Social media visa vetting would protect Britain’s Jews
You don’t need to be a fervent admirer of Donald Trump to recognise that, on matters of national security and…
Kim and Putin’s growing bromance should make us nervous
As Kim Jong-un himself announced at a New Year’s Eve event in Pyongyang, 2025 was an ‘unforgettable year’ for North…
Venezuela is finally free
A crisis that began when I was still living in Latin America a quarter of a century ago has, at…
Woke robbed the West of its artistic soul
Stranger Things reaffirms modern showrunners can’t stick the landing
Can the ‘Donroe doctrine’ really change Venezuela?
Caracas During the early hours of Saturday January 3, an official statement from the White House, signed by President Trump,…
The keffiyeh crew’s curious silence on Iran
And just like that, the left loses interest in the Middle East. In 2025, they spoke of little else. They…
Khamenei’s banners are burning in Tehran
The people of Iran have been trying to free themselves from the oppressive Islamic Republic for decades. Tonight, hundreds of…
Maduro’s fall could galvanise Iran’s opposition
On the afternoon of the 28 December in a Tehran electronics bazaar, shopkeepers (known as bazaaris) shuttered their shops and…
Why Trump captured Maduro
Donald Trump likes to start the new year with a bang – or better yet a series of loud bangs.…
President Maduro of Venezuela captured by US
‘The tyrant is gone. He will now – finally – face justice.’
Trump says the US has captured Venezuela’s Maduro
Donald Trump’s undeclared war in Venezuela against the Marxist regime of President Nicolas Maduro has erupted into the open. Trump…
The New Year’s Eve fire shattered the myth of Swiss invulnerability
This was not supposed to happen in Switzerland. In a country where disasters are meant to be engineered out, risk…
Decline and ‘fall’ of a failed Prime Minister
The fear of the Jewish community was palpable in the lead-up to Bondi
Will 2026 be Rachel Reeves’s year?
Rachel Reeves enters 2026 more unpopular than she has ever been before. YouGov polling from December has 71 per cent…
The National Trust should appreciate its eccentric volunteers
The National Trust has blacklisted a 71-year-old volunteer after he pointed out thousands of spelling mistakes and factual errors on…
David Bowie tore up the definition of pop music
Like many artists lionised by their admirers beyond comprehension, David Bowie – who died nearly a decade ago on 10…
New York is now the most idiotic city in the world
The newly elected mayor of the once-great metropolis of New York City has used his maiden speech to declare that…
Can Iran be saved from the Islamic Republic?
Traders and merchants in Tehran closed their shops in protest and demonstrated against the deteriorating economy and the plunging Iranian…
Wilful blindness
The appalling massacre of Australian Jews at Bondi Beach on the eve of Hanukkah did not come out of nowhere.…
Marvellous Miseries of Multiculturalism
Cut immigration and bring back assimilation or end up as tribal as Beirut
