World
Is the ‘woke’ movement really over?
‘I was with some doctors last week who said there is no such thing as biological sex.’ It sounds like…
Britain urgently needs an Antarctica strategy
Now that a deal has been struck with Mauritius over the Chagos Islands, the government’s focus should be on the…
Why is your pension fund so obsessed with net zero?
Legal & General is Britain’s largest asset manager, with over £1 trillion on its books. Every pound it manages should…
Disposable vapes are fantastic. Naturally, they’re demonised
Forty a day for forty years – that’s a hell of a lot of cigarettes – but je ne regret rien.…
No, Zoomers: life wasn’t better before the internet
Almost half of 16 to 21-year-olds wish they had grown up without the internet. A similar portion are even calling…
Why President Trump shouldn’t pardon Derek Chauvin
Five years ago this month, anarchists set on fire my adopted town of Minneapolis in the wake of Derek Chauvin’s…
Israel faces a brutal choice
For months, Israel has faced a relentless barrage of criticism over its conduct in Gaza – from western governments, UN…
Zelensky is in an impossible position
The Ukrainian president said this week he hopes the war will end by next June. Not this summer. Not this…
The Met’s ‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style’ is equally horrifying and inspiring
One of the first pieces exhibited in Superfine: Tailoring Black Style – The Met’s annual spring Costume Institute exhibition –…
Where have all the Japanese tourists gone?
Is the Japanese tourist, for so long in good numbers a welcome and reliable fixture at our most famous tourist…
Tommy Robinson and the truth about jail beards
When Tommy Robinson walked out of prison this week, he was unrecognisable. The far-right activist, who was jailed for contempt…
What’s wrong with using Xenon to climb Everest?
Reaching the top of the world and returning to London within a week without so much as stopping for a…
Britain needs to reindustrialise
In recent years, governments looking for good news on growth have sounded increasingly desperate, like a doctor looking for signs…
Can Scotland learn to love Farage?
There’s not much that’s green in Larkhall, Scotland. So staunchly Protestant unionist is the ex-mining town in South Lanarkshire that…
Israel is going too far
I have kept my silence on the Middle East for ten years. I left Israel in 2015, after five years…
Why shouldn’t vegans be catered for in an apocalypse?
You know you’ve arrived when professors start thinking about how to look after you during a major emergency. As a…
Did No. 10 clear Lord Hermer’s ‘Nazi jibe’ speech?
Another day, another bit of bad press for the Labour party. Attorney General Lord Hermer sparked outrage when he compared…
Trump bids Elon ‘the DoGEfather’ farewell
Sporting a black eye and a shirt with the words “The DoGE Father” on the chest, Elon Musk joined President…
I Dream of Lamu
An hour after the propeller plane lifts away from Wilson, Nairobi’s regional airport, it is arching over the blues and…
Melania Trump is phoning it in
There’s something admirable about Melania Trump’s commitment to doing absolutely nothing. While America obsesses over her husband’s latest provocations, the…
Dan Patrick’s war on weed gummies could endanger Texas Republicans
In a press conference that veered into awkward sketch comedy in Austin, Texas, yesterday, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick railed at…
Why Gen Z is converting to Catholicism
Both of my parents are Jewish, as were theirs, going as far back as anybody remembers – probably to Abraham.…
Why do police accept criminal drug use?
Another day, another sign of the British state’s acceptance of criminality. This time it’s the news that almost half of people caught…
It’s the last chance for levelling up
‘The policymakers that live in London and stuff, they don’t really care about a small town like Rochdale. I just…
Lord Hermer is preposterously wrong about international law
Lord Hermer KC has done it again. Delivering RUSI’s annual security lecture this week, the Attorney General set out to…
