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The fight against assisted dying in Scotland is not over yet

14 May 2025 8:06 pm

Assisted suicide has cleared its first hurdle in the Scottish parliament, but there could be many more to come. On…

The sorry farce of Afrikaner ‘refugees’ fleeing ‘white genocide’

14 May 2025 7:00 pm

The worst victims of South Africa’s African National Congress are not white Afrikaners, even if they are a vulnerable group.…

All hail Sheikh Trump, the peaceful

14 May 2025 5:09 pm

President Trump is an America Firster, but he has an undeniable affinity for the Arab world. He would have made…

Trump has given Syria’s new leader the ultimate gift

14 May 2025 4:59 pm

President Donald Trump was in a generous mood on the first day of his Middle East tour, announcing the lifting…

Palestine and the truth about the Nakba

14 May 2025 4:00 pm

The Nakba – Arabic for ‘the catastrophe’ and commemorated today – marks a profound moment of trauma in the Palestinian…

Trump has no appetite for a second-term war

14 May 2025 7:38 am

Now more than ever, Donald Trump appears to be channeling his inner Lord Palmerston. It was the 19th-century prime minister,…

Trump turns on Netanyahu after securing US hostage release

14 May 2025 5:58 am

As the military helicopter carrying Edan Alexander – the last remaining American hostage held by Hamas – landed on top…

Poll: college-educated women end friendships over politics

14 May 2025 3:27 am

New polling data shows what you may already suspect: your experience of losing friends since the 2024 election of Donald…

Homosexuality will be illegal in Disney’s new UAE park

14 May 2025 3:00 am

One month after Kristallnacht, in 1938, the Nazi film director Leni Riefenstahl was an honored guest at Walt Disney’s studio.…

Peter Sullivan should never have been in prison

14 May 2025 2:22 am

Peter Sullivan, a man of ‘limited intellectual capacity’ and ‘suggestibility’, has been exonerated after spending 38 years in jail for…

What Starmer’s immigration critics don’t get

14 May 2025 1:18 am

Keir Starmer has finally realised that he needs to tackle rising immigration. The Prime Minister said yesterday that Britain risks…

Will the Beeb sack Lineker over his pro-Palestine post?

14 May 2025 12:48 am

Will Gary Lineker ever learn? As if the BBC Sports pundit hadn’t caused enough controversy, now the left-wing centre forward…

Tory MP charged with sexual assault

14 May 2025 12:35 am

It is less than a fortnight since the Runcorn by-election, caused by the resignation of Mike Amesbury for punching a…

NHS ‘spy scales’ won’t tackle childhood obesity

14 May 2025 12:07 am

NHS England, ostensibly wishing to respond to the challenge of childhood obesity, announced yesterday the introduction of ‘spy scales’ to…

Trump and Netanyahu go their separate ways

14 May 2025 12:01 am

The release of Edan Alexander, the last living American-Israeli hostage held by Hamas, was a moment of profound relief for…

What can we really expect from the US-Iran talks?

13 May 2025 11:13 pm

This weekend in Muscat, US and Iranian diplomats held a fourth round of talks, continuing their efforts to find a…

How to get Gen Z to fight for Britain

13 May 2025 10:32 pm

It is easy to despair of young people as self-absorbed, isolated from reality and unwilling to take on the hard…

Brits now most concerned about borders since Brexit

13 May 2025 10:28 pm

On Monday Prime Minister Keir Starmer made his big immigration speech in which he warned that without tightening rules the…

Can France dismantle the NGO-migrant complex?

13 May 2025 9:53 pm

France’s interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, and his party Les Républicains (LR) are moving to end the decades-long monopoly on providing legal…

Trump’s trade war is driving Russia further into China’s arms

13 May 2025 9:52 pm

Trade between Russia and China is no longer booming as it was immediately after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine three…

When will the EU do a deal with Trump?

13 May 2025 8:38 pm

China has wrapped up a pretty good trade deal. The UK has managed to agree to lift some of the…

Trump is treating Israel like a nettlesome supplicant

13 May 2025 7:00 pm

When Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the first foreign leaders to congratulate him were Israeli officials. Now, as he…

Reeves’s jobs tax is beginning to bite

13 May 2025 6:59 pm

Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the UK unemployment rate has risen to 4.5 per…

Man arrested after fires at Starmer’s home

13 May 2025 5:41 pm

After it emerged on Monday afternoon that the Metropolitan Police were probing a fire that had broken out at Sir…

Why has the BBC’s gay dating show got a trans contestant?

13 May 2025 4:23 pm

‘The UK’s first ever gay dating show is louder, prouder, and more irresistible than ever,’ says the BBC about I Kissed…