World
This is what a ‘multipolar’ world looks like. It’s chaos
The Hamas terror attack has triggered war in Gaza, a geopolitical crisis and now – from Sydney to New York…
Is Israel ready for a full-scale invasion of Gaza?
Israel is likely to need every one of the 300,000 soldiers it is amassing on the border with Gaza if,…
Do Jewish Lives Matter too?
For more than a year, English footballers took the knee in solidarity with a petty criminal who was murdered by…
Is Israel’s siege of Gaza illegal?
In retaliation to over a thousand Israeli dead, the country’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has vowed to besiege Gaza. In a statement…
Why should British Jews take their skullcaps off?
I was proud when my son, then aged three, wore his kippa (Jewish skullcap) for the first time. We placed…
The winners and losers of this year’s conference season
Conference season 2023 is done and dusted, with punchy Wes Streeting having performed the final significant act yesterday via his…
No wonder Britain’s prisons are almost full
It’s finally happened. Our prisons are almost full. Last night the Times reported that ‘Lord Justice Edis, the senior presiding…
Britain’s sluggish growth is nothing to celebrate
So, the doomsters have been proved wrong again – not least the Bank of England, which a year ago forecast…
The desperate plight of Humza Yousaf’s relatives, trapped in Gaza
Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf has his flaws as a politician but when it comes to the brutal attacks on…
Putin has been blindsided by the Israel attack
Inevitably, some have tried to suggest the terrorist invasion of Israel was in some ways orchestrated by Moscow. ‘Russia is…
Will the ‘Al-Aqsa flood’ unite the Islamic world?
The name of Hamas’ deadly terrorist attack on Israel over the weekend, the ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’, was deliberately chosen to galvanise…
Do social housing residents really age slower?
Great news. Living in a damp home can help you live longer. Admittedly, I am not all that convinced, but…
Another nude Biden pic scandal?
There’s something about mirrors and cameras that the Biden men just can’t seem to resist — they are compelled to…
Harvard’s shameful response to the Hamas attacks
Harvard university is at the centre of an unprecedented backlash after some of its students released an inflammatory statement claiming…
The Middle East’s new grandmasters
On Monday, while IDF troops were clearing the last Hamas terrorists from Israeli communities near the Gaza border, Benjamin Netanyahu…
What happened to ‘Never again’?
For Jews everywhere, there was an eery familiarity about the terrible violence unleashed on Israel during Saturday’s attack by Hamas.…
Football’s shameful silence on Israel’s tragedy
Few top-flight football matches these days kick off without an expression of solidarity with a cause or condolence. Along with…
Labour is already tearing itself apart. How would it cope in government?
Keir Starmer’s chances of becoming the UK’s next prime minister seem to be improving by the day. From a huge win…
The kids are running the classroom
The Democratic Party is in a state of rhetorical paralysis. This weekend, as Palestinian terrorists streamed across the Israeli border,…
RFK goes it alone in Philadelphia
Had you blindfolded me yesterday morning, led me to the front lawn of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, removed…
Keir Starmer looks ready for an election
The stage invasion at the start of Keir Starmer’s speech was a total failure for the protestor who carried it…
For too long, the UN has been gripped by Israelophobia
It is something of an understatement to say that there has been no shortage of shocking posts on social media…
Why aren’t ‘anti-fascists’ condemning the tide of anti-Semitism?
I have a question about the events of the past few days: where is Antifa? Where are those self-styled anti-fascists…
Qatar, Hamas and the West’s shameful silence
The political class in France have rounded on Jean-Luc Mélenchon for his failure to condemn Hamas’s attack against Israel. The…
Starmer’s house-building plan could prove a hit with young voters
The biggest hinderance for the Conservatives is that they have nothing to offer young voters. The Labour party, however, just might.…
