World

India’s ‘murder’ spat with Canada has come at the worst time

15 October 2024 5:38 pm

The alleged involvement of agents of a foreign government in the murder of a citizen is a crime that violates…

Australia’s republicans are embarrassing themselves over King Charles’s visit

15 October 2024 5:00 pm

Australia, where King Charles will return to on Friday, is where the monarch became a man. In 1966, Charles had…

Tim Davie and the death of BBC ‘talent’

15 October 2024 4:57 pm

Has anyone ever come up with a better put-down for Nick Robinson? It is even better that it came from…

Thank God for Elon Musk

15 October 2024 4:00 pm

Like many people this weekend, I couldn’t tear myself away from videos of the booster rocket of Elon Musk’s Starship…

Israel’s murder problem

15 October 2024 3:36 pm

A wave of violence is convulsing Israeli society. It’s not caused by Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthi, or Iranian attacks. Instead, it’s…

Is Kemi Badenoch scared of Robert Jenrick?

15 October 2024 5:22 am

Is Kemi Badenoch running scared? It’s not an accusation often levelled at the shadow housing secretary, who is usually criticised…

Tories try to hammer Labour on freebies

15 October 2024 5:09 am

It seems that one of the great posts in British politics has been filled at last. The title of ‘Minister…

Will Labour keep its promise not to hike National Insurance?

15 October 2024 4:42 am

Despite getting off to a rocky start – including nearly losing £1 billion worth of investment – Labour’s much-anticipated Investment…

Watch: ‘Apparatus of state turned on Alex Salmond’, fumes David Davis

15 October 2024 4:25 am

Heartfelt tributes were paid to the late Alex Salmond in the Commons today. A number of politicians from across the…

SpaceX has put Europe to shame

15 October 2024 3:31 am

The flawless launch of SpaceX’s 5,000-ton Starship and its Super Heavy Booster, and the precision recovery of the booster on…

Five flops from Labour’s investment summit

15 October 2024 2:48 am

It’s investment summit day for Sir Keir’s Labour government and, like much else about Starmer’s reign, it hasn’t got off…

Brwa Shorsh and the failure of Britain’s asylum system

15 October 2024 2:12 am

Postman Tadeusz Potoczek had completed his deliveries for the day. At around 3 p.m. on 3 February, the 60-year-old was…

Beeb investigated MasterChef star over alleged sexual remarks

15 October 2024 1:30 am

These days, it seems the Beeb is better at being the news than making it. Now the co-host of BBC…

Kamala Harris’s ‘Joe Biden’ problem

15 October 2024 12:28 am

As Hurricane Milton battered Florida last week, Kamala Harris did her best to look and sound presidential. The Vice President…

The fatal allure of Hitler’s favourite mountain

15 October 2024 12:24 am

‘The hills are alive,’ warbled Julie Andrews as she strode through a verdant Alpine mountain meadow, ‘with the sound of…

The discovery of Irvine’s boot on Everest raises more questions than answers

14 October 2024 11:48 pm

Andrew Comyn ‘Sandy’ Irvine disappeared while attempting to climb Everest in June 1924 with his partner George Mallory. For a…

Even the BBC’s critics should want to protect the World Service

14 October 2024 11:34 pm

When Tim Davie, the director-general of the BBC, addresses the Future Resilience Forum in London this afternoon, he has a…

Who is slipping through Europe’s porous borders?

14 October 2024 10:38 pm

In the same week that over 1,000 migrants arrived in England, the head of MI5 admitted his agency had ‘one…

Lammy’s EU brag backfires

14 October 2024 9:39 pm

To Luxembourg, where David Lammy is making headlines yet again. The Foreign Secretary has today bragged about his attendance at…

Is Labour’s Britain really an investor’s paradise?

14 October 2024 8:33 pm

So, is it really time in invest in Britain, as the heads of fourteen banks and other financial institutions have…

Why isn’t Elon Musk at Starmer’s investment summit?

14 October 2024 8:01 pm

Happy summit day, one and all. Today is the new Labour government’s first big business bash, as proceedings kick off…

Can Lebanon ever be free of Hezbollah?

14 October 2024 6:59 pm

Lebanon is teetering on the edge of a seismic political shift, facing increasing pressure both from internal factions and external…

Hezbollah’s drone strike won’t deter Israel’s campaign

14 October 2024 6:28 pm

Last night, a single Hezbollah drone managed to inflict more damage on Israel than 200 Iranian ballistic missiles so far.…

Braverman’s Cambridge cancellation exposes the campus free speech crisis

14 October 2024 5:23 pm

Anti-fascism ain’t what it used to be. It used to mean signing up to go to fight Franco’s fascists in…

Labour were right to protect Taylor Swift

14 October 2024 5:00 pm

Still making headlines, it seems, is one of the more trivial scandals to have dogged the Labour government in its…