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Who is responsible for the BBC’s Gaza documentary debacle?

22 February 2025 4:31 pm

In 2007, the BBC was engulfed in scandal for an embarrassing – if relatively trivial – misrepresentation of Queen Elizabeth…

Europe must be stronger, or it will die

22 February 2025 4:30 pm

Over the last weeks, the words and actions of the Trump administration have caused the biggest rift between the United…

Sydney Smith’s love for life lives on

22 February 2025 4:00 pm

Why should anyone care about Sydney Smith, who died on this day in 1845? 180 years have diminished the stature…

The case for moving SOUTHCOM back to Panama

22 February 2025 9:42 am

The recent American interest in the Panama Canal is grounded and rational — contrary to media characterizations of the renewed focus…

Zakynthos: then and now

22 February 2025 8:16 am

“You just missed Chris Hoy. He was here leading cycle rides over the summer,” the Peligoni Club’s receptionist informed me…

Hamas’s final torment of the Bibas family

22 February 2025 12:39 am

So Hamas has committed yet another act of depravity against the Bibas family. It said Shiri Bibas was in one…

Why Trump doesn’t see Putin as a real threat

21 February 2025 9:33 pm

It turns out that Harold Wilson’s famous quote, ‘A week is a long time in politics’, is equally applicable to…

The online shopping boom is well and truly over

21 February 2025 7:30 pm

So much for ‘dry’ and ‘no buy’ January. The UK public seems to have thoroughly rebelled against efforts to persuade…

Has Rachel Reeves broken her fiscal rules?

21 February 2025 6:55 pm

Rachel Reeves is having to borrow more money than even the worst estimates expected. Figures on the public finances, published…

The shame of Big Energy’s £3.9 billion profit windfall

21 February 2025 5:57 pm

It is one of the world’s great mysteries: if wind and solar energy are supposed to be so cheap then…

The hard truth about Britain’s armed forces

21 February 2025 5:00 pm

There is something ironic about the fact that just as Donald Trump has made it clear that Europe needs to…

Christoph Heusgen is just another arrogant boomer

21 February 2025 4:30 pm

Historians will look back on the tears of Christoph Heusgen as a defining moment of the early 21st century. When the…

Is the Amazon version of James Bond doomed?

21 February 2025 9:45 am

So at last the deadlock has been broken. After months, even years, of tension between Amazon MGM, who own the…

Elon Musk wields chainsaw at impromptu CPAC appearance

21 February 2025 9:44 am

National Harbor, Maryland Elon Musk made a surprise appearance at CPAC Thursday afternoon, where Argentinian president Javier Milei presented him…

Liz Truss calls for a ‘Trump revolution in Britain’

21 February 2025 6:44 am

National Harbor, Maryland Former British prime minister Liz Truss began her speech at CPAC today by declaring that America has…

Luis Rubiales and Spain’s war on machismo

21 February 2025 4:53 am

Luis Rubiales kissed player Jenni Hermoso on the lips during the medal ceremony after Spain won the Women’s World Cup…

VP Vance touts border security, energy and humor at CPAC

21 February 2025 4:21 am

Vice President J.D. Vance took to the Conservative Political Action Committee stage moments ago for a sit-down interview with Mercedes…

The cruellest thing about Trump vs Zelensky? Trump’s right

21 February 2025 2:32 am

And just like that, we are back in 2017. Donald Trump, the President of the United States, is posting ridiculous…

The incalculable evil of Hamas’s coffin stunt

21 February 2025 2:05 am

We need to talk about what we witnessed in Gaza today. The sick ceremonial handover of the bodies of slain…

Putin is watching Trump attack Zelensky with glee

21 February 2025 1:27 am

Britain might not even be close to putting boots on the ground, but proposals by Keir Starmer to send UK…

Why progressive activists feel superior

21 February 2025 1:09 am

Left-wing activists are less likely to understand or listen to people with conservative beliefs, compared to the rest of the…

Optimism alone won’t raise Britain’s birth rate

21 February 2025 12:14 am

Few things could make Nigel Farage squirm, but a question from Jordan Peterson at this week’s Alliance for Responsible Citizenship…

Can Britain defend itself and have a welfare state?

20 February 2025 10:55 pm

No one can say we weren’t warned. As early as 1971 America was warning that it could reduce its defence…

Trump’s Ukraine posturing is odious and immoral

20 February 2025 10:11 pm

As happens with every issue, the world is now neatly polarised about Mr Trump. There are those who refer to…

Reform UK officially democratises

20 February 2025 10:03 pm

Parliament may be in recess – but for Reform UK the work does not stop. This morning Mr S noticed…