Russian forces break into yet another Ukrainian region
Vladimir Putin’s summer offensive is fully under way: all day and night, Russian infantrymen run at Ukrainian positions in endless…
Tim Farron, the last of the old-school liberals
Today the Assisted Suicide Bill returned to the House of Commons. Amid its many flaws and complications, perhaps most important…
Labour MP’s migrants claim contradicted by own government data
Uh oh. Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones has found himself in a tight spot after his Question Time…
Trump has been outmaneuvered by Netanyahu
The surprising thing isn’t that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacked Iran. It’s that the current bombing campaign didn’t occur sooner.…
Jolyon Maugham wades into abortion debate
No one was especially interested in Jolyon Maugham’s take on next week’s abortion amendments, but the Babe Ruth of the…
Israel’s war with Iran is only getting started
With the launch of Operation ‘Rising Lion’, Israel appears to have sought to take advantage of a narrow window of…
The Welfare Bill is too little, too late
How much of the government’s Welfare Reform Bill will survive the mauling of backbench Labour MPs? If this bill even…
Reeves needs to tell the public that they’re wrong
Writing about Britain’s spending plans has started to feel a bit like swimming through treacle. It’s not that there aren’t…
Israel’s Iran attack has done the West a favour
Israel’s overnight strikes on the Islamic Republic of Iran represent the initial salvo of what Jerusalem is calling Operation Rising…
Israel’s attack on Iran marks the beginning of a new era for the Middle East
On 5 June 1967, Israel destroyed three Arab air forces with a devastating pre-emptive strike at the start of what…
Israel’s shadow war on Iran has burst into the open
Woken by sirens outside my window in Israel at 3 a.m. I made my way to the bomb shelter in…
Trial by victimhood has taken over Britain’s courts
We live in a country in which petty grievances and perceived slights abound, and one in which resentments and gripes…
Tackling child poverty may prove a vote winner for Farage
In news bound to make Keir Starmer nervous, voters in 121 Labour-held constituencies with high rates of child poverty are…
How will Iran respond to the Israeli airstrikes?
President Donald Trump was off the mark when he was asked about the likelihood of an Israeli military strike on…
Life is too precious for assisted dying
Assisted dying has attracted for me, and no doubt many other MPs, far more mail than any other issue. The weight of…
What is the point of the RSPCA?
The secretly-filmed footage is a horror show. Hens are desperately trying to escape as they suffocate in a gas chamber.…
The sad decline of reading
At secondary school open days, English teachers are always asked the same questions by anxious parents of year six students:…
Aukus at a crossroads: testing the trust in trilateralism
In 2021, the Aukus security pact was hailed as a bold reconfiguration of 21st Century deterrence strategy – a trilateral…
Productivity Summit: Do we really need a talkfest?
The irony of hosting a talkfest to improve national productivity hasn’t escaped commentary. If there’s more doing and less talking…
An Australasian sceptical note on the effectiveness of Covid vaccines
According to Our World in Data (accessed on 1 June 2025), New Zealand achieved 75 per cent coverage of the…
The renewable empire of waste
Flashback to 2001. The Liberal Party has introduced Australia’s Mandatory Renewable Energy Target within the Renewable Energy (electricity) Act 2000.…
Hogg out: youngest DNC vice chair ousted
Congratulations David Hogg: the youngest ever DNC vice chair has earned the honor of serving the shortest term in the…
Economist accuses Reeves of ‘making up numbers’ in spending review
While certain government departments celebrated Rachel Reeves’s spending review – Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner even threw a party the…
Trump’s birthday surprise – war with Iran?
The Trump presidency is giving us all a type of news-related diabetes. So much sensational information is spewing out of…
The un-American revolution
The riots raging in Los Angeles are an unwelcome present ahead of America’s birthday, which is less than a month…
