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Why is Hollywood funding Just Stop Oil?

1 August 2024 4:00 pm

It will surprise no-one to learn that there is a trail of money which leads from climate protesters and their…

The pros and cons of a Trump-Harris debate

1 August 2024 5:15 am

Will Donald Trump and Kamala Harris face each other in a debate? Three months ago, Trump and his team agreed…

How many stars got the Huw Edwards case wrong?

1 August 2024 3:04 am

Dear oh dear. The news that ex-BBC presenter Huw Edwards has pleaded guilty to making indecent images of children has…

Condemning the Southport riot is not enough

1 August 2024 12:20 am

Will Southport’s suffering never end? First, the Merseyside town was rocked by the barbarism of a frenzied knife attack that…

Listen: BBC say Haniyeh considered a ‘moderate’ Hamas leader

31 July 2024 10:45 pm

Uh oh. The BBC has come under fire once again after listeners took umbrage with Radio 4’s news reporting this…

The inconvenient truth about ‘rewilding’

31 July 2024 10:11 pm

Angela Rayner has announced that the government will aim to build 370,000 new homes, up from the 300,000 a year…

Huw Edwards pleads guilty to making indecent images of children

31 July 2024 8:51 pm

Ex-BBC presenter Huw Edwards has pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children. The former TV star…

Does it matter if Kemi Badenoch was mean to civil servants?

31 July 2024 8:47 pm

Kemi Badenoch has been accused of being an unpleasant bully who targeted civil servants for unconscionable treatment. The allegations –…

Will Iran respond to Israel’s assassinations?

31 July 2024 8:40 pm

The Israelis were busy last night. First, Fouad Shukur, Hezbollah’s top military commander was, in the words of Israel’s defence…

Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro doesn’t like losing

31 July 2024 6:13 pm

There are sore losers and then there’s Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro. The socialist president has ruled the South American country for…

Hamas and Hezbollah leaders killed in strikes on Iran and Lebanon

31 July 2024 4:15 pm

Israel has been accused of killing Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a strike on Iran overnight. No one has claimed responsibility…

Just Stop Oil and the secret power of the middle class

31 July 2024 3:15 pm

Just Stop Oil isn’t what it was. When a handful of protestors from the environmental group tried to block a…

Even the Olympics can’t unite France

31 July 2024 3:00 pm

Writing of the state of France in the twilight of the fateful Second Empire, the left-wing journalist Henri Rochefort observed:…

The far-right threat to Israel’s democracy is growing

31 July 2024 2:45 pm

Israel is the only meaningful democracy in the Middle East. This is as true today as it was last week.…

What would Reagan make of Trump?

31 July 2024 2:30 pm

If the Donald Trump-JD Vance ticket is successful in November and the pair head to the White House, there is…

What I saw on the White Dudes for Harris Zoom call

31 July 2024 5:25 am

When I was a younger man, I found myself on the receiving end of a good bit of unsolicited advice…

Kemi Badenoch hits back at the Guardian

31 July 2024 4:44 am

Ding ding ding! The Tory leadership race is heating up, with the final six candidates now declared. But with Kemi Badenoch…

Labour’s private school VAT raid will stunt social mobility

31 July 2024 2:02 am

Following the announcement of Rachel Reeves’ spending cuts on Monday, the Treasury confirmed that VAT will be applied to private…

Labour’s war on beautiful housing

31 July 2024 1:43 am

Another day, another drama – and this time Sir Keir’s government is in the spotlight. In the National Planning Policy…

The Trump-Harris unpopularity contest

31 July 2024 1:29 am

Now that the Democrats have toppled the president in a bloodless coup, the bases of the Republican and Democratic parties…

Venezuelans topple Chávez statues as they reject Maduro victory

31 July 2024 12:50 am

Nicolás Maduro’s rival Edmundo González and opposition leader María Corina Machado told reporters at around 6:30 p.m. Monday that with…

No wonder the National Trust is bowing to climate activists

31 July 2024 12:16 am

Just like the Anglo-Saxons disastrously paying off the Viking marauders with Danegeld, so the National Trust has attempted to do…

The real reason Just Stop Oil target airports

31 July 2024 12:14 am

Just Stop Oil’s campaign to infuriate ordinary people has moved up a gear. After bringing traffic to a standstill and…

Can Israel hold back from all-out war with Hezbollah?

30 July 2024 11:50 pm

On 27 July, 12 children from the Druze community of the Golan Heights were slaughtered when an Iranian Falaq 1…

We’ve forgotten how to say ‘no’

30 July 2024 11:23 pm

It has been widely observed that we live in a society marked by cancellation, censorship and cowardice in the face…