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Israel’s shadow war on Iran has burst into the open

13 June 2025 4:59 pm

Woken by sirens outside my window in Israel at 3 a.m. I made my way to the bomb shelter in…

Trial by victimhood has taken over Britain’s courts

13 June 2025 4:00 pm

We live in a country in which petty grievances and perceived slights abound, and one in which resentments and gripes…

Tackling child poverty may prove a vote winner for Farage

13 June 2025 4:00 pm

In news bound to make Keir Starmer nervous, voters in 121 Labour-held constituencies with high rates of child poverty are…

How will Iran respond to the Israeli airstrikes?

13 June 2025 3:54 pm

President Donald Trump was off the mark when he was asked about the likelihood of an Israeli military strike on…

Life is too precious for assisted dying

13 June 2025 3:30 pm

Assisted dying has attracted for me, and no doubt many other MPs, far more mail than any other issue. The weight of…

What is the point of the RSPCA?

13 June 2025 3:30 pm

The secretly-filmed footage is a horror show. Hens are desperately trying to escape as they suffocate in a gas chamber.…

The sad decline of reading

13 June 2025 3:26 pm

At secondary school open days, English teachers are always asked the same questions by anxious parents of year six students:…

Hogg out: youngest DNC vice chair ousted

13 June 2025 5:15 am

Congratulations David Hogg: the youngest ever DNC vice chair has earned the honor of serving the shortest term in the…

Economist accuses Reeves of ‘making up numbers’ in spending review

13 June 2025 2:12 am

While certain government departments celebrated Rachel Reeves’s spending review – Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner even threw a party the…

Trump’s birthday surprise – war with Iran?

13 June 2025 2:01 am

The Trump presidency is giving us all a type of news-related diabetes. So much sensational information is spewing out of…

The un-American revolution 

13 June 2025 1:34 am

The riots raging in Los Angeles are an unwelcome present ahead of America’s birthday, which is less than a month…

Westminster must fall

12 June 2025 11:06 pm

Dominic Cummings delivered a Pharos Lecture in Oxford this week on why western regimes are in crisis. Here is an…

How good was Brian Wilson?

12 June 2025 11:02 pm

I recently did an online quiz to name the 100 biggest selling pop and rock acts in the USA. The…

Reform gains another councillor in blow for Scottish Tories

12 June 2025 9:31 pm

Dear oh dear. With just days to go until the Scottish Conservative conference, party leader Russell Findlay will have been…

The tragedy of Brian Wilson’s life

12 June 2025 8:40 pm

The late Brian Wilson, who has died aged 82, once had his songs, which included modern-day classics such as ‘God…

Is Israel preparing to strike Iran?

12 June 2025 6:46 pm

While much of the Western debate remains trapped in tired slogans and false moral narratives, events on the ground in…

Britain’s GDP decline is bad news for Rachel Reeves’ spending plans

12 June 2025 5:36 pm

Rachel Reeves delivered her spending plans for the next three years less than 24 hours ago, but already the credibility…

Why isn’t the BBC telling us what caused the Ballymena riots?

12 June 2025 5:11 pm

Does anyone know what’s actually happening in Ballymena, in Northern Ireland? If you’ve just been following the news on the…

Could Donald Trump scrap Aukus?

12 June 2025 4:42 pm

America’s policy undersecretary of defence, Elbridge Colby, is one of the brightest brains in Donald Trump’s administration. Having served in…

Nigel Farage was the spending review’s real winner

12 June 2025 3:00 pm

When chancellors approach a major moment like a Spending Review, they tend to have a figure in their mind’s eye…

Randi Weingarten’s anti-Trump national uprising sounds ‘mostly peaceful’

12 June 2025 5:25 am

“Authoritarianism can be stopped,” Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, was saying, even though Weingarten was a…

Elon Musk kisses the ring

12 June 2025 4:21 am

“I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far,” Elon Musk wrote on X…

What caused the Ballymena riots?

12 June 2025 4:02 am

The County Antrim town of Ballymena endured a second night of rioting on Tuesday, as protestors aimed fireworks and missiles…

It’s no surprise that Prevent has gone to the dogs

12 June 2025 3:30 am

Conquest’s Second Law states that the behaviour of an organisation can best be predicted by assuming it’s controlled by a…

The spending review was 45 minutes I will never get back

12 June 2025 3:29 am

Rachel Reeves looked a little surprised at the cheers from the Labour benches that greeted her as she stood to…