World

Why Carlsberg left Russia

12 December 2024 2:39 am

Carlsberg, the brewing giant whose presence in Russia transformed that country’s beverage market, has left. What remains is the lingering…

Shame on the men exploiting Lily Phillips

12 December 2024 2:21 am

Lily Phillips, who had sex with 101 men in a single day in October, has hit the headlines, but the…

Watch: Farming chief weeps at Labour’s tax raid

12 December 2024 1:06 am

The public outrage at Labour’s family farm tax isn’t going away any time soon. Today farmers from across the country…

Starmer and Badenoch clash over immigration at PMQs

12 December 2024 12:15 am

Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch had quite an angry clash at today’s Prime Minister’s Questions. The Tory leader attacked on…

Javier Milei’s medicine is working

11 December 2024 11:51 pm

The economy would crash, the markets would be in open revolt, and he would swiftly be evicted from office by…

Is Humza Yousaf picking a fight with GB News?

11 December 2024 11:14 pm

Back to Scotland, where it appears hapless Humza Yousaf is still trying to stay relevant by going after, er, GB…

Labour’s planning reforms look like a way of punishing Tory voters

11 December 2024 10:56 pm

Is the government’s housing policy aimed principally at increasing the stock of homes and making them more affordable or at…

How Putin will make Assad pay for his exile

11 December 2024 10:46 pm

‘Brave Assad fled to Putin. Where will Putin flee?’ asked Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky after the Syrian dictator escaped embattled…

In defence of Connie Shaw

11 December 2024 7:32 pm

Here is a philosophical question for our universities to ponder. Should the ‘D’ in ‘EDI’ extend to diversity of opinion?…

Jolani has learnt from history

11 December 2024 5:34 pm

The victorious Syrian rebel leader now in control of Damascus has already learned a key lesson in history. After his…

Gaza independents to register new party

11 December 2024 5:45 am

There has been much focus in recent weeks on Reform’s potential impact on British politics. But a rival quintet of…

Stop idolising Luigi Mangione

11 December 2024 2:49 am

So according to the modern left, killing the fascists of Hamas is ‘genocide’, but killing a CEO and father of…

Watch: Independent MP opposes first cousin marriage ban

11 December 2024 1:51 am

To the Commons, where this afternoon a rather odd intervention took place. The Westminster rumour mill was in overdrive today…

Syria’s future is uncertain

11 December 2024 1:41 am

A momentous fortnight in the Levant. Following a negotiated ceasefire agreed in between Israel and Hezbollah bringing a fragile possibility…

Liz Truss tells Starmer how to beat ‘the blob’

11 December 2024 1:24 am

Poor old Keir Starmer. He has scarcely been in power for four months and yet is already wailing about ‘many…

Macron governs only for himself

11 December 2024 12:04 am

Emmanuel Macron will this afternoon host the leaders of France’s political parties as he searches for his fourth prime minister…

The one way Labour can end the era of mass migration

10 December 2024 11:07 pm

Fresh from heralding the arrest of a Turkish suspected rubber dinghy salesman last month, Keir Starmer’s government is today touting…

No, Bovaer won’t give you cancer

10 December 2024 10:54 pm

Were I given to conspiracy theories I would conclude that there must be a shady animal rights group conducting the…

Putin isn’t done yet with the Middle East

10 December 2024 10:51 pm

Ten years ago, Putin saved Bashar al-Assad from certain defeat. Russia’s intervention raised Putin’s profile in the Middle East, and…

Ex-Tory donor becomes Reform’s chief fundraiser

10 December 2024 10:24 pm

As the government’s fortunes continue to worsen, Reform UK only seems to be on the up. It now transpires that…

Will Rachel Reeves’s war on waste work?

10 December 2024 10:23 pm

How will the £40 billion additional tax revenue raised in the October Budget be spent? Efficiently, says the Chancellor this…

Assad’s fall is also a blow to Beijing

10 December 2024 10:17 pm

Russia and Iran kept Bashar al-Assad in power and are the biggest strategic losers from the toppling of his brutal…

David Lammy’s geography gaffe

10 December 2024 7:58 pm

It’s a gaffe a day with Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour lot – and this time David Lammy is in the…

Why Americans fear for Britain

10 December 2024 6:56 pm

As an American Anglophile, I find it difficult not to look upon the news emanating from Great Britain and despair.…

Iran’s axis is dying

10 December 2024 6:47 pm

From the hilltop viewpoint at Misgav Am, Israel’s northernmost kibbutz in the Upper Galilee, the view into southern Lebanon is…