World
Will my generation still remember D-Day?
In the town of Sainte-Mère-Église, just inland of Utah Beach on the coast of Normandy, a crowd had gathered before…
Why Biden’s Gaza ceasefire proposal failed
Ceasefire deals to end the war in Gaza have come and gone. President Biden’s unexpected announcement of the latest formula…
French healthcare shows there’s another way for the NHS
Nigel Farage says the NHS ‘isn’t working’ and has suggested the UK adopt a French-style heathcare system. He’s evidently been…
Nigel Farage’s Tory manifesto
I’d say that Nigel Farage gave the best performance in last night’s debate. You might expect that: he’s a full-time…
Why was George Orwell a socialist?
When George Orwell’s publisher, Fredric Warburg, read the manuscript of Nineteen Eighty-Four in December 1948 he wrote a rapturous report to his…
The troubling truth about the Greens
Wind farms. Heat pumps. Hamas apologism. It’s a curious combination, but one that an alarmingly high number of Green party…
Can a government dating app solve Japan’s birth crisis?
The Tokyo metropolitan government has announced that it will soon be in the online matchmaking business. It is launching a…
A short history of cricket in Ukraine
Since the start of Vladimir Putin’s cold-blooded invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the stories and images being broadcast from the…
Nigel Farage will be disappointed by his BBC debate performance
It had been called the dinner party from hell. A seven-strong convention of the also rans. But only one dinner…
Mordaunt’s debate strategy was to pretend Farage wasn’t there
How is it possible that a seven-way debate between the main parties in this election was more civilised than the…
Farage has taken his D-Day attack on Sunak too far
It didn’t take long for Nigel Farage to record the inevitable attack video. ‘Rishi Sunak pops into Normandy but omits…
Watch: Galloway blasts ‘believers’ who support Labour
Oh dear. While Prime Minister Rishi Sunak struggles to fend off criticism about leaving Thursday’s D-day commemorations early, another party…
Sunak is out of touch, and always has been
Rishi Sunak says it was a ‘mistake’ to leave the 80th anniversary commemorations for D-Day early. That’s one way to…
Why are Europe’s progressives often intolerant?
For Robert Fico it was a bullet, for Nigel Farage it was a milkshake. The targeting of both men demonstrates the…
Nigel Farage’s biggest gift to the Labour party
Labour has a lot of reasons to be thankful for Nigel Farage. Reform was already creeping up on the Tories…
Hating Caitlin Clark for all the right reasons
Over the past two weeks, one of the biggest culture war conversations in America has had absolutely nothing to do…
How many more houses will Labour actually build?
Is Labour really going to help get 80,000 people on the housing ladder over the next five years under its…
Watch: Sunak grovels over D-day ‘mistake’
Oh dear. The story of the day may well become the story of the election campaign as Prime Minister Rishi…
Voters won’t forget Sunak’s D-Day snub
It’s hard to think of anything Rishi Sunak could have done that would cause greater offence to the British sensibility.…
Rishi Sunak is bad at politics. Who knew?
Everyone is finally noticing that Rishi Sunak is rubbish at politics. Given the scale of his faux pas in bailing…
Sunak’s D-Day departure was extraordinarily disrespectful
Rishi Sunak’s decision to leave Thursday’s 80th anniversary commemoration of D-Day in Normandy was extraordinary, stupid and disrespectful. He accompanied…
Backlash grows over Sunak’s D-Day mistake
When Rishi Sunak’s team were mapping out this week, Wednesday and Thursday were viewed to be non-political days as the…
Greens investigate ‘antisemitic’ candidate posts
As the general election date creeps ever closer, the Green party has found itself in hot water. It transpires that…
The Green party is terrifying
Is the Green party the most controversial force in British politics? It’s certainly giving Reform a run for its money. In…
The Tories don’t have a plan for the criminal justice system
The Conservative party fought the 2019 general election with a manifesto commitment to establish a Royal Commission on Criminal Justice.…
