World

Not even America’s legal system can stop Trump

7 November 2023 7:04 pm

‘I beseech you to control him if you can,’ Justice Arthur Engoron. told Donald Trump’s lawyer in court yesterday. To which the…

What did we really learn from Dominic Cummings’s leaked WhatsApps?

7 November 2023 6:00 pm

It’ll be years before the Covid inquiry reports back on what we can learn from the pandemic, but already there…

Rishi Sunak’s Oliver Dowden problem

7 November 2023 5:00 pm

Margaret Thatcher was said to have once remarked that every prime minister needed a Willie. Given that humour was not…

How contentious will the King’s Speech be?

7 November 2023 4:57 pm

This morning King Charles will take part in the state opening of parliament for the first time as monarch. The…

The Met’s strange approach to protest

7 November 2023 3:44 am

Demonstrations against Israel, some attracting many thousands of people, have become a regular occurrence. We have grown used to the…

Is the Met doing all it can to control the Palestine protests?

7 November 2023 3:07 am

The Metropolitan police force is falling apart before our eyes. With it is going our sense of safety and security…

The danger of Hamas drone attacks

7 November 2023 1:23 am

The rise of the combat drone is changing the nature of the battlefield, as Israel has already found to its…

Why won’t Gary Lineker call out the fascism of Hamas? 

7 November 2023 12:07 am

One of the most curious things following Hamas’s massacre of the Jews on 7 October was the silence of Britain’s…

In defence of ‘rip-off’ airline charges

6 November 2023 11:46 pm

The Conservative party is 25 points behind in the polls. Its backbenchers are scrambling around to find new jobs, and…

The trouble with Olaf Scholz

6 November 2023 11:37 pm

German chancellor Olaf Scholz still doesn’t get it. ‘Der Fisch stinkt vom Kopf’ (the fish stinks from its head) is…

Will Rishi Sunak’s electric car targets backfire?

6 November 2023 11:18 pm

Rishi Sunak was attacked by the green lobby for delaying the outright ban on new petrol and diesel cars from…

Next year’s US election promises a crisis

6 November 2023 8:50 pm

There’s only a year to go until the most complex and consequential US presidential election ever. Ukraine, the Middle East,…

Israel is in a race against time to defeat Hamas

6 November 2023 8:24 pm

The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) declared last night that Gaza has been encircled and divided into two separate parts: north…

What can be done about AI porn?

6 November 2023 6:31 pm

The foul-mouthed puppet musical Avenue Q, way back in 2003, caught the spirit of the age to come. ‘The internet is…

Is the West losing interest in Ukraine?

6 November 2023 5:30 pm

There’s a very different tone coming from Kyiv these days. Speaking to Time magazine, Volodymyr Zelensky had just returned from Washington…

Are we diluting the meaning of ‘mental health’?

6 November 2023 5:25 pm

What does ‘mental health’ mean? Is the answer to that question undergoing a generational change, as younger people become more…

Oliver Dowden: I have ‘grave concerns’ about Armistice day marches

5 November 2023 11:55 pm

As the conflict in Gaza continues, there is increasing division over the crisis here in the UK. Keir Starmer continues…

Watch: Michael Crick versus GB News

5 November 2023 11:07 pm

Some compulsory weekend viewing from GB News. The channel invited veteran broadcaster Michael Crick onto Neil Oliver’s show yesterday to…

To win, Israel must destroy the labyrinth of Hamas tunnels

5 November 2023 10:51 pm

As Israeli forces continue to push into Gaza they face threats from Hamas terrorists who use a network of tunnels…

The anarchy of bonfire night

5 November 2023 9:15 pm

Bonfire night festivities in Britain today are increasingly highly choreographed events: council-sponsored firework displays mounted by professional companies, sponsored by…

Hamas and the narcissism of the progressive left

5 November 2023 7:41 pm

A prominent member of Hamas’s political bureau has been causing something of a stir on the internet in recent days.…

Benjamin Netanyahu is a dangerous ally for the left

5 November 2023 6:18 pm

There is no better example of modern pseudo-sophistication than the dismissal of the argument in the Labour party about a ceasefire…

The long and bloody history of tunnel warfare

5 November 2023 5:56 pm

Tunnel fighting has always been a problem. As Israel battles in Gaza against some 5,000 Hamas fighters embedded in buildings,…

Putin is scraping the barrel with ‘glide bombs’ in Ukraine

5 November 2023 5:00 pm

It’s not easy to say this, but Ukraine’s offensive to retake lost territory has fizzled out. Autumnal weather has turned…

The cultural appropriation of the keffiyeh

4 November 2023 6:00 pm

I’ve never been sorry that I left education at 17, armed with nothing but my raw talent and splendid rack.…