World
The decline of the West: America’s Pacific cities face a bleak future
As recently as the early Nineties, when the great cities of the Midwest and East Coast were careening toward what…
Does tennis have a doping problem?
Is it more remarkable that Romanian two-time Grand Slam tennis champion Simona Halep took performance enhancing drugs, or that she was caught?…
Kamikaze drones are the future of warfare
The West is struggling to confront the modern military technologies of Russia, Iran and China. A year and a half…
Putin is resurrecting Russia’s ‘iron rogues’
A year before Russia launched its brutal campaign to subjugate Ukraine, I visited a wintry Moscow. It was striking to…
Nimbys and Greens are teaming up to block German wind farms
Germany’s Robert Habeck might well be an excellent children’s book author but he is proving to be a dismal economy…
Confessions of a dog hater
Rishi Sunak’s plan to ban American Bully XLs is welcome news for us dog haters. It’s long been said that…
The toxic prison attitude that can cost inmates their lives
David Morgan, a 35 year-old man, told staff he’d taken an overdose. A nurse decided the man seemed drunk and…
Why some men are obsessed with the Roman Empire
Why do men think about the Roman Empire so much? That’s the subject of a new social media trend, where…
How an American racing driver and war in Mongolia helped to defeat Hitler
Of all the ‘practice’ wars that preceded the main events of the second world war, including the Spanish civil war…
Why Iran’s opposition failed
Today marks the anniversary of the brutal slaying of 22-year old Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s so-called morality police…
The EU needs a coherent strategy on Russian sanctions
This week, the European Union opted to extend sanctions on some 1,800 Russian companies and individuals for another six months,…
Seven of the worst people in politics, according to Rory Stewart
If only more politicians were like Rory Stewart. That is pretty much the gist of his book Politics on the…
How museums lost their way
What’s the point of museums? According to researchers at the University of Leicester, museums should help children explore their gender…
Was Liz Truss wrong – or wronged?
A year ago, Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng had just announced that they would hold a mini-Budget. It turned out…
Don’t cry from pleasure: chef Ciccio Sultano’s Sicily
The Cerebrus heatwave is as fierce as they said it would be. I feel like I’m being microwaved on a…
The dangerous dog crackdown shouldn’t stop with banning Bully XLs
There isn’t much you can do in modern Britain without encountering some licensing scheme, but one area of life which…
Osborne, Balls and a glimpse of Westminster’s rotten culture
Podcast mania continues at Westminster. Discarded grandees from all parties have noticed the success of The Rest is Politics, the…
Britain is heading for an autumn of discontent
Train drivers will strike for two days in the coming weeks, on 30 September and 4 October. These dates are…
20mph isn’t plenty: the war on motorists has gone too far
‘Absolutely insane’ is the verdict of Penny Mordaunt MP on the Welsh government’s introduction of a 20mph speed limit on…
Champagne and America is a love story without end
From the beginning, Champagne has never been just a drink, or a region: it’s a celebration, an occasion, a trophy,…
In praise of Justin Welby’s ‘less bossy’ Church of England
Justin Welby is not my sort of Anglican. Or maybe he is, in a way. I’m not really sure who…
Why rugby fans love to hate Macron
Emmanuel Macron was in Lille on Thursday evening to watch France defeat Uruguay as the Bleus made it two wins…
The police can’t be trusted to track our e-bikes
In more innocent times, I’d have responded to the news that police wished to fit tracking devices to electric bicycles…
Hunter Biden indicted on gun charges
Hunter Biden, the ne’er-do-well son of the president, has been indicted by federal prosecutors on gun charges. Last night, a…
Beware the DoJ’s Hunter Biden distraction
You don’t need to be a political genius to see that this Hunter Biden indictment is an obvious smokescreen for…
