World
It’s an unhappy birthday for King Charles
King Charles III turns 77 today. He will be enjoying a typically packed day, with activities both ceremonial and personal.…
Is MAGA cracking up?
In the year since his triumphant reelection, Donald Trump has racked up an enormous list of accomplishments, both foreign and…
Who do junior doctors think should fund their pay rise?
I know doctors have a long training and have to absorb a lot of knowledge before they are let loose…
Rachel Reeves rips up her Budget plans
With less than a fortnight to go until the Budget, it seems Rachel Reeves has performed an almighty U-turn. At…
Mini-Mamdani is (finally) new mayor of Seattle
Perhaps living in Seattle should inure you to shock. This is the city where, in the name of the George…
Is South Korea bracing for a third Trump-Kim summit?
Donald Trump’s meeting with President Xi was the standout moment of this month’s Asia-Pacific leaders’ summit in South Korea. Yet…
England football fans don’t know how good they’ve got it
England won its World Cup qualifier game again last night, this time against Serbia. And, once more, the Wembley reaction…
Junior doctors’ strikes are good for my wallet – but totally avoidable
Until Tuesday, I’m once again working as a junior doctor: trying to remember how to take blood, print labels, and…
Police and Crime Commissioners failed to hold useless officers to account
Few will mourn the loss of Police and Crime Commissioners following the news that the government intends their abolition in…
Labour is coming for your bicycle
As the recently departed Norman Tebbit would attest, there has long been a connection between bicycles and jobs, particularly for…
The attack on the Heritage Foundation is an attack on MAGA
It’s Thursday morning as I write. Has The Wall Street Journal weighed in with another attack on Kevin Roberts yet, the besieged president of the Heritage Foundation? No?…
Good riddance to Police and Crime Commissioners
So farewell then, Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs). The government has just announced that this weak and useless experiment in…
Will Disney strike a deal to end its YouTube TV blackout?
A war has taken over media coverage. No, not one of actual consequence. This war, however, is imminently affecting your…
Nuclear Anglesey is something to celebrate
On the Isle of Anglesey in North Wales sits Wylfa nuclear power station. For 44 years, until its final reactor…
The Epstein files continue to haunt Donald Trump
The main thing that has made the Epstein files seem politically (as opposed to morally) significant is that Donald Trump…
Has Rachel Reeves crashed the economy?
If Rachel Reeves was hoping for a glimmer of good news in today’s GDP figures, she has been left disappointed.…
Why does the American right take itself so seriously?
The American right has a problem: it can’t stop talking about itself. Commentators, academics and journalists of what used to…
A decade after Bataclan, France is more divided than ever
Ten years ago today, Islamist terrorists massacred 130 people in a coordinated attack across Paris. It was the heaviest loss…
Why Taiwan matters to Japan
It was only a matter of time before Japan’s Iron Lady would be targeted by China. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi…
Gavin Newsom flies to UN climate summit
“We’re in Brazil,” California Gavin Newsom said. “One of our great trading partners. One of the world’s great democracies. I…
The new Epstein Files are no smoking gun
The House Oversight Committee released some Jeffrey Epstein emails this morning, and, sure enough, Donald Trump is in the Epstein…
Polanski should be afraid of TikTok
There are few sights more unsettling than a politician trying to get ‘down with the kids’. Last week it was…
Will the prince formerly known as Andrew appear before Congress?
Amidst all the ceremony and gravity of Britain’s Remembrance Day service on Sunday, one salient fact could not be ignored.…
Keir Starmer can’t even commit governmental suicide
It’s not often the Prime Minister gets a derisive laugh from the House of Commons for telling them that he…
Inside the BBC’s impartiality meltdown
As I watched Tim Davie and Samir Shah’s all-staff call on Tuesday, I became increasingly bemused and frustrated. It was impossible…
