World
The New York subway shooter’s private hell
A common theme among America’s spree killers is a fondness for rambling online. Isla Vista shooter Elliot Rodger griped about…
Why are elite Russian musicians backing Putin?
A world away from the stupendous horror perpetrated by Russian forces in Bucha and Kramatorsk, a parallel conflict is being…
Why the sinking of the Moskva matters
The sinking of the Russian guided missile cruiser Moskva is both a reminder of the past and a marker for the…
Why China has its eye on the Falklands
Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has paradoxically heightened China’s global reputation, if only because it has not yet invaded a…
Why Russians celebrate monsters
Nobody knows how long people live in Dzerzhinsk – life expectancy statistics for the Russian city, 250 miles east of…
Female prisoners are being endangered by trans rights
This week it was reported that a male convicted murderer in Scotland has not only been allowed to self-identity on…
Could Australia’s answer to Corbyn become PM?
While the main electoral attraction of the moment is the French presidential showdown between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen,…
Elon Musk is the wrong kind of billionaire
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in the C-suite at Twitter on Thursday afternoon. The social media…
Free speech shouldn’t depend on billionaires
If you take any interest in social media, Silicon Valley, or the culture wars — which all seem to be…
Boris isn’t safe yet
It is worth thinking back to late January when Boris Johnson’s premiership seemed in the greatest danger. As I say…
The next phase of the Ukraine war will be bloody
The war in Ukraine is about to enter an even deadlier stage, one in which both Kyiv and Moscow will…
Russia’s dark path towards the death penalty
In Russia these days, the reintroduction of the death penalty has a grim inevitability about it. There has been a…
What are the Tories for?
It’s an odd accusation to levy at Boris Johnson’s government, but the Conservative party feels grey. Flights of fancy suggesting…
Ignore the dollar doomsayers
So, it’s official. The global rating agency S&P has determined that the Russian government has defaulted on part of its…
Easter traditions from around the world
You know where you are with Christmas. Trees, carols, nativity plays, holly and ivy, presents, mince pies, crackers, Dickens, It’s…
The real danger Marine Le Pen poses to the EU
As the French Presidentielle hots up for the final vote on Sunday week, both Macron and Le Pen are fighting…
Down with the ‘Third World War’ doomsayers
Some people are always telling you that the world is soon to end. In the old days many of them…
What’s wrong with the Rwanda plan?
There are many unanswered questions about the government’s new policy of compelled expulsion to Rwanda of uninvited asylum claimants. Here…
The problem with Boris’s Rwanda solution
Is the Prime Minister’s plan to divert some asylum seekers to Rwanda racist? Is it inhumane? Is it a dead…
Partygate cuts through with voters
The Tory task at the next election is enormous. No party in the democratic age has ever won a fifth…
The Rwanda plan could save Boris
If you want to see what explosive growth looks like then I invite you to eschew all the old Covid…
Our prisons are woefully unprepared for Ali Harbi Ali
The Islamist terrorist Ali Harbi Ali will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the murder of Sir…
The new plan to stop Channel migrants
How best to move attention away from the Prime Minister receiving a fine over partygate? An eye-catching government announcement to…
Is this the birth of a Nordic Nato?
In the past six weeks, Finland and Sweden’s security policies have changed more than they have over the past six…
Who governs Britain? Not ministers, it seems
Who governs Britain? It’s a dangerous question, as Ted Heath learned half a century ago. But while he was concerned…
