Senate recommends delaying the ‘Social Media Ban’

2 December 2025 11:45 am

The ‘social media ban’ that is scheduled to commence on December 10, 2025, has recently come under scrutiny due to…

Australia braces for the Fergie Files

2 December 2025 11:15 am

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is very obviously SATIRE. Australia has weathered many royal curiosities: monarchs who won’t visit, Governors-General who…

Lane Kiffin did the right thing

2 December 2025 8:34 am

Sports media can’t stop complaining about Louisiana State University’s new head football coach, Lane Kiffin. A cliché tells us what’s…

The day net zero died

2 December 2025 5:07 am

Quietly this afternoon, the government’s last remaining hope of achieving net zero by 2050 drained away. BP has abandoned its…

Prisoners playing video games with their guards is no bad thing

2 December 2025 4:40 am

Another week. Another video from within a prison. More words of outrage. This time it’s a video showing a prison…

Richard Hughes quits as OBR chairman

2 December 2025 4:18 am

They think it’s all OBR – it is now. Political journalists should always be wary of that word ‘inevitable’. But…

Ireland should venerate Chaim Herzog

2 December 2025 2:46 am

The Irish are in many ways the ideal neighbours. They’re quiet, industrious, peaceful, send their best talents to London, and…

OBR probe reveals leak had happened before

2 December 2025 2:40 am

Well, well, well. The official review of the leaked Budget documents that circulated last Wednesday ahead of Rachel Reeves’s fiscal…

Keir Starmer’s Budget defence has surely doomed Rachel Reeves

2 December 2025 1:43 am

You can always tell someone is in trouble when the Prime Minister calls an emergency press conference. A combined force…

Should the police use facial recognition on children?

2 December 2025 1:31 am

Should cops spy on kids? The revelation that police are including surveillance of young people in their expanding use of…

Tulip Siddiq handed two-year sentence in Bangladesh

2 December 2025 12:27 am

All is not well in Labour party at present. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has spent the morning defending his Chancellor…

Starmer defends Rachel Reeves over Budget ‘lies’

1 December 2025 11:29 pm

Much of Rachel Reeves’s Budget was unprecedented: the leaking, the speculation and the OBR accidentally uploading its details an hour…

Why is it taking so long to strip away Andrew’s last title?

1 December 2025 10:46 pm

As Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor contemplates the wreckage of his public life and career, it would be easy to say that his…

Trump was right to snub Johannesburg’s G20 summit

1 December 2025 10:23 pm

The rule of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa since 1994 has been marked by a widening chasm between…

Why the prospect of peace in Ukraine is troubling Macron

1 December 2025 10:22 pm

Emmanuel Macron welcomed Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky to Paris this morning to discuss ‘the conditions for a just and lasting…

Violence is being normalised against the National Rally

1 December 2025 10:20 pm

Jordan Bardella has been physically attacked twice over the past five days. Flour was thrown over him at an agricultural…

Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform

1 December 2025 9:21 pm

Another one bites the dust. Now it transpires that the onetime deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Jonathan Gullis, has…

Slow down Minister, AI roadblock on Route 666 ahead

1 December 2025 8:17 pm

EVs and AI are set to compete for our dwindling Net Zero energy supply

Why nations fail

1 December 2025 7:05 pm

Energy policy is destiny

Dublin’s quiet march toward Judenfrei

1 December 2025 6:26 pm

Dublin’s councillors have seen sense – for now. They were due to vote today on a proposal to rename the…

Pope Leo’s visit to Turkey comes at an uncertain time for the country’s Christians

1 December 2025 5:26 pm

Pope Leo XIV is visiting Turkey and Lebanon on what is his first trip abroad since being elected in May.…

Your Party’s implosion almost makes me feel sorry for Jeremy Corbyn

1 December 2025 4:54 pm

I’ll fight you if you contradict my assertion that The Producers is the funniest film ever made. It’s celluloid perfection.…

If this is Germany’s post-colonial democracy, bring back Bismarck

1 December 2025 2:52 pm

From Hamburg. The only way to cleanse post-colonial guilt is for every person, including immigrants, to give an extensive portion…

A cabinet of ideological tourists who despise our civilisation

1 December 2025 2:35 pm

Australia now runs two governments. One elected, one real...

Cabinet ministers turn on Reeves

1 December 2025 8:05 am

Oh dear. It seems that Rachel Reeves’ Sunday media round has done nothing to answer questions about whether she misled…