A marriage of inconvenience: The Bride Stone, by Sally Gardner, reviewed
His capricious father’s will leaves a young English doctor needing to find a wife within two days and seven hours of his return home from revolutionary France
The mixed legacy of Zbigniew Brzezinski, strategist of the Cold War
Successful initiatives during the Carter presidency regarding the USSR, China and Afghanistan were counterbalanced by a serious misreading of the situation in Iran
Assassinations have an awkward tendency to backfire
A prime example – the murder of the SS officer Reinhard Heydrich in 1942 – may have been a technical success for SOE, but brutal reprisals made it an operational disaster
The problems with a state of Palestine
France intends to recognise a state of Palestine at the United Nations, which I’m sure will be followed by UK…
The BMA should be careful what it wishes for
Just a few weeks ago the trade union movement seemed to be on a high. It has got rid of…
Will Starmer recognise a Palestinian state?
Keir Starmer is facing mounting international and domestic pressure to formally recognise a Palestinian state. Dozens of MPs are expected…
Elites keep making education about themselves
This month, Congress put school-choice funding on offer to the states as part of the Big Beautiful Bill. Progressives have…
The BBC has finally done something right
This isn’t a sentiment you’ll have read much in recent weeks, given the BBC’s series of appalling misjudgements and editorial…
Scotland bends the knee to Trump
Donald Trump touches down in Scotland today on what is ostensibly a private visit to open an 18-hole golf course…
The Tories face trouble in London
Friday morning brings with it the usual raft of council by-election results. It has been another good night for Reform…
Why are the Macrons suing Candace Owens?
As bizarre conspiracy theories go, the rumours about France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron take some beating. The stories that have…
Who knows Iran best?
In a recent interview, Tucker Carlson sat across from Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, asking polite, unchallenging questions of a man…
How Spain’s anti-migrant riots sparked speech controls in Europe
The recent antisemitic attacks in Melbourne (and indeed, throughout Australia) and Jillian Segal’s report, Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism,…
Australia’s story is one of success, for now
Australia’s construction industry is hopelessly dysfunctional, damaged by ‘disdain for the law’ and ‘frequent resort to practices of thuggery and…
