World
Why Messi matters
I hope that the Argentinian national team (also known as Lionel Messi) will win its third (or first?) World Cup…
The Twitter Files communication breakdown
The gradual release of the Twitter Files is impressive in its scale and its revelations about the internal workings of…
The Twitter Files show Donald Trump should never have been banned
The latest Twitter Files revelations are the most disturbing yet. They show how the employees of this private company, not…
Union outcry over working conditions in parliament
Trains, hospitals and schools – there are few aspects of British life left untouched by the winter of discontent. And…
Brexit’s critics are strangely quiet about the European parliament scandal
The corruption scandal embroiling the European parliament and the European Union’s institutions at the highest level is shaping up to…
Rishi Sunak’s immigration plan could be a game changer
Rishi Sunak today gave a potentially game-changing statement in the Commons, finally committing the Conservatives to effective action when it…
Rishi Sunak will regret his Channel crossings crackdown
Rishi Sunak’s latest promises on asylum and immigration suggest the PM has learned very little from his Tory forebears. Ken…
The fall of FTX is just the beginning of the crypto collapse
It will come as no comfort to those who have already lost fortunes, but it is remarkable how resilient the…
Why the rising unemployment rate might not be such bad news
Is unemployment beginning to bite? Or are the workless trying to rejoin the economy? That’s the key question after the…
Jacinda Ardern caught on camera name-calling rival
Jacinda Ardern’s political philosophy is simple. When the New Zealand PM was asked to explain the qualities that led to…
James Cleverly’s shameful silence on the fate of Jimmy Lai
Have you heard about the British citizen facing the prospect of spending the rest of his life in a Chinese…
It’s no surprise Britain can’t cope with snow
If you’ve managed to avoid the dimly-lit pictures of people’s back gardens, you won’t have heard the news: the snow…
Why is Elton John so pompous?
‘All my life,’ Elton John told the Twittersphere last Friday afternoon, ‘I’ve tried to use music to bring people together.…
Why Sikhs love King Charles III
Poor old King Charles has had a tricky start to his reign. Harry and Meghan’s tell-all Netflix show, in which…
How Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle invented the modern celebrity feud
1922 saw its fair share of shocks in the literary world, among them the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Sinclair…
Will Republicans learn from the midterms?
The 2022 midterm elections consumed more than 16.5 billion real American dollars. They featured thousands of candidates and the most…
Is Scotland’s strike momentum slowing?
Finally, good news on the strike front: NHS staff in Scotland have decided against walking out after voting to accept…
The National Archives fires back at Matt Hancock
Oh dear. It seems that Matt Hancock has been called out on his Covid record, again. In his newly-published ‘Pandemic…
Can the EU recover from the Qatar corruption scandal?
Four people associated with the European parliament have been arrested in what seems to be the beginning of a major…
Elon Musk loudly booed on stage at Dave Chappelle gig
Is Elon Musk losing his appeal? Cockburn concedes that being the richest man in the world must be pretty sweet.…
Joe Biden, border dodger
President Joe Biden doesn’t answer many questions without his handler-approved list of reporters. So when he does occasionally go rogue,…
Why I’m finished with football
I have spent many, many years dutifully squeezing into pubs full of rapt, drinking men giving excessively loud voice to…
Harry and Meghan have stepped up their war on the Windsors
The first part of the Harry and Meghan show on Netflix was something of a let down. Over three tedious…
Oxford’s highwayman campaign against motorists
Oxford councillors are feeling rattled by opposition to their proposal to divide the city into six districts and to limit…
ChatGPT: a world-class BS machine
Two weeks ago, like most people, I hadn’t so much as heard of ChatGPT. By last week, I was hearing of practically nothing but. After OpenAI…
