Christchurch: a time for tears
I attended the funeral service of a Christian minister last year. In the eulogy, his son told us how gentle…
Why Labor’s changes to capital gains fail the fairness test
In the run-up to the next election, the Labor party continues to press the narrative that its proposed policies are…
May under pressure to set an exit date to get her deal over the line
Is this the week Theresa May sets out an exit date for her departure from No. 10? There is hope…
Backwards & Forwards: the week in politics gone, the week to come
Looking back Last Thursday, with millennials convulsed by the unprecedented crash of Facebook and Instagram, New Zealand’s Canterbury Police tweeted…
Michael Avenatti: Why Beto can’t win
Beto O’Rourke is many things. But he is definitely not a fighter. And that’s why it would be a huge…
The identity politics of the lunar right
On Friday 50 people were massacred in New Zealand; murdered by a terrorist who looked at women and children and…
Theresa May’s offer to the DUP
The prime minister’s frantic last attempt to persuade Northern Ireland’s DUP to back her third meaningful vote on Tuesday involves…
It’s all wishful thinking, but boy does it drive clicks
Independent. Always. Ah, yes. That pledge below the mastheads of Nine Entertainment’s left-wing tabloids to give you the sort of…
The Christchurch killer behind the headlines
What makes a man apparently plan in cold blood for two years the mass murder of his fellow human beings,…
Is Jordan Peterson a ‘gateway’ drug to Nazism?
At the recent Lesbians Who Tech summit in San Francisco—no, seriously, it’s a thing— Susan Wojicicki, the CEO of YouTube,…
The Tories are squandering the opportunity of Brexit
In all the madness of the Brexit voting, it’s easy to forget that Philip Hammond revealed a mini-Budget this week. Even…
Portrait of the week: government defeat, the spring statement and a fatal airplane crash
Home The government was defeated by 149 votes — 391 to 242 — on the EU withdrawal agreement presented by…
George Osborne: My campaign to Make Hancock Great Again
The best thing about the Evening Standard going to print at lunchtime is that we can be first to a…
Will no-deal Brexit fears lead to cheaper flights?
Cox’s codpiece Attorney general Geoffrey Cox returned from Brussels without even a ‘codpiece’, the name used by some Tories for…
As the Romans knew, eternal life is hopeless without eternal youth
A research professor has pointed out that lengthening human lifespan threatens to turn us into living zombies unless we can…
Leadership requires imagination, but Theresa May has never displayed any
I had forgotten, until I checked this week, that Mrs May timed the general election of June 2017 in order…
Can the Republican Party finally win over minority voters?
Washington, DC Republican strategists have long complained about how, every election, the Democrats mobilise minority groups against them. Now they’re…
Why I’ve joined the SDP (and why you should, too)
I was down the pub with my wife last week, out in the tiny smoking section, when a woman with…
What you learn standing on a street corner in Beirut
A pale sun had emerged from wintry clouds and the hillsides were topped snowy white. But all around me was…
If you forgive the IRA, then you must forgive the Parachute Regiment too
In my 2010 short story ‘Prepositions’, a woman has lost her husband not in 9/11 but on 9/11 — when…
What shares would a post-Brexit ‘Optimist Fund’ include?
The nation certainly needs optimism this week, so what better moment to start building our ‘UK Optimist Fund’ of shares…
Meltdown: three years on and we are no closer to a Brexit resolution
Almost three years have passed since Britain voted to leave the European Union, and yet we are still no closer…
How likely is an imminent general election?
When a British government loses control over parliament, the natural remedy is to hold a general election. Why prolong everyone’s…
The way to change anti-vaccine campaigners’ minds
What a baffling group of people anti-vaxxers are. They rail against one of the miracles of modern medicine, peddling scare…
The case for prosecuting Bloody Sunday ‘Soldier F’
It is more than 15 years since the Bloody Sunday soldiers last appeared in public. For months I sat in…
