenger hunt
I still look back fondly on my 10th birthday party – a cute little scavenger hunt through the landmarks of…
Farage, flags and the forgotten English
The flag-raisings in towns and cities across the country are an inevitable consequence of elites’ seeming preference for every flag…
Leave bad manners to the public, not the police
Most people deplore bad behaviour in public and gratuitous breaches of etiquette and manners on trains and buses. Few would…
J.D. Vance: proconsul to Britain?
Vice President J.D. Vance’s family vacation in Britain was disrupted by protesters who insisted that he was not welcome in the country. In the Cotswolds, an area northwest…
Starmer is dodging the real asylum battle
The government is badly rattled on immigration. It knows that its perceived inability either to curb rampant asylum abuses or…
Angela Rayner’s not-so-scandalous ‘third home’
Angela Rayner, it’s reported, has bought a ‘third home’. The three-bedroom seaside flat on the south coast that she has…
What publishing a book has in common with childbirth
‘Are you ready?’ a kind but optimistic friend asked me a few weeks ago with a look of genuine concern.…
The death of a streamer is being used to stifle free speech
One viewer whispered on the livestream: ‘Yes, keep going… Keep going’. Moments later, Jean Pormanove was dead. Last Sunday night…
Why you shouldn’t wait for the ‘right time’ to have children
Fertility rates in Britain are in freefall. The average number of children per woman is now 1.44, the lowest in…
Vegas’s seedy soul will save Sin City
I vividly remember the first time I saw Las Vegas. It was decades ago, and a friend and I did…
Will Trump go to war with the cartels?
President Donald Trump has signed off on a secret directive that, if activated, would let the US military hunt Mexican…
I can’t resist Angela Rayner
Seeing those photographs of Angela Rayner on Hove beach in broad daylight drinking a vast glass of rosé (‘day wine’…
Meloni is winning her war on left-wing squats
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has won what looks like a significant victory in her quest to eradicate squatting. About…
