World

How a history festival became a forum of fear

5 July 2025 4:00 pm

‘Defence needs to be our number one priority.’ This sounds like the sort of thing you’d hear at a Nato…

Why is Bob Vylan free but Lucy Connolly in prison?

5 July 2025 3:33 pm

So now we know. Now we know that Bob Vylan’s sick chant at Glastonbury was not a colourfully worded call…

Islam has a rich history of depicting Muhammad

5 July 2025 3:29 pm

Journalists at LeMan are in fear for their lives after the Turkish satirical magazine published cartoons appearing to depict the…

How I made Facebook nice again

5 July 2025 3:05 pm

Social media can still be a force for good, as I found out last weekend when we woke up with…

Myanmar’s junta is losing its grip on power

5 July 2025 3:01 pm

A Myanmar military jet continued to fly sorties just over our hidden frontline hospital. Every time it screamed low over…

Trump’s Big, Beautiful Fourth of July

5 July 2025 9:38 am

Washington, DC What’s the best way to celebrate America’s birthday? For President Trump, it was a swift round of golf…

Revealed: Morgan McSweeney’s memo to the PM on how Labour could fail

5 July 2025 3:18 am

In this week’s cover story, I revealed details of a memo written by Morgan McSweeney, the prime minister’s chief of…

J.D. Vance’s summer plans in the ‘Hamptons of England’

5 July 2025 2:45 am

Where does a good America First hillbilly like to spend his summer? Cockburn would not have thought the answer was…

Trump’s weapons pause will help Putin win

5 July 2025 2:37 am

Vladimir Putin launched one of the largest air assaults of the war overnight, just hours after admitting to Donald Trump…

Why is TfL’s boss attacking me for cleaning up his filthy trains?

5 July 2025 1:13 am

If at first you don’t succeed; deny, deflect, attack. This is apparently the mantra of Sadiq Khan and his Transport…

Watch: Steve Coogan’s accidental Partridge moment

4 July 2025 10:26 pm

Mr Steerpike is a fan of Accidental Partridge moments, and this one was back of the net. Lefty actor Steve Coogan…

Ukraine is going to suffer without US Patriot missiles

4 July 2025 10:21 pm

Ukraine has survived more than three years of Vladimir Putin’s war because of massive western arms supplies, an appreciation and…

Why is American pride at an all-time low?

4 July 2025 10:02 pm

Lee Greenwood may be “Proud to be an American,” but the same can’t be said for a growing number of…

Corbyn allies blindsided by Zarah Sultana

4 July 2025 9:47 pm

After months of discussion, it has finally been confirmed that Jeremy Corbyn is starting a new left-wing party. The news…

Women’s football needs Euro 2025 to be a success

4 July 2025 9:36 pm

On 1 August 2022, bleary-eyed England women football players danced around central London with the word ‘Home’ emblazoned across their…

Corbyn and Sultana’s party launch gets off to the worst possible start

4 July 2025 9:25 pm

There could be no more deliciously appropriate start to the new party supposedly co-led by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana,…

Reform catches Vance’s eye

4 July 2025 9:19 pm

Support for Nigel Farage’s Reform party is surging in the UK, and it appears the group is making waves across…

Corbyn is following in the footsteps of the French left

4 July 2025 9:09 pm

Labour has reacted with scorn to the news that Zarah Sultana has resigned from the party to create a new…

This July 4, Trump wants you to celebrate winning – big time

4 July 2025 6:01 pm

As President Donald J. Trump waits for One Big Beautiful Bill to sign on the 4th of July, it’s worth…

Wes Streeting has learnt nothing from the NHS’s past mistakes

4 July 2025 4:27 pm

Yesterday, Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer announced a ten-year plan to save the NHS. ‘There are moments in our national…

We should be outraged by Lily Allen’s ‘four or five’ abortions

4 July 2025 4:00 pm

If we want to understand why thousands of women a year in England and Wales have an abortion – 251,377…

The biggest reason people aren’t having babies? FOMO

4 July 2025 4:00 pm

In his book Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids, economist Bryan Caplan notes that, due to modern conveniences and our better…

Why Oasis is like Reform

4 July 2025 4:00 pm

Almost 16 years after they last performed live, Oasis kick off their reunion tour tonight and for every ‘mad for…

Why the baby bust matters

4 July 2025 3:41 pm

Birth rates are tumbling across the world. This isn’t just a tragedy for the growing number of women who have…

Mamdani’s strategically claimed blackness

4 July 2025 11:53 am

When Zohran Mamdani applied to Columbia University in 2009, he checked both the “Asian” and “Black or African American” boxes…