An entertaining demolition of futurology
Nick Foster explores the various ways we think about the future, from thrilled anticipation through to panicked doom-mongering
The lionising of Richard I over the centuries
The Plantagenet king whose life was packed with glamour, blood and brutality would have relished the heroic legends that steadily accrued after his death
The Emiratis are right to keep their kids out of Britain
If you don’t want your kids joining the jihad, don’t send them to a British university. That is the view…
Gabbard 2028, anyone?
“The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela,” said Tulsi Gabbard. “Let the Venezuelan people determine their future. We…
Six things we learnt about Starmer’s government this week
Keir Starmer began the year saying that any minute he wasn’t focused on the cost of living would be a…
2026 is the year of the Somali benefits scandal
All it took was one video from a 23-year-old YouTuber named Nick Shirley to end the 20-year political run of…
Britain’s X crackdown is no joke
The internet suddenly went down in Iran last night, as courageous Iranians continued to rise up against the Ayatollah. The…
Why won’t Britain proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood?
What is it going to take for the British government – any British government, of any party – to proscribe…
The terrible cost of the Met Police’s diversity drive
In the shadow of recent scandal, the Metropolitan Police’s tougher vetting regime promised a cultural renaissance. Yet the admission yesterday…
France’s bistros are dying
Emmanuel Macron says France’s traditional bistros should be granted Unesco world heritage status. Speaking at the Élysée this week, the…
Unrest is spreading across Iran
“If they shut down the internet, you know it’s serious,” said a well-informed observer of Iran to me yesterday morning.…
One Nation and the Coalition neck-and-neck
In the final weeks of Parliament, both Labor and the Coalition imagined they had One Nation by the balls with…
Why the Iran protests feel different this time
The most recent spate of protests in Iran have escalated since 28 December and raised hopes once again that the…
When lamb on the BBQ becomes a luxury
Every year, Australians are treated to the familiar spectacle of the Australian lamb ad. Tongue-in-cheek, self-aware, and unapologetically cheeky, it…
Why the Norfolk carnyx matters
For the archaeologists used to working on major infrastructure jobs, it was a small dig, over in four weeks. Yet…
Channel 5’s Huw Edwards drama should never have been made
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the disgraced Huw Edwards would never again appear on our TV screens. But Channel…
Is Cambridge’s state school diversity obsession over?
Shock horror. A Cambridge college has realised that to recruit the brightest students sometimes you have to encourage students from…
Listening too late
The announcement of a Royal Commission 25 days after Australia’s worst terrorist attack, and the largest loss of Jewish life…
Labor’s Royal Commissions are typically political theatre
They should fix problems, not fabricate scapegoats
What’s the matter with Minnesota?
Just when you thought Minnesota had hit rock bottom, the state achieves a new level of chaos. Once again it…
‘Regime influence’: Trump’s foreign-policy third way
At 2 a.m. on Saturday, President Trump gave a New Year’s kinetic expression to his recently published National Security Strategy and what it means in…
RFK Jr.’s health rules: eat, drink and be merry!
The USDA and Department of Health and Human Services has issued a new food pyramid, and it’s simultaneously great and…
Albanese fumbles the Royal Commission he fought hard to avoid
In his late Thursday afternoon Canberra media conference to announce a Royal Commission into the Bondi terror attack, the Prime…
Don’t expect England to learn anything from their Ashes drubbing
England’s cricketers have just lost the final Test match in Sydney. So the five-match series, a dead rubber ever since…
Colombia is the obvious next target for Trump’s narco war
Why exactly Donald Trump ordered that another head-of-state should be kidnapped is up for debate. The official reason for the…
