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Iran’s strike exposes the danger of the Chagos handover
In a sharp escalation, Iran attempted to strike the joint UK-US base Diego Garcia with two intermediate-range ballistic missiles. Both…
The truth about Robert Mueller
In the pantheon of Trump adversaries, Robert Mueller may rank at the very top. Everything about Mueller – his rectitude, his…
Saturday Night Live is a major breakthrough in British TV
The news that a British version of Saturday Night Live was in the offing raised an enormous gestalt groan throughout…
A migration U-turn would bury the Labour party
Immigration has come back to bite the government big time. Shabana Mahmood’s sage campaign to set up Labour as the…
Britain is experiencing a pilgrimage revival
When Sarah Mullally started her pilgrimage this week, travelling from London to Canterbury, she wasn’t just embracing a tradition in…
Trinidad is sick of Britain’s lax asylum system
As political speeches go, it struck familiar themes. An island nation was being overrun by dangerous criminals, taking advantage of…
The Hundred still has a problem with Pakistani cricketers
Throwing open the Hundred to foreign investment was intended to attract more elite players, boost attendances and position it as…
Iran tries to attack the Chagos islands
Shortly after midnight, Iran launched two long-range missiles towards the US base at Diego Garcia, the joint US-UK military base…
Reeves should tax expats to fund Britain’s defence spending
Open the first page of any British passport and you will be met by a request on behalf of the…
The bittersweet death of Lycra
There are a lot of things that Ozempic & Co. have killed business for. Weight Watchers. Diets from cabbage soup…
What Louis Theroux misses about the Manosphere
Louis Theroux, the Lib Dem Alan Whicker, has now had his turn at the manosphere. His new Netflix film Inside…
How AI is reshaping the Iran war
The magnitude and speed of the US and Israeli airstrikes eliminating Iranian regime officials can be explained in part by…
Asia is paying a very heavy price for the Iran war
This week, Sri Lankans took Wednesday off. They’ll be doing the same next week – and for as long as…
El Mencho’s last stand
Jalisco, Mexico No one seems to know exactly how El Mencho was killed. We are told the feared leader of…
Five things we learned this week
First of all, it’s farewell to Chuck Norris, the action movie star of such Hollywood classics (Generous – Ed.) as…
Has Giorgia Meloni really turned against Donald Trump?
I often think that the dissemination of news is like a game of Chinese Whispers. Giorgia Meloni, for instance, has…
Ukraine’s allies are falling away
As Ukraine emerges battered but unbowed from the third and most terrible winter of the war against Russia, its people…
Iran and America’s new protection racket
“Whoever rules the waves rules the world” – Alfred Thayer Mahan. Would Donald Trump have attacked Iran on February 28…
Could Britain help unblock the Strait of Hormuz?
It has not required advanced training in detecting nuance or reading between the lines in recent days to understand that…
Anthony Albanese’s mosque heckling is a humiliation
Ever since the Hamas atrocities of October 2023, it’s not been easy being Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese. Following the…
Ramadan in Iran made my life a misery
I still remember the last Ramadan I spent in Iran. My mother and I wanted to take a walk in…
Anti-vax parents shouldn’t get benefits
Like all parents, I find the prospect and experience of my child getting sick very unpleasant. Well, I say like…
Decriminalising late abortions isn’t progressive
Last week, the body of an 18-day old baby girl was found in Westminster, in desperately sad circumstances. The baby’s…
Britain’s borrowing splurge is not sustainable
After a record tax take and surplus in January, normal service has resumed. Britain experienced its second-largest February borrowing splurge…
Is the disagreement between Israel and the US over striking Iran’s gas fields real?
As the war approaches the end of its third week, US and Israeli strikes inside Iran continue to intensify and…
