World

The troubling truth about the Greens

8 June 2024 10:00 am

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?

8 June 2024 10:00 am

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

8 June 2024 10:00 am

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

8 June 2024 7:53 am

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

8 June 2024 7:33 am

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

8 June 2024 5:11 am

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

8 June 2024 4:14 am

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

8 June 2024 4:05 am

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?

8 June 2024 3:44 am

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

8 June 2024 12:59 am

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

8 June 2024 12:24 am

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?

8 June 2024 12:13 am

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’

7 June 2024 10:37 pm

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

7 June 2024 10:25 pm

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?

7 June 2024 10:24 pm

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

7 June 2024 10:12 pm

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

7 June 2024 9:18 pm

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

7 June 2024 8:42 pm

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

7 June 2024 7:27 pm

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

7 June 2024 7:14 pm

The Conservative party fought the 2019 general election with a manifesto commitment to establish a Royal Commission on Criminal Justice.…

Sunak apologises for leaving D-Day commemorations

7 June 2024 5:59 pm

Rishi Sunak has just apologised for missing the international D-Day event in Normandy to fly back early to the UK…

Why is Douglas Ross standing for parliament again?

7 June 2024 4:00 pm

Not content with being a referee and leader of the Tories in Scotland, Douglas Ross seems bent on making himself…

Joe Biden’s D-Day performance is evidence of his mental unfitness

7 June 2024 1:50 pm

President Joe Biden spoke in Normandy on the eightieth anniversary of D-Day Thursday — and only slightly made a fool of…

Why did Sunak leave the D-Day commemorations early?

7 June 2024 9:27 am

Politics took a back seat on Thursday as the great and good of the British establishment marked the 80th anniversary…

When did Gareth Southgate get quite so ruthless?

7 June 2024 3:30 am

Gareth Southgate, England’s semi-intellectual, waistcoat-strapped manager, knows he’s on his last chance at Euro 2024. He’s failed to bring a trophy home three…