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Bibi has run rings around Trump
Donald Trump likes to see himself as the Great Negotiator but on this occasion Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, appears…
What will Iran do next?
‘They are scared. You can hear it in their voices,’ someone wrote to me on Friday from Tehran. And in…
Why the Israel-Iran war could raise your taxes
If Rachel Reeves is to have any chance of making it to her autumn budget without U-turns or raising taxes,…
What the army parade says about America
So the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the US Army will not be a day that will live infamy. Nor…
Grooming gangs inquiry is welcome, but too late
The announcement that there will, after all, be a statutory inquiry into the child rape and pimping gang scandal – euphemistically referred to as ‘grooming gangs’ – should…
Bristol museum’s trans exhibition is like something out of a cult
The Bristol Museum and Art Gallery is one of those places that makes me feel uncomfortable. I feel picked-on even…
AI is rotting our children’s minds
‘He’s more machine than man now’, complains Obi-Wan Kenobi of his notoriously fallen apprentice Darth Vader in Star Wars. The same thought…
Saudi Arabia’s soft power art attack
From roughly the 1970s to the mid-2010s, Saudi Arabia was the stuff of nightmares, referred to now, with understatement, as ‘the…
Does anyone really want AI civil servants?
Of course they’ve called it ‘Humphrey’. The cutesy name that has been given to the AI tool the government is…
Motability won’t give up its lucrative business without a fight
Motability, the scheme set up to provide vehicles, scooters and powered wheelchairs to disabled people, has become something of a…
How to be a better father
Children in this country are desperate for fathers to rise to the occasion. All the research indicates that a key…
This is Netanyahu’s Churchill moment
History may not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now finds himself in precisely…
On the ground at the President’s military parade
Washington, DC “Every other country celebrates their victories, it’s about time America did too,” Donald Trump told a whooping, albeit…
Minnesota is no longer the “state that works”
Fifty-two years ago, TIME magazine featured Governor Wendell Anderson on its cover, dressed in the state’s unofficial uniform of a…
Trump’s military parade is no show of strength
“This is a big day for America!!! DJT” wrote on his Truth Social account, kicking off the day of his…
Starmer agrees to grooming gangs inquiry
This evening, Keir Starmer has announced he does want a national inquiry on grooming gangs after all. The Prime Minister…
The British right is embracing direct action
First, it was Robert Jenrick tackling fare dodgers. Then it was Gareth Davies pursuing a thief. You might be forgiven…
Phillipson visits zero private schools in 11 months
It’s been quite the year for Bridget Phillipson. The under fire Education Secretary is now regularly tipped as one of…
Is Israel ready for a long war with Iran?
The spectacular Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear, missile and military sites and their commanders and scientists astonished the Israeli public…
Netanyahu wants to topple the Iranian regime
Last night, the Middle East witnessed its fiercest clash yet as Israel and Iran traded blows. A daring Israeli operation,…
Paul Johnson: The spending review was ‘incomprehensible’
Rachel Reeves’s spending review was the ‘most incomprehensible speech I’ve ever heard from a chancellor’, according to Paul Johnson of…
Iranian rockets will not dim Israel’s resolve
Tel Aviv, Israel Israelis last night once again found themselves seeking shelter as the Islamic Revolutionary forces in Iran launched…
We should rejoice in Trump’s military parade
Today, you can choose to follow your inner adolescent and search for one of the Soros-funded “No Kings” protests cropping…
David Beckham deserves his knighthood
Leonardo DiCaprio got his Oscar after 23 years. King Charles was crowned after 70 years. And now David Beckham will…
The post-Brexit Gibraltar deal is going down badly in Spain
Conservative and Reform politicians have denounced this week’s post-Brexit Gibraltar deal as a betrayal. ‘Gibraltar is British, and given Labour’s…
