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Will Trump ‘totally obliterate’ Iran’s nuclear programme – again?

13 February 2026 12:22 am

Donald Trump spent much of the second half of last year boasting about the total and utter success of his…

Cartel drones vs Texas lasers

12 February 2026 11:34 pm

Yesterday, El Paso, Texas, was placed under severe restrictions from the Federal Aviation Administration. For unspecified reasons of national security,…

Why was Canada so afraid of misgendering a trans shooter?

12 February 2026 10:51 pm

A horrible and incredibly sad tragedy unfolded on February 10 in the small town of Tumbler Ridge in British Columbia,…

The case for Antonia Romeo

12 February 2026 10:40 pm

A few thoughts about the Antonia Romeo furore. This will doubtless not help her at all but Starmer would be…

Starmer pick slammed by ex-mandarin

12 February 2026 8:27 pm

When a PM is in crisis, what do they do? Sack the head of the civil service. Having lost both…

Jim Ratcliffe has a point about Britain

12 February 2026 7:52 pm

Jim Ratcliffe is not a polished media performer, and neither does he have an accurate set of UK demographic statistics…

Is there a silver lining in Britain’s dismal growth figures?

12 February 2026 7:14 pm

Wes Streeting was bang on when he told Peter Mandelson the government had ‘no growth strategy at all’. The Health…

The question we keep asking after Afghan sex attacks

12 February 2026 4:45 pm

Why was he here? It’s a question we are forced to ask over and over again in borderless Britain, after…

Why I left London, the city I loved

12 February 2026 4:40 pm

My friends never let me forget the first time I came to London. They couldn’t understand why I was so…

Britain has an antisemitism problem

12 February 2026 4:30 pm

Want to know what kind of country you live in? You live in a country in which there are more…

Keir Starmer staggers on for another day

12 February 2026 4:56 am

Sir Keir Starmer is now the Black Knight of British politics. Like the mutilated pugilist of Monty Python, he stumbles around…

Lutnick Epstein

Epstein and Lutnick, sitting in a tree?

12 February 2026 4:48 am

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick admitted that he went on vacation, with his family, to Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in 2012. How very…

Keir Starmer’s PMQ cluckings convinced no one

12 February 2026 2:50 am

Sir Keir got probably the biggest cheer he’s had all year at Prime Minister’s Questions today. Unfortunately for him, it…

The Afghan asylum crime wave has to stop

12 February 2026 1:40 am

On 22 July last year, in Nuneaton, a 12-year-old girl was playing on the swings. There she was spotted by…

Downing Street flail over dodgy peerage offence

12 February 2026 1:07 am

Just stop Doyle! It was another bad Prime Ministers’ Questions this week for Keir Starmer today. Once again, one of…

Biowarfare

Why doesn’t the CDC care about Chinese biolabs in America?

11 February 2026 11:16 pm

If you rent a cheap Airbnb house in Las Vegas, you might not be altogether surprised to find dead crickets…

Ukraine has entered the grey zone

11 February 2026 10:49 pm

Kharkiv, Ukraine In a bunker on the outskirts of Kharkiv, a group of rookie Ukrainian soldiers are learning the basics…

Why Jew hate is spiralling out of control

11 February 2026 10:38 pm

The latest set of antisemitism figures from the Community Security Trust covering 2025 are depressingly predictable. Last year, saw 3,700…

Banning drill music from court would be a mistake

11 February 2026 9:34 pm

You have to watch the House of Lords carefully these days. Whenever a Bill on some fairly general subject, like…

Ed Miliband’s green promises are coming back to haunt him

11 February 2026 9:20 pm

It looks as if £300 will end up being to Ed Miliband what 45 minutes was to Tony Blair: the…

Farage is right about working from home

11 February 2026 6:28 pm

Not for the first time, Nigel Farage has hit a nerve. At a rally in Birmingham, the Reform UK leader…

It’s time to ban men from working in nurseries

11 February 2026 5:57 pm

Nathan Bennett was employed at a nursery, caring for toddlers, when he committed 21 sexual offences against five of them.…

I have so much in common with Angela Rayner, so why can’t I stand her?

11 February 2026 4:30 pm

Were I ever to share a cuppa with Angela Rayner, a certain spark of kinship might be expected. After all,…

Starmer suspends ex-comms chief over sex offender links

11 February 2026 5:06 am

This is Keir Starmer’s worst week in politics – and it is still only Tuesday. The constant flailings of the…

Net zero is forcing BP into irrelevance

11 February 2026 3:26 am

It should have moved ‘Beyond Petroleum’ by now, with wind, solar and hydroelectric power powering its profits. If you rewind…