World
No Other Land isn’t what it seems
The Oscars, an institution that claims to celebrate artistic excellence, this week played a leading role in a sophisticated and…
Why are we such swine to pigs?
We all know the nursery rhyme about “this little piggy”: one little piggy went to market, one little piggy stayed…
Greggs is a great British success story
Whenever I’m walking down Cornmarket Street in Oxford – an otherwise unlovely thoroughfare – there is something about the spectacle…
Trump bulldozes through joint address to Congress
We’ve been told that President Trump’s address to Congress tonight would dilate on the theme of the “Renewal of the…
Trump’s Ukraine strategy is mad. But it might work
Will the real Volodymyr Zelensky please stand up? On Sunday, Ukraine’s president defiantly stated that ‘the final deal about ending…
Canada can do more to address the fentanyl crisis
It was a field day for the Canadian freight industry on Monday. Every truck in the country, stuffed to the gills…
How the ghost of Iraq haunts peace in Ukraine
It’s great that JD Vance is all for free speech, though he does tend to shoot off his mouth in…
Will Zelensky’s apology work on Trump?
Volodymyr Zelensky is offering Donald Trump an olive branch after the American president paused all US military aid to Ukraine…
Were the builders of Stonehenge black?
In recent years the study of human ancient DNA – extracted from excavated remains rather than living people – has…
Can Kemi Badenoch control her party?
Donald Trump’s decision overnight to pause US military aid to Ukraine has sent politicians across the world into a tailspin.…
Netflix’s ‘With Love, Meghan’ is surreally dull
My experience of Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex and Muchness of Montecito, has I imagine been quite a common one.…
Assisted dying panel rejects Down’s Syndrome safeguard
The western world might be collapsing but here in Westminster it is business as usual. In one of parliament’s dusty…
JD Vance accused of ‘disrespect’ to British troops
As if transatlantic relations could not get any worse. Barely 72 hours after the Oval Office bust up, the Trump administration…
Britain is not prepared for car ramming terrorist attacks
At least two people have died and several injured after a car was driven down a busy shopping street yesterday…
Operation Midland’s guilty men were never held to account
On March 4, 2015, I sat in the bedroom of my home, an old farmhouse overlooking the rolling beauty of…
Tory MP: Trump is a ‘Russian asset’
Graham Stuart is perhaps not the best-known Tory backbencher, but the former energy minister has catapulted himself into the national…
Keir Starmer’s bridge to Trump is crumbling
So it turns out he wasn’t bluffing after all. Six weeks after taking office, Donald Trump has made two big…
Nigel Farage will regret his anti-Zelensky comments
‘I just thought Reform cared about national borders and sovereignty’. So sighed the journalist Julia Hartley-Brewer at the end of…
Netflix’s ‘With Love, Meghan’ is Brand Sussex’s final hope
So here it is, the undistinguished thing, at last. I had hopes that, after its postponement because of the Californian…
What would George Orwell make of the assisted dying debate?
George Orwell would have plenty to say about the language used in the assisted dying debate. As Orwell wrote in his…
The Trump-Zelensky clash was the most awkward TV in decades
The visits of Keir Starmer and president Zelensky to the Oval Office last week were both agonising to behold, in…
Is Macron a ‘danger for peace’ in Ukraine?
Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are in competition to be the de facto leader of the European response to the…
Why should Zelensky be grateful to Trump?
A consensus seems to be forming, in certain quarters, that the debacle at the White House meeting on Friday –…
The trouble with ‘gentle parenting’
What type of parent are you? Buried beneath a litany of books detailing how to raise children ‘the right way,’…
‘I had two jobs: to run the country and to survive’: an interview with President Trump
From the moment you enter Donald J. Trump’s Oval Office, you are surrounded, not by staff or Secret Service, but…
