World
Why does the BBC think Afghan men are selling their daughters?
If you heard that a man was thinking about selling his seven-year-old daughter into marriage or domestic servitude, who would…
Labour hasn’t won the battle for Britain’s borders. Far from it
Where the Tories failed on controlling Britain’s borders, letting net migration surge to an unprecedented 944,000 in the year to…
How Disney spoiled Star Wars
This week, the new Star Wars movie – the first live action film since 2019’s commercially successful but largely ridiculed…
The tide has turned in Ukraine
The long war in Ukraine has morphed into a new and decisive phase, one that could lead to Ukraine’s upset…
Kim Leadbeater’s fresh assisted dying push
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. After her Private Members’ Bill to enact Assisted Dying fell in…
Britain and Germany are failing to learn from each other’s mistakes
Wes Streeting wants to take Britain back towards the European Union. Or at least closer to it – close enough…
The youth unemployment crisis is Starmer’s legacy
When Labour MPs eventually hoof Keir Starmer out of office, the Prime Minister and his neighbour in No. 11 will…
London doesn’t deserve Dawn Butler as mayor
As if the Labour party hasn’t inflicted enough damage on London, Dawn Butler, the staggeringly inept MP for Brent East,…
Andy Burnham is making Keir Starmer look good at politics
One of the many complaints levied against Keir Starmer is that he is fundamentally bad at politics; he doesn’t know…
My strange beef with rapper Azealia Banks
It’s always fun when worlds collide – when two people whose paths should rightfully never intersect smash into one another…
Who is the real Andy Burnham?
There’s an old joke about Andy Burnham that has been recycled since he started making eyes at No. 10. A…
Immigration control has been the bright spot of Trump’s second term
Parts of the MAGA movement are unhappy with President Trump’s migration strategy. The administration has softened its policy on deportations…
Why Trump is wobbling on restarting the Iran war
Donald Trump was for the Iran war before he was against it. His latest post on social media about the conflict indicated that…
Middlemarch is overrated
Middlemarch, which a Guardian poll of ‘experts’ has named as the best novel ever, is overrated. I enjoyed reading it when I…
Burnham will soon slam into reality
‘Politics needs to change,’ Andy Burnham, our presumptive next prime minister, told the ‘Great North Summit’ in Leeds this afternoon.…
Did ‘millions’ attend Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom rally?
The Metropolitan Police were braced for one of the “busiest days for policing in London in recent years” on Saturday,…
Labour has bequeathed us a summer of nonsense
The Great North summit sounds like it should have been a peace conference attended by Peter the Great. Instead, it…
Lee Anderson takes over as Reform chairman
There has been a reshuffle at Reform towers today. Lee Anderson will be adding the role of chairman to his…
‘Save Chagos’ push launched in Lords
It is just over four weeks since the government was forced to pause its attempted handover of the Chagos Islands,…
Fining parents for their children’s crimes misses the point
Justice Secretary David Lammy is planning an overhaul of the youth justice system that would see the parents of young…
Has Brexit really harmed Britain’s economy?
The Labour top brass jostling to replace Keir Starmer have all indicated that they want to reverse the Brexit referendum in some…
Who’s backing whom for Labour leader?
While a Labour leadership race is not yet technically underway, shadow campaigns have certainly begun. Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham…
Donald Trump and the delusion at the heart of the EU
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz suggests to a classroom full of youngsters that Donald Trump has been “humiliated” by his war…
The problem with the Guardian’s top 100 books list
The Guardian has asked a panel of authors and critics to nominate their favourite novels to make up a ‘Top 100’,…
The EU is in terminal decline. Why would Britain rejoin?
Wes Streeting believes it was a ‘catastrophic mistake’ for Britain to leave the EU. If he becomes prime minister, Streeting…
