World

Iran and Hamas didn’t always get on

20 October 2023 5:30 pm

In the days after Hamas’s attack on Israel last week, everyone wondered how much Iran knew beforehand. But a focus…

Tories suffer double by-election defeat

20 October 2023 4:10 pm

Keir Starmer has reason to celebrate this morning after his party triumphed overnight in both the Mid-Bedfordshire and Tamworth by-elections.…

Biden’s Oval Office address was a sales pitch

20 October 2023 1:25 pm

A primetime address in the Oval Office is the pinnace of presidential speechifying. Ronald Reagan used the room in 1986…

The Queen’s sole mistake

20 October 2023 3:08 am

It’s often been said that the late Queen Elizabeth II rarely if ever put a foot wrong during her 70-year…

The Treasury should stop paying attention to the OBR

20 October 2023 2:40 am

A year ago Liz Truss’ brief government collapsed when markets lost confidence in Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget. A large part of the…

Sunak tells Israel: ‘We want you to win’

20 October 2023 1:22 am

Rishi Sunak is in Israel today for talks with the country’s leaders amid the ongoing conflict. The Prime Minister has…

Protests and confusion follow the Gaza hospital blast

19 October 2023 10:55 pm

On President Biden’s last-minute trip to Israel Wednesday, the commander-in-chief pledged America’s support to the Jewish state alongside Prime Minister…

‘WFH Whitehall’ still afflicting Foreign Office

19 October 2023 10:15 pm

The Foreign Office is often called the grandest of all Whitehall’s ministries – so it’s just a shame then that…

Biden struggles to speak aboard Air Force One

19 October 2023 9:43 pm

Is it ageist to suggest that an obviously frail 80-year-old might not be well suited to the task of resolving…

A culinary tour of southern France and northern Spain

19 October 2023 2:51 pm

If I’d known what a whole monkfish looks like, I would never have ordered it. It was only weeks later…

The sorry state of Supreme

19 October 2023 2:18 pm

It would have happened on a Thursday, as it does every Thursday. Crowds of young men and teen boys would…

The pride of pouring perfect concrete

19 October 2023 8:56 am

In the summer of 2020 I was awarded a degree in history from Bristol University — the culmination of three…

Being denied a job for supporting Hamas isn’t ‘cancel culture’

19 October 2023 4:39 am

Karol Markowicz has a piece today about cancel culture and the college students who signed on to reprehensible anti-Israel or even…

Meet Maria Corina Machado: could she become Venezuela’s Margaret Thatcher?

19 October 2023 1:11 am

In 2006, there was Manuel Rosales. In 2012, there was Henrique Capriles. In 2018, there was Juan Guaidó. All managed…

Which crimes no longer deserve prison?

19 October 2023 12:45 am

More people are being jailed than the justice system can manage. There are only 557 places left across 120 prisons…

Joe Biden’s Middle East diplomacy is a wreck

19 October 2023 12:44 am

Joe Biden prides himself on his decades of foreign-policy experience, his ability to talk tough yet be kind, and his…

Sunak unites the Commons behind Israel’s right to defence

19 October 2023 12:40 am

Most of the questions to Rishi Sunak today at Prime Minister’s Questions can be usefully summarised by the point put…

Why has there still not been a housing crash?

18 October 2023 11:22 pm

Not for the first time, a widely-predicted – and for many frustrated buyers, hoped-for – house price crash has failed…

The Gaza hospital strike changes everything

18 October 2023 10:15 pm

The explosion that killed hundreds in the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza has created a critical moment that may change the…

Has inflation stuck?

18 October 2023 8:04 pm

‘As we have seen across other G7 countries, inflation rarely falls in a straight line,’ said Chancellor Jeremy Hunt this…

Biden failed on Iran

18 October 2023 7:20 pm

Did American failures contribute to Hamas’s war of terror – its unprovoked attack, its total surprise, its horrific butchering of…

When naivety meets terror

18 October 2023 6:55 pm

On Monday evening a service of remembrance was held in Arras cathedral in northern France. The congregation was there to…

What Israel can learn from the battle for Mosul

18 October 2023 5:53 pm

Israel’s fight against Hamas has been compared to the war against Isis between 2015 and 2019. That war was largely…

The Covid inquiry asked the wrong questions of Neil Ferguson

18 October 2023 5:00 pm

SPI-M-O are at the Covid inquiry this week. They’re the shadowy group of mathematical modellers who contributed – more than…

‘It’s a necessity that the Middle East fears us’

18 October 2023 5:00 pm

Micah Goodman is done being nice and even-handed. He became a best-selling philosopher by telling Israelis that the Palestinians needed…