Watch: Glastonbury crowd chant ‘death to the IDF’
Is this year’s Glastonbury line-up the worst ever? There’s Kneecap, of course: those tough-talking IRA cheerleaders who simply LOVE revelling…
Starmer changes his tune on peerage rules
Sir Keir Starmer seems to be changing his mind a lot these days. Whether it is welfare cuts or the…
Tory MP in new ‘cash for questions’ row
Just how many of the 121 Tory MPs elected last summer will be there by the end of this parliament?…
Lord Falconer’s selective constitutional memory
Good old Charlie Falconer. For more than 15 years now, the noble Lord has been trying, desperately, to ram assisted…
Should we legalize all drugs?
Washington, DC Reason magazine staffers Jacob Sullum and Billy Binion walked away from the Reason Versus debate in Howard Theater,…
Why Keir Starmer is worried about Wales
Keir Starmer’s address to the Welsh Labour conference this morning was exactly the kind of speech we expected. With eleven…
I tensed my bow as the bull elk stared at me
Some 500 lbs of testosterone and pissed-off muscle and bone busted through the fog and the aspens. I drew my…
Why Jews aren’t enjoying Glastonbury
I’ve never been to Glastonbury. As more of a heavy metal girl, it’s not really my music scene and, frankly, I…
Henry VIII turned England upside down
Henry VIII, who was born on this day in 1491, is the only English monarch other than William the Conqueror…
Bridget Phillipson can’t be trusted to fix Britain’s schools
If relationships between Ofsted and schools are already frayed, then we may officially be about to reach the end of…
Tom Skinner and the triumph of Essex Man
As a teenager, my first husband was an Essex Man. It ended badly – all my fault – but I…
Oxfam’s Gaza propaganda
An astonishing email from Oxfam, one of Britain’s oldest and biggest humanitarian charities, dropped into my inbox this week. Dramatically…
Demographics is the new dividing line on the right
It’s an ominous time for a state-of-the-nation conference. Each week, the shores we defended against Hitler, Napoleon and the Spanish…
The dark side of LinkedIn
I’d always assumed that LinkedIn is Instagram for people with lanyards. A place for earnest self-congratulation, polite emoji applause, and…
Australian government lacks courage to create unity
The bombing of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities in Iran under the approval and direction of US President Donald Trump…
War and diplomacy in the 21st Century
It used to be said that war was a continuation of diplomacy by other means. Now we can cut out…
Hiding from Trump
There is something uniquely dispiriting about the Albanese government’s performance on the international stage. It is normal that different Australian…
Has the Great Barrier Reef really become warmer?
Remarkable never-before-published data from 1871 tells a different tale
