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What was missing from the 7/7 commemorations
Something was scarce, if not absent, in the commemorations of the 7/7 Islamist attacks yesterday, and that is the fact…
Britain’s parliament doesn’t need to hear from Emmanuel Macron
If ever a French president needed a state visit to Britain, it is Emmanuel Macron. All the pomp and ceremony…
Period talk needs to stop. Period
When the supermodel Brooks Nader’s period started at Wimbledon, naturally she turned to social media. ‘Tries to be chic. Starts…
Elon Musk is America’s dumbest smart person
Anyone who has perambulated through the groves of academe has encountered dumb smart people. They are clever, intellectually nimble, but they…
Tucker tosses softballs to Iran
“I didn’t ask hard questions because I knew I wouldn’t get an honest answer,” said Tucker Carlson, our edgelord Barbara…
RFK Jr. faces down M&M’s
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may have finally met his match: the green M&M. Mars, which manufactures various popular candies including…
Can Trump get Netanyahu to end the war in Gaza?
Benjamin Netanyahu has landed in Washington for talks with Donald Trump about the war in Gaza. These, combined with Israel-Hamas…
The ghost of Liz Truss haunts parliament
Today’s Urgent Question in the House of Commons about the state of the economy was dominated by two people who…
We’ll never know the truth about Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, he did his sex crimes in private and no one who associated with him – much less visited his…
Must we forgive the 7/7 bombers?
‘Bear in mind these dead, I can find no plainer words,’ wrote the Northern Irish poet John Hewitt reflecting on…
Was Easter Island less isolated than we previously thought?
It’s hard to exaggerate how isolated Easter Island was before its discovery by Polynesian sailors eight or nine centuries ago.…
There’s one thing readers enjoy more than a story like The Salt Path
Only last week, I was having lunch when The Salt Path came up in conversation. ‘That’s the one about the…
In defence of Wimbledon’s AI line judge
Does anything work in Broken Britain? You’d be forgiven for wondering when even during our most prestigious sporting tournaments the…
Don’t politicize the Texas flood
It’s early Monday morning here in Central Texas, and the rain just keeps on falling. Over the wettest weekend any…
The UN has become the Taliban’s lapdog
Britain and other western nations have abandoned the women of Afghanistan in pursuit of a UN programme of engagement with…
Don’t trust Starmer to fend off the SEND rebels
Keir Starmer’s government is heading for trouble – again. Last time it was welfare reform, now it’s SEND (special educational…
Has Labour abandoned the steel industry?
We will no doubt hear lots of familiar excuses if later this week, as seems increasingly likely, the British steel…
Brighton council leader reports Rod Liddle to the police
It seems that some people really can’t take a joke… In the magazine this week, Rod Liddle wistfully contemplated the…
Zohran Mamdani wouldn’t mock his own faith
Zohran Mamdani is defensive about his faith and has maintained that his culture is “not a costume.” Why then, New…
Australia’s fascination with the ‘mushroom murders’ must end
After an eight-week trial followed avidly around Australia and the world, and a week’s jury deliberation, Australia’s answer to Lucrezia…
The decline of the fact checkers is something to celebrate
For some years now, one of the greatest worries among a certain coterie has been that of ‘misinformation’. This is…
Kemi: Farage is a ‘bullshitter’
What a week it has been in British politics. After the welfare rebellion on Tuesday and then the shambles of…
Could Hebron join the Abraham Accords?
You’ve heard of the two-state solution (or delusion, as I call it). But have you heard of the eight-state solution?…
History does not favour Musk’s new America party
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has announced that he intends to create a new third party in the US…
Why Trump stopped calling on Iran to ‘surrender’
When Donald Trump called on Iran’s Ayatollah to “surrender” during Israel’s recent war the word struck many as jarring –…
