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Will Labour cut ties with Dale Vince?
Good old Dale Vince is at it again. The eccentric eco-millionaire seems to be plagued by a bout of foot-in-mouth-disease –…
How many more memorial candles must Jews light?
Jews are big on candles. We light two candles every Friday night to welcome the Sabbath and we do the…
Did the Democrats kill Roomba?
Allow me to add an additional downer note to this grimmest of news days: iRobot, the company that manufactures Roombas,…
Why was this old man fined £250 for spitting out a leaf?
‘I celebrate myself, and sing myself,’ wrote Walt Whitman in his rhapsodic celebration of freedom, Leaves of Grass. ‘And what I…
Will bromance bloom between Trump and Jordan Bardella?
Life has never been so good for Jordan Bardella, the 30-year-old president of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally. A recent…
Bondi Beach and the heroism of Ahmed al Ahmed
As the appalling story of Sunday’s anti-Jewish mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach continue to unfold, and 16 people are…
Chile turns rightward
Chile has joined the right-wing trend sweeping Latin America by electing the ultra-conservative candidate Jose Antonio Kast as its first…
Why are world leaders shocked by the Bondi Beach attack?
Micheál Martin, Ireland’s Taoiseach, said he is shocked by the anti-Semitic slaughter on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Ursula von der Leyen,…
Why was this innocent doctor ever investigated for her ‘anti-trans’ posts?
This one has everything: drag queens, swastikas, X and freedom of speech. Dr Anne Woodhouse is a clinical psychologist in…
What Zack Polanski gets wrong about immigration
One of the most common arguments made by those with a liberal approach to immigration and asylum, and one you…
What Australia’s tabloids make of England’s Ashes failure
No doubt even the cricket averse among you will be aware at some level that the England team is currently…
Why did Robin Ince have to leave The Infinite Monkey Cage?
It was with mild pleasure that I read of the decision of Robin Ince to end his association with the…
The Bondi beach shooting was a pogrom
This is not a time to mince words. Moral clarity is our sole duty on this dark day. What happened…
Sunday shows round-up: terror in Australia
As Trevor Phillips began his Sky News show this morning, news broke of a mass shooting at Bondi beach in…
Australia must be purged of its festering anti-Semitism
It breaks my heart to write this piece. Today, the resurgence of anti-Semitism that has percolated and festered in Australia…
For Jews, the Bondi beach shooting is grimly recognisable
The attack at Bondi beach during a Hanukkah celebration, killing nine, has sent a fresh wave of horror through the…
The strange world of ‘2D exclusive’ Japanese women
For those trying to understand Japan’s plummeting birthrate – which some fear could eventually lead to Japanese people ceasing to exist…
Zohran Mamdani begins radicalizing New York
The radicals are now in charge of NYC. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has unveiled his transition team and voters who agreed…
How Russia’s National Guard may stymie the latest Ukraine plan
One of the crucial obstacles to a Ukraine peace deal appears to be Vladimir Putin’s demand for the remaining fifth…
The care system isn’t built for Afghan teenagers
The sentencing this week of Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal for the rape of a 15-year-old girl in Leamington Spa…
Pablo Escobar’s hippos are saving Colombia’s wetlands
In Colombia’s enormous Magdalena River basin, an ecological anomaly has triggered an extraordinary debate among ecologists. Ought some invasive species…
The story of the Battle of Blood River
Johannesburg, the wealthiest city in Africa and home to more than 12,000 millionaires is about to become a ghost town.…
The long, awful shadow of the siege of Sarajevo
They call them the roses of Sarajevo: scars ripping through the concrete and painted red, marking where an artillery round…
Gen Z can’t cope with the real world
Everyone recognises that teenagers today are unduly anxious. Many people attribute this to a rise in smartphone use. Some even…
How the ‘deep state’ enabled Epstein to operate
How do characters like Jeffrey Epstein come about, really? One way to find out is to read his emails, 20,000…
