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We are closer to AI extinction than we think

3 May 2026 3:00 pm

A spectre is hanging over humanity: the spectre of superintelligent AI. While governments busy themselves with the mundane work of…

We need to talk about your water bottle

3 May 2026 3:00 pm

Why does everyone in Britain carry water bottles these days? On a dog walk in London a few days ago,…

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Speech crimes are still on the statute book

3 May 2026 12:26 am

It is both a vindication of English justice and a cause of some embarrassment that the services of a High…

Why Scottish whiskey is worth the effort

2 May 2026 10:47 pm

‘The King and Queen got me to do something that nobody else was able to do, without hardly even asking!’…

Mental health is an inauthentic crisis

2 May 2026 10:21 pm

When it reaches the stage when everyone in the entire country is diagnosed as having mental health problems, will we…

It is no wonder Jews want to leave Britain

2 May 2026 3:45 pm

I am the one with the big personality around the Friday night dinner table. I have spent my whole life…

Should the Princess Diana tapes be released?

2 May 2026 3:33 pm

As King Charles returns to Britain this weekend, secure in the knowledge that his state visit to the United States…

Why can’t ministers admit the truth about what caused the Mandelson scandal?

2 May 2026 3:30 pm

At the heart of the Mandelson saga is one colossal political misjudgement – the appointment of Peter Mandelson to the…

Brian Cox is a world-class bore

2 May 2026 3:00 pm

One of these days, dismounting from his high horse, Brian Cox is going to suffer a terrible injury. The Scottish…

HMS Trump and the art of a diplomatic gift

2 May 2026 2:00 pm

The King’s state visit to the US has been a triumph. His Majesty managed to put most of Capitol Hill…

Mamdani

Zohran Mamdani’s toxic social media socialism

2 May 2026 11:00 am

Zohran Mamdani is discovering how much more difficult seizing the means of production is than posting about seizing it on…

Seven things to look out for as Britain heads to the polls

2 May 2026 4:10 am

Keir Starmer has now been Prime Minister for one year and 300 days, which puts him 43rd in the list…

Lorna Hajdini and the willing suspension of disbelief

2 May 2026 3:23 am

“A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” That…

Polanski grovels for Met criticism

2 May 2026 3:22 am

Oh dear. Just when you thought the Greens could sink no lower on crime and justice, along came Zack Polanski…

What Tsarist Russia tells us about anti-Semitism in Britain today

2 May 2026 2:06 am

During the autumn of 1888, as London’s East End erupted in panic following the Whitechapel murders, blame was soon cast…

Miliband’s red tape bonfire backfires

2 May 2026 12:50 am

Back in February, Steerpike’s old friend Ed Miliband vowed to liberate Britain’s nuclear industry from the stranglehold of bureaucracy. Red…

Why the Lib Dems are feeling confident

1 May 2026 11:19 pm

It is a beautiful, sunny Saturday morning in south-west London, and Sir Ed Davey is rallying the troops. The Lib…

The Greens are facing a reckoning

1 May 2026 10:36 pm

On subjects related to Jews, Zack Polanski, Mothin Ali and the other political children in the new Green party have been…

Kemi’s Conservative council confusion

1 May 2026 10:30 pm

Many in SW1 have remarked that Kemi Badenoch has come on quite a bit since her early PMQs’ appearances. The…

Golders Green is the reality of ‘globalise the Intifada’

1 May 2026 8:48 pm

The attack in Golders Green, in which two Jews were stabbed, took place two minutes from our charity’s centre, where…

SPLC

The powerful incentives for vilifying white Americans

1 May 2026 7:39 pm

The Southern Poverty Law Center may not, we hope, be long for this world. The Trump administration’s new indictment has…

Fight me, Jim Acosta: Michael Tracey

1 May 2026 7:24 pm

The recent DC media revelry was thwarted by a blundering assassination attempt, and in my case, a drunken challenge from…

Trump Iran

How will Trump solve the Iran problem?

1 May 2026 7:01 pm

Has President Trump discovered his “off-ramp” from the war in Iran? His administration insists that Iran’s military power has been…

How to stop rising Jew hate in Britain

1 May 2026 5:32 pm

It’s now been two days since the Golders Green terror attack, so if the response to previous such incidents is…

Why is Polanski downplaying anti-Semitism in the Green party?

1 May 2026 4:00 pm

Zack Polanski is furious. Not so much with the stabbing of two Jews in Golders Green yesterday. So far, he…