The crippling cost of workplace mental health claims
Leading businessman Ryan Stokes was recently reported in the press as raising concerns about the rapid rise in mental health…
The air traffic control failure looks like cock-up rather than conspiracy
The most remarkable thing about today’s air traffic control failure, which has led to at least 45 flights being cancelled…
Mamdani, the fraud abroad
On Monday night, New York City golden boy Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor, tweeted, after the terrifying gun…
The UK censorship files: Jim Jordan’s crusade against Britain
The British Empire may be gone, but there is one area where the UK has not lost its global ambitions:…
Why I left the Conservatives – and joined Reform
There comes a moment for many soldiers – and most politicians – when you realise the battle you think you’re…
Exclusive: Ex-Tory MP defects to Reform
Reform UK has today unveiled its latest defector. Adam Holloway served as the Conservative MP for Gravesham in Kent from…
Tsunami hits Hawaii and US mainland
Tsunami alerts were triggered this morning across the Pacific after an earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. The quake, one…
The Online Safety Act is plumbing new depths of stupidity
As anyone who has endured a pointless argument on the internet probably knows, there’s a decidedly useful rule for such…
The Online Safety Act and Labour’s ‘ancient’ institutions
After Reform promised to repeal the Online Safety Act, it didn’t take long for Labour to defend internet censorship. ‘And…
UNESCO is America’s toxic ex
“I’m having financial problems,” a long-ago ex-girlfriend desperately messaged me some years after our third breakup, before tossing a convoluted…
Trump suggests he could become Scotland’s next First Minister
Watch out, John Swinney – Donald Trump is, it seems, eyeing up your job. During the US President’s trip up…
Starmer’s Palestine U-turn shows how dangerous he is
We often think of Sir Keir Starmer as the dull bureaucrat, all at sea in politics – a Prime Minister…
Watch: Gary Neville turns his guns on Starmer
Back to Gary Neville, the left-wing right-back who has never met a camera he didn’t like. Just when we thought he’d…
Newsom won’t create abundance
With great fanfare, California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed “historic” legislative package designed to “advance an abundance agenda.” It’s a…
The horror of police involvement in the grooming gangs
However bad you think the rape gang scandal is, it keeps getting worse. Yesterday, the BBC published a detailed investigation…
Few Brits believe minor crimes are properly policed
It’s the second week of Reform’s six-week ‘Lawless Britain’ campaign and there has been some back and forth about whether…
Whitewash at QUT
The Middleton Inquiry, commissioned by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), is a convenient whitewash of accusations of antisemitism made…
‘It’s time!’ to cease ‘Welcome to Country’ performances
What a farce it was in Canberra for the opening of Parliament… At least five different ‘Welcome to Country’ performances,…
Has the IMF changed its tune on Brexit?
Given the perilous condition of Britain’s public finances, perhaps we ought to start taking the IMF and its World Economic…
Starmer’s Palestine policy is perverse
Keir Starmer’s declaration that Britain will recognise a Palestinian state unless Israel takes ‘substantive steps’ to end the war in…
The Met must fix London’s street crime crisis
It’s a statement of the bleeding obvious: London is in the grip of a street crime epidemic. Between 2021 and 2024,…
As a gay man, let me tell you the truth about Section 28
‘As a gay man…’ is a handy signal; in 99 per cent of cases, it tells you that whatever follows…
