World
Why are we so obsessed with TV presenters?
The mucky allegations about a ‘household name’ BBC star – who is said to have paid thousands of pounds to…
Urgency drives the day at the Vilnius Nato summit
Rishi Sunak heads to Lithuania today for the Nato leaders’ summit (which means he will be missing another Prime Minister’s…
Ukraine’s Nato limbo is set to continue
As the Nato summit on international security opens this week in Vilnius, one obvious issue will be the success or…
Wages are up – but the Bank won’t be happy about it
The labour market continues to show signs of becoming less tight – but this won’t be fast enough for the…
Boris’s allies defend their attacks on the Privileges Committee
The House of Commons often rises early these days, with little in the way of legislation to keep MPs busy.…
The hopeless cycle of addiction – and drug running – behind bars
It’s my seventh night in HMP Wandsworth at the start of my 45-month sentence for fraud. I live on A…
Is the age of the legacy student over?
Johnston’s Gate isn’t the only entrance to Harvard Yard. For years, money, status and secret lists have opened back doors into…
Is Jeremy Hunt following in Gordon Brown’s footsteps?
Anyone fancy having a flutter with 5 per cent of their pension fund on unlisted start-ups? It is not necessarily…
Biden chickens out on Ukraine and NATO
Shortly before his trip to Europe and the NATO summit in Lithuania, President Biden told CNN that he does not…
Claims about BBC presenter ‘rubbish’ says young person’s lawyer
Allegations about a BBC presenter paying £35,000 for sexually explicit photos are ‘rubbish’ according to the lawyer of the young…
Congressman warns about alien technology
There is compelling evidence we have threats to global security not from this earth, according to Tennessee congressman Tim Burchett…
Who’s to blame for Scottish drug deaths?
Scotland is the drug deaths capital of Europe and changing that is going to take something radical. The Scottish government…
Why is Sarah Silverman suing artificial intelligence?
Crypto was a wonderful Wild West of anarchic financial innovation, absurd idiocy and scamming. Lots of scamming. Then regulators came…
Nato would be wrong to reject Ukraine’s membership plea
US president Joe Biden has been busy curbing expectations about Nato’s looming decision over Ukraine’s future membership. Starting the accession process…
Is Joe Biden really a close friend of Britain?
According to Joe Biden on the steps of Downing Street, by travelling to the UK he ‘couldn’t be meeting with…
GB News investigated… again
Another day, another investigation into GB News. This time though it’s not Ofcom probing the self-proclaimed ‘people’s channel’, but rather…
Trump at UFC and Kristen Bell’s dinner party: two viral moments from two Americas
Viral moments from either side of the American divide come so frequently these days that they are forgotten just as…
Why it’s not over yet for Humza Yousaf
There’s a moment in Bob Woodward’s gripping book Peril, the account of the buildup to and aftermath of the 2020 US…
Putin is struggling to solve his Prigozhin problem
It’s satisfying when a jigsaw piece slots into place. Today we heard that Wagner leader Evgeny Prigozhin met Vladimir Putin in the…
How did Trans Pride allow itself to become a front for misogyny?
On Saturday, in Trafalgar Square, a man called for violence against women. Specifically, it seems, intellectually curious women, those unruly…
Sunak needs a plan B for illegal migration
When Rishi Sunak made ‘stop the boats’ one of his key pledges at the start of the year he mentioned…
Jeremy Hunt’s City reforms are far too timid
There will be some tweaks to the way that pension funds are allowed to invest their money. There will be…
Teenage boy arrested after teacher stabbed
A teenage boy is being questioned on suspicion of attempted murder after a male teacher was stabbed at a Gloucestershire…
The CPS has completely caved to gender ideology
It would appear that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has finally caved completely to gender ideology. New CPS guidelines for…
Trans activists don’t help themselves
I’ve tried to stay out of the trans-rights conversation, honestly I have. There are a number of reasons for this,…
