World

Why I don’t like gigs

26 October 2025 5:00 pm

I’ve been obsessed with music and collecting records ever since I can remember. I even played a lot of those…

Will the Dutch send migrants to Uganda?

26 October 2025 5:00 pm

Reinette Klever, the former minister for foreign trade and development aid on behalf of Geert Wilders’s Freedom party, navigated her…

Is Jack Carr behind the Department of War?

26 October 2025 4:00 pm

As a Navy SEAL for 20 years, who reached the rank of Lieutenant Commander and served in Iraq and Afghanistan,…

Catherine Connolly’s election is a low for Ireland

26 October 2025 9:04 am

As predicted, the radical far-left has emerged victorious from Ireland’s farcical presidential election, leaving the ruling coalition parties humiliated and…

Why I am threatening to sue the London Mathematical Society

25 October 2025 11:31 pm

Last month, in apparent defiance of the Supreme Court, the Council of the London Mathematical Society published a new Statement…

Lucy Powell wins Labour deputy leadership race

25 October 2025 10:26 pm

Lucy Powell has won Labour’s deputy leadership election, beating her rival Bridget Phillipson. The result was announced this morning after…

Accidental prison releases are all too common

25 October 2025 7:23 pm

Yesterday His Majesty’s Prison Service released a sex offender by mistake. That would be bad enough on its own, but…

Prince Andrew’s titles cannot be simply stripped

25 October 2025 4:00 pm

Back-bench MPs are again discussing how to ‘strip’ Prince Andrew of his titles. The frenzy and impulse is public-facing and…

The searing testimony of Eli Sharabi

25 October 2025 4:00 pm

Now that the remaining live hostages have been freed, and the remains of those killed are slowly being located and…

Will Trump meet ‘Little Rocket Man?’

25 October 2025 4:00 pm

As President Trump sets off on his East Asian tour, all eyes will be on the bilateral summits that the…

Will Hamas give ‘cold peace’ a chance?

25 October 2025 4:00 pm

Gaza was always going to be a hard lift, and it is proving to be exactly that. The two years…

An evening in Austin with Graham Linehan and Meghan Murphy

25 October 2025 7:58 am

It’s a telling commentary on our times that an Irish man and a Canadian woman have to go to Texas…

Will SCOTUS strip seats from Democrats?

25 October 2025 4:00 am

The headwinds facing Democrats in Congress have been blowing powerfully for some time now. On culture, the economy, law enforcement…

Did the billionaire Binance bro pay for his pardon?

25 October 2025 3:20 am

“Better to ask forgiveness than permission.” Those were the words of Changpeng Zhao – the billionaire founder of Binance, the…

Trump’s World Series wind-up

25 October 2025 2:11 am

It’s thanks to good old Yankee bravado that baseball’s most important fixture is called the “World Series,” even though it’s…

The fall of Jess Phillips

25 October 2025 1:33 am

Is Jess Phillips okay? I can’t be the only one wondering. The safeguarding minister’s increasingly erratic, shirty performances at the…

There’s no such thing as a ‘free’ breakfast club

25 October 2025 1:09 am

‘Parents shouldn’t be out of pocket by setting their kids up for school’. So boasted Downing Street, as the government…

Dominic Cummings: why the elites keep getting politics wrong

25 October 2025 12:19 am

Last night, Dominic Cummings was interviewed at the O2 by the activist start-up, Looking for Growth. Cummings walked on stage…

NHS slammed for sharing Sandie Peggie data with SNP

25 October 2025 12:17 am

Oh dear. NHS Fife has come under fire yet again after it emerged that the health board shared details of…

The joyful return of racing at Cheltenham

25 October 2025 12:07 am

Today is a perfect day. Not just any old great day, but the first truly perfect one for over six…

All politics is now about stopping Farage

24 October 2025 11:55 pm

Who really won the by-election in Caerphilly? I know officially it was Plaid Cymru, and I wouldn’t want to diminish…

Rudakubana’s school knew he was trouble

24 October 2025 11:45 pm

Quietly, day-by-day, the inquiry into the Southport killings is revealing how disastrous failures of the British state led to Axel…

Bloody Sunday and the battle for Northern Ireland’s past

24 October 2025 9:57 pm

Soldier F, a former paratrooper accused of shooting dead two unarmed protestors on Bloody Sunday in 1972, has been found…

The hate-filled campaign against professor Ben-Gad

24 October 2025 9:14 pm

If I didn’t tell you professor Michael Ben-Gad was an Israeli, you could probably figure it out from his response…

Welcome to Balkan Britain

24 October 2025 9:09 pm

Never has a Welsh Senedd election seemed so interesting; the Caerphilly by election marks a true turning point in history.…