World

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…

The High Court has undermined freedom of speech in universities

1 May 2026 3:30 pm

Maybe sex realists really are winning the gender wars. But for every two steps we take forward we are relentlessly…

King Charles

Why Bermuda is loyal to the King

1 May 2026 11:00 am

At St. Peter’s Church in St. George’s, Bermuda, the oldest Anglican church in continuous use in the Western Hemisphere, a…

koh-i-noor

Why does Zohran Mamdani want Charles III to return the Koh-i-Noor?

1 May 2026 5:02 am

Even those who don’t think much of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s politics might grudgingly concede he has a…

Zack Polanski’s shameful reaction to the Golders Green arrest

1 May 2026 3:43 am

Yesterday’s knife attack in Golders Green is yet another shocking assault on Britain’s Jewish community. Two Jewish men were attacked…

Russia has failed to unload stolen Ukrainian grain in Israel

1 May 2026 2:24 am

The diplomatic spat between Kyiv and Jerusalem over the Russian vessel wanting to unload stolen grain from occupied Ukrainian territories…

Is Streeting ready to be PM? 

1 May 2026 2:17 am

With a week to go before voters take to the polls, the race for victory is heating up. But it…

The problem with Labour’s toddler screen-time guidance

1 May 2026 12:43 am

As a parent of an 18-month-old, the glorious weather last weekend could mean only one thing: a tour of the…

Is life expectancy really falling?

30 April 2026 10:47 pm

On Sunday, the Health Foundation published new analysis of ONS data, finding that between 2012/14 and 2022/24 the average Healthy Life Expectancy (HLE)…

The Bank of England holds interest rates – for now

30 April 2026 10:33 pm

In a relief for mortgage holders, anyone with a job and the government, the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee…

The long march of the Ukippers

30 April 2026 10:05 pm

Wakey wakey! Whoooo remembers the United Kingdom Independence Party? Steerpike has fond memories of Ukip, Nigel Farage’s previous-but-one political vehicle…

Trump is too busy with himself to notice the chaos around him

30 April 2026 9:59 pm

King Charles and Queen Camilla were at their most emollient in Washington, where they exchanged a flurry of presents with…

Hannah Spencer is not the first MP to campaign against alcohol

30 April 2026 9:49 pm

Green MP Hannah Spencer has said Parliament’s drinking culture makes her feel ‘really uneasy’. Her comments, in an interview with PoliticsJOE,…

Lineker’s curious silence on Golders Green attack

30 April 2026 9:33 pm

As a darling of the progressive commentariat, Gary Lineker is not usually one to let injustice pass unremarked. The former…

The Democrats’ race-based regime is collapsing

30 April 2026 8:58 pm

The Supreme Court’s decision yesterday in Louisiana v. Callais et al has inevitably drawn strong criticism. In ruling that electoral districts cannot be redefined…