World

Utah’s Spencer Cox has displayed America’s best values

13 September 2025 6:31 am

Governor Spencer Cox of Utah rose above the crowd when he spoke of Charlie Kirk‘s assassination and the apprehension of…

Stephen King, The Long Walk and Charlie Kirk

13 September 2025 4:42 am

Under normal circumstances, the author Stephen King should have been feeling pretty good about things and himself at the moment.…

Theresa May’s attack on the Assisted Suicide Bill was phenomenal

13 September 2025 4:13 am

‘This was Parliament at its best’, so went the inane and factually incorrect mantra of Kim Leadbeater as her Assisted…

Micheal Martin is on the wrong side of the flag debate

13 September 2025 2:24 am

Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin is keeping a close eye on the ‘Operation Raise the Colours’ campaign, and he does not like what…

The Oxford Union and the shameful response to Charlie Kirk’s killing

12 September 2025 11:50 pm

George Abaraonye was elected in June to be the Oxford Union president for Hilary term 2026. He is a PPE…

Man arrested over murder of Charlie Kirk

12 September 2025 11:40 pm

To the US, where the FBI has been searching for Charlie Kirk’s shooter, after the 31-year-old was tragically killed while…

Charlie Kirk could have been president

12 September 2025 11:30 pm

As with so many political assassinations across the Atlantic – the Kennedys, Martin Luther King –Charlie Kirk’s killer is likely…

America’s troubled theopolitics

12 September 2025 11:20 pm

The bloody ideological instability of the United States – demonstrated this week by the horrific killing of Charlie Kirk –…

What’s the real reason Spain and Ireland have a problem with Israel?

12 September 2025 10:40 pm

What do Ireland and Spain have in common? This week, the answer is Jews. On Monday, Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez,…

The Mandelson ‘joke’ fell flat in Washington

12 September 2025 10:03 pm

Lord Peter Mandelson is to the “Third Way” what Roger Stone is to populism – an alte kameraden from the freewheeling early…

Penalty fares surge after Jenrick Tube stunt

12 September 2025 9:57 pm

Robert Jenrick has had a good summer. Back in June, the shadow justice secretary caused a social media stir when…

Bolsonaro’s conviction reveals a divided Brazil

12 September 2025 9:23 pm

Brazil’s former right-wing president Jair Bolsanaro has been sentenced to 27 years in jail after being found guilty by the…

Britain’s growth figures are even worse than they look

12 September 2025 8:54 pm

Keir Starmer should be thankful for Lord Mandelson. Were it not for scandal over the Mandelson’s connections with Jeffrey Epstein,…

Lords line up against assisted dying

12 September 2025 8:47 pm

Happy Friday, one and all. It is a big day in the House of Lords as peers gear up to…

Lord Hermer is dangerously wrong about the ECHR

12 September 2025 8:42 pm

How things change. Five years ago few electors cared about the UK’s membership of the ECHR. Today that same convention,…

After Charlie Kirk, Trump should crack down on campus ‘safetyism’

12 September 2025 8:28 pm

An assassin who wants to silence a debate in America’s colleges can’t do it just by killing Charlie Kirk. Although…

What is Prince Harry doing in Ukraine?

12 September 2025 7:25 pm

The Ginger Pimpernel – as the world will probably not be calling the Duke of Sussex – has popped up…

Could Wes Streeting move against Starmer?

12 September 2025 5:14 pm

Angela Rayner’s failure to get proper tax advice on her house in Hove could be one of those ‘butterfly effect’…

Keir Starmer was a fool to ever tie himself to Peter Mandelson

12 September 2025 3:00 pm

There is a unique, and bitter, flavour to the corruption of the men of the 1990s. Peter Mandelson – who…

The bloodthirstiness of the left is not new

12 September 2025 8:53 am

The savage assassination of Charlie Kirk at a Turning Point rally at Utah Valley University yesterday prompts me to wonder, as I…

Trump leads tributes to Charlie Kirk

12 September 2025 4:57 am

Charlie Kirk’s senseless murder on a Utah college campus yesterday led to an instant and disgusting avalanche of celebration from…

America’s mask of civility slips again

12 September 2025 3:44 am

The FBI has just released an image of a “person of interest” in the case of Charlie Kirk’s killing. The Wall…

Mandelson’s ambassadorship exposed Britain’s insularity

12 September 2025 3:11 am

Lord Peter Mandelson is to the “Third Way” what Roger Stone is to populism – an alte kameraden from the freewheeling early…

Labour by-election campaign in meltdown

12 September 2025 2:46 am

Oh dear. It’s not just in Westminster that Keir Starmer’s party is having trouble. Welsh Labour are also having a…

Kemi Badenoch has a sliver of hope

12 September 2025 2:17 am

I can’t remember when I last wrote anything as reckless, but the last week has been a good one for…