Cop’s pledge to move away from fossil fuels is a farce

13 December 2023 8:35 pm

So, a deal has been reached. The world has agreed on what Cop 28 president Sultan al-Jaber has called a…

Is Britain’s economy ‘going backwards’?

13 December 2023 8:14 pm

Has the UK economy come to a standstill? This morning we learn that the economy contracted by 0.3 per cent…

Why isn’t Biden being straight with Zelensky?

13 December 2023 6:50 pm

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Washington a year ago was a love-fest, characterised by standing ovations from American politicians,…

Rishi Sunak will never stop the boats

13 December 2023 5:42 pm

Do not let the relatively comfortable margin of victory for the Rwanda Bill’s second reading fool you: we have now…

Defending Matthew Williams’s Givenchy

13 December 2023 2:23 pm

Matthew Williams, the tattooed American fashion designer and creative director at Givenchy, will soon be evicted from the famous house.…

Sunak wins the Rwanda vote – but the battle is far from over

13 December 2023 6:49 am

The government has won Tuesday’s vote on the ‘Safety of Rwanda’ Bill comfortably at 313 votes to 269 against. This…

After the Thalidomide apology, where is the Covid vaccine apology?

13 December 2023 4:00 am

What a difference 61 years makes. In November 1962, thalidomide was withdrawn from use in Australia but only now has…

Don’t welcome me to my country

13 December 2023 3:18 am

Shockingly, Australia Day festivities have been cancelled in London due to ‘sensitivities’! As a proud Australian, I believe that politicians…

Tammy Peterson: awareness of the transcendent

13 December 2023 3:09 am

Tammy Peterson is the wife of celebrated psychologist and co-founder of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC), Jordan Peterson. Tammy…

The L Word – do no harm, take no shit

13 December 2023 2:49 am

Libertarian: noun –  ‘An advocate or supporter of a political philosophy that advocates only minimal state intervention in the free market…

Net zero minister forced to fly back for crunch vote

13 December 2023 1:22 am

It’s been a rather difficult week for Rishi Sunak, and it’s still only Tuesday. After being grilled by the Covid…

Does a fifth of the population think we should still be in lockdown?

13 December 2023 1:11 am

That shutting people away in their homes for weeks on end was going to have a bad effect on mental…

Turkey’s shameful referee attack was waiting to happen

13 December 2023 1:08 am

All football matches in Turkey have been suspended after a club president invaded the pitch and punched a referee in the…

The convenient timing of Meghan and Harry’s Christmas video

13 December 2023 12:13 am

There’s that well-known saying of ‘anything you can do, I can do better’. In what can only be an attempt…

Where is the solidarity with Guyana?

13 December 2023 12:08 am

On Monday, the Stop the War Coalition (StWC), the environmentalist group Just Stop Oil (JSO), the Socialist Campaign Group (SCG),…

Asylum seeker dies on board migrant barge

12 December 2023 10:53 pm

An asylum seeker has died on the Bibby Stockholm boat. The identity of the migrant who lost his life on…

Macron suffers a ‘stunning’ setback over his immigration crackdown

12 December 2023 7:54 pm

Emmanuel Macron refused to accept the resignation of his interior minister on Monday evening after the government’s immigration bill was…

Have we really lost hundreds of thousands of workers since Covid?

12 December 2023 7:37 pm

The jobs market appears to be slowing down, but can we trust the figures? Vacancies have fallen for the longest…

What if Rishi Sunak loses his crunch Rwanda vote?

12 December 2023 7:19 pm

Rishi Sunak faces the most important vote of his premiership this evening when his ‘Safety of Rwanda’ bill has its…

‘Division will be punished’: Tory MPs urged not to rebel on Rwanda

12 December 2023 6:12 pm

Can Rishi Sunak persuade wavering Tory MPs not to vote down his Rwanda bill this afternoon? The European Research Group…

There’s only one winner in Egypt’s sham election

12 December 2023 5:00 pm

After three days of voting, the polls close today in Egypt’s presidential elections. The result is expected on 18 December,…

Gary Lineker slips up (again)

12 December 2023 5:59 am

Will Gary Lineker ever learn? The BBC Sports pundit is now facing criticism after signing an open letter calling for…

Sunak’s strange Covid Inquiry appearance

12 December 2023 4:25 am

Rishi Sunak had a strange pandemic. He spent a lot of it in government meetings, the details of which he…

Is Javier Milei abandoning his radicalism already?

12 December 2023 1:48 am

When Labour’s Liam Byrne left a note for the incoming coalition Treasury team in 2010 which said ‘I’m afraid there…

Is the RBA’s 2-3 per cent inflation target still being taken seriously?

12 December 2023 1:24 am

Promises need timeframes, otherwise they are just empty words. If your friend tells you they are doing a diet, you…