World
Police are in a muddle over transgender strip searches
Have you ever been strip searched? I have. The date it happened – 7 September 2020 – is etched on…
Australia sees sense on its plan to ditch the monarchy
Australia’s government has been determined to ‘do a Barbados’ and ditch the British monarchy for an Australian republic with an…
Watch: Trump mocks Macron’s accent
Emmanuel Macron is facing something of a crisis at home: his prime minister has resigned and his party is trailing…
TV trigger warnings are out of control
The warnings on what we now call ‘content’ (i.e. what we used to know as films and TV shows) are…
Could Idris Elba’s solution help tackle knife crime?
Actor Idris Elba took to the airwaves on the Today programme this morning to call for more to be done…
How Sheikh Hasina is turning Bangladesh autocratic
Politics in Bangladesh is very much a one-woman show, starring prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who has ruled the country for…
Why Anas Sarwar is succeeding
Few politicians had a better 2023 than Anas Sarwar. The Scottish Labour leader began last year with his party still…
Did the fight over slavery cause the Civil War?
Nikki Haley reignited the battle over the cause of the Civil War. Today’s racial protocol requires a reflexive one-word answer:…
Is a new front about to open up in Israel’s war?
Two days after the Israel Defence Forces announced that it had dismantled Hamas’s ‘military framework’ in the northern Gaza Strip,…
Parents should share blame for plummeting school attendance
Is school optional nowadays? Last year, 140,000 children were classed as ‘severely absent’ from the classroom, a rise of 134…
Lloyd Austin’s medical mystery scandal
Questions are growing over who knew what, and when, about the hospitalization of the defense secretary Lloyd Austin, the most senior…
The unbearably smug spectacle of the Golden Globes
Does anybody actually watch televised Hollywood award shows anymore unless, like me, they’re being paid to? Until ‘The Incident’ at…
What’s the truth about the US defence secretary’s mystery illness?
Questions are growing over who knew what, and when, about the hospitalisation of the American Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, the most…
The depressing world of influencers
Walid Sharks is taking a nasty beating at the AO Arena in Manchester. It’s the second round of his fight…
Theresa May gets her Brexit dividend
There’s nothing so ex as an ex-Prime Minister. But while the likes of Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and David Cameron…
The Post Office scandal was too boring for politicians to fix
The government is now ‘under pressure’ over the Post Office Horizon IT scandal. The pressure comes in the form of…
Fact check: Sunak’s ‘tax cut’ claims
Rishi Sunak seems to have a New Year’s resolution: to claim that taxes are falling and say it so often…
Does the Prime Minister believe in the Rwanda scheme?
Does Rishi Sunak believe in Rwanda? An election year has begun, with Rishi Sunak still struggling in the polls and…
What do Munroe Bergdorf and Andrew Tate have in common?
For inadequate men scared by self-willed women, by the start of the 21st century, things were getting dangerously out of hand. The old right-wing ‘Kinder, Küche,…
Russia’s egg shortage is panicking Putin
The fall of the house of the Romanovs in 1917 may have been a long time coming, but arguably it…
Keir Starmer says it best when he says nothing at all
There is a modern country music standard called ‘When You Say Nothing At All’. The song, taken to the top…
Why German farmers are taking on the ruling coalition
He wanted to get away from it all. The splendid solitude of the tiny North Sea island of Hooge was…
Is Japan finally embracing immigration?
Japan has long been known for its steadfast refusal to submit to the allure of large-scale immigration, as a country…
The dark side of Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina
Politics in Bangladesh is very much a one-woman show, starring prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who has ruled the country for…
Why hasn’t Russia collapsed?
Following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the calamitous, early missteps of the Russian army, many Western…
