World

2024 is America’s ‘lock him up’ election

22 August 2023 5:49 pm

It’s time to acknowledge the obvious truth about 2024: it’s going to be an election about who Americans want to…

The virtue-signaling behind the renaming of the Middlebury College chapel

22 August 2023 12:11 pm

Early on the morning of September 27, 2021, Middlebury College president Laurie Patton had a stone bearing the name of…

Starmer will have cash to spend, thanks to the Tories

22 August 2023 5:10 am

It’s great to see Philip Collins back in the Times: you may agree or disagree with him as a columnist but his writing…

Should Lucy Letby have been allowed to miss her sentencing?

22 August 2023 3:45 am

Until a few years ago I had never heard of a single case of a murderer declining to go into…

Full text: The Lucy Letby sentencing remarks

22 August 2023 2:45 am

Lucy Letby has been sentenced to a whole life jail term, after being found guilty of murdering seven babies and…

Sadiq Khan’s racial dystopia

22 August 2023 12:19 am

Imagine if the Mayor of London was a Tory and his website featured an image of a black family alongside…

Is the Home Office working against the Tories?

21 August 2023 8:59 pm

It has long been suggested by senior politicians from both main parties that civil servants in the Home Office pick…

We are facing an epidemic of online fraud

21 August 2023 8:23 pm

At what point are we going to drop the fiction that acquisitive crime is on the wane and admit that…

Watch: DeSantis grinds teeth during grilling

21 August 2023 8:19 pm

Poor Ron DeSantis. Once, he was the frontrunner to take over the Republican mantle from Trump. But now, following a…

Sanctions are failing to turn Putin’s oligarchs against him

21 August 2023 4:59 pm

When personal sanctions on Russian oligarchs and officials were imposed by the UK, US and EU after Putin’s invasion, the…

What the future holds for women’s football

21 August 2023 1:13 am

Well, that’s the end of that. Football, like an unrepentant runaway, stubbornly refuses to come home. Spain, deservedly probably, edged…

America has lost the war against Islamist terror in Africa

20 August 2023 6:45 pm

After 9/11, the US built a network of military outposts across the northern tier of Africa to fight a shadow…

After Sunak, who?

20 August 2023 5:54 pm

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens, the author Fay Weldon once declared. This observation about life’s tendency…

Ireland’s bonkers plan to kill cows to save the planet

20 August 2023 5:45 pm

You have to hand it to the green movement. When it comes to their increasingly farcical and delusional race towards…

Christian churches are under attack in Pakistan

20 August 2023 4:00 pm

On Wednesday, 19 churches and more than 80 Christian homes in Pakistan were ransacked after the inhabitants of the city of Jaranwala…

Au revoir to Le Gavroche

20 August 2023 4:00 pm

You do not need to be a ‘food person’ to know the name Roux. Or to be familiar with Le…

The rise of the popcons

20 August 2023 11:30 am

The Republican Party has to come to grips with populism. Donald Trump’s commanding lead in the race for the 2024…

You should read Simon Raven

20 August 2023 10:00 am

It is high summer but in the early mornings you can already sense the first thrilling signs of autumn, the…

The National: ‘Can an independent Afghanistan offer lessons for Scotland?’

20 August 2023 12:55 am

It’s a tough time for Scottish nationalists these days. Polling for indyref2 remains static while the SNP’s own ratings have…

Elon is offering us a raw deal with X

19 August 2023 11:28 pm

Elon Musk, the owner of X — once known as Twitter, may she rest in peace — is making Americans…

In praise of the Moscow mule

19 August 2023 11:16 am

If called upon to declare the seven greatest cocktails of all time — a Magnificent Seven, as it were —…

China’s property sector is on the brink of disaster – again

19 August 2023 10:00 am

Once, not that long ago, few people outside China had heard of the property developer Evergrande. Now it is synonymous…

It’s time to end the rewilding menace

19 August 2023 10:00 am

There’s a ghastly predictability to the news that the University of Sussex – in Brighton, naturally – wants to set aside nearly half…

Are we prepared for the end of obesity?

19 August 2023 10:00 am

Sixty years ago, my biology teacher told me (so it must have been true) that after the war, some Americans…

Young people don’t even know they’re being taken for a ride

19 August 2023 10:00 am

Travelling home on the train last week, I heard the dulcet sounds of political discourse drifting towards me across the…