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Will Trump strike a ‘final blow’ on Iran?
Will America’s ground invasion of Iran begin in the early hours of tomorrow? Everybody knows, by now, that Trump likes…
Will Nato regret snubbing Donald Trump?
On April 4, NATO will be 77 years old. The chance that America will be counted among the celebrants when…
Why Israel is carving out a buffer zone in Lebanon
IDF troops have continued to push further into southern Lebanon this week, encountering determined but not particularly effectual resistance from Hezbollah. But…
Rise of the leftist groypers
Last month, Ana Kasparian, executive producer of the progressive YouTube channel The Young Turks (6.5 million subs), tweeted out “Hey, bitch, the…
It’s too easy to blame Big Tech for parental neglect
If a child found Mr. Kipling cakes particularly addictive and began overindulging to the point of becoming overweight or unwell,…
There’s nothing merciful about Noelia Castillo’s death
This week, in Spain, a rape victim was killed by the state. A young woman in pain and despair was…
Reeves’s energy bailout risks solidifying Britain’s welfare trap
This week Rachel Reeves ruled out a blanket energy bailout to manage the fallout from the Iran war. That’s the…
Trump has shattered America’s ‘illusion of omnipotence’ in Iran
Donald Trump likes to use the phrase ‘go big or go home’ to describe his political strategy. It looks as…
Ed Miliband can’t keep blaming Iran for high energy costs
Sooner or later it is going to dawn on Ed Miliband and the rest of the government that anger over…
Sarah Mullaly makes me grateful to be a Catholic
Granted, I was not the most obvious person to appreciate the installation of Sarah Mullaly in Canterbury, even though I…
What McSweeney’s stolen phone says about modern Britain
If there were ever an event to describe our present moment, it would surely be the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s…
Why rabbit makes the best Easter lunch (yes, really)
Dissonance is necessary around Easter. Fluffy lambs and chicks are everywhere: on cards and decorations, in countless chocolate forms and…
Why Ukraine’s Russian oil strikes are backfiring
Every drone Ukraine fires at a Russian oil terminal is meant to defund Moscow’s war in Ukraine. Right now, each…
What do the White House’s cryptic X videos mean?
The White House X account has won notoriety as a coven of young memesters scandalizing the nation. There have been…
Don’t let doctors strike again
We are on the verge of yet another round of resident doctor strikes – the fifteenth in the dispute which…
How the Danish election backfired for the left
In the aftermath of the bitterly contested 2000 US presidential election, Bill Clinton famously commented: “the American people have spoken;…
Reform toast success of ‘Ipswich-gate’
An own goal or back-of-the-net? The pundit class are divided on Reform’s latest stunt, with Nigel Farage rocking up to…
Britain’s defence spending is lower than we thought
Whenever Keir Starmer and his ministers are pressed on the lack of a plan to raise Britain’s defence spending with…
Why is Britain so ill-equipped to deal with economic shocks?
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has just confirmed what we already knew: Britain will be hit harder…
Huw Edwards’s defenders owe the Sun an apology
I wasn’t wildly impressed with Channel Five’s dramatisation of the fall of Huw Edwards. But it should at least remind…
Reform’s Malcolm Offord is a hopeless party leader
At this point there is only one way to salvage Reform’s Scottish Parliament election campaign. Granted it’s unorthodox and, well,…
Suella Braverman’s ludicrous football intervention
Talking nonsense about football is a lucrative and growing business, hence the explosion in podcasts in which former players exchange…
What Hope not Hate doesn’t understand about liberal values
Even by its own recent standards, the latest investigation from the anti-extremism group Hope not Hate was fabulously, joyously, Rizla…
Don’t let AI read philosophy for you
The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) once wrote that “the man who feels himself drawn to philosophy must himself seek out…
There is nothing more embarrassing than a Davey-Starmer love-in
PMQs last week was embarrassing: not a single answer to a single question. The bar then was low – yet…
