Labour has launched a galling attack on nature

29 May 2025 5:09 pm

During the last Conservative government, it was common to hear the refrain that the prime minister of the day was waging a…

The problem with Trump’s Golden Dome project

29 May 2025 4:53 pm

Donald Trump did not get to where he is today by taking no for an answer. Mark Carney, the Prime…

Anne Hidalgo has ruined Paris – now she wants to be UN refugee chief

29 May 2025 4:00 pm

Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, is being lined up for one of the world’s most powerful humanitarian jobs: United…

A Shadow Cabinet so wet it might drown

29 May 2025 9:54 am

Punishing talented ministers in favour of factional power

Is Trump’s unified Republican front fracturing over Russia?

29 May 2025 4:06 am

For the most part, President Trump hasn’t had to worry too much about the loyalty of his fellow Republicans on…

Mike Tapp: ‘I’ll never insult or belittle someone who votes Reform’

29 May 2025 3:42 am

“I’ll never insult or belittle someone who votes Reform,” Mike Tapp, the Labour MP for Dover and Deal, tells me.…

In ambiguity, Tancredi Di Carcaci finds inspiration

29 May 2025 3:11 am

The narratives we tell ourselves about the past are hardly set in stone. It’s in this ambiguity where Tancredi Di…

Woke society replicates 1970s mice experiment

29 May 2025 2:19 am

In the 1960s and 70s, the American ethologist and behavioural researcher John B. Calhoun conducted an experiment with mice to…

NHS trust offers support sessions over Supreme Court ruling

29 May 2025 12:59 am

The National Health Service is struggling under increasing patient demand to provide quick appointments, A&E support or hospital beds –…

Decriminalising cannabis would be bad for black Londoners

29 May 2025 12:15 am

Sadiq Khan, London’s mayor, has called for the possession of cannabis to be decriminalised, because he believes that the police…

Met chief: release ethnicity data even if it ’emboldens’ racists

28 May 2025 11:29 pm

To the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, who is now calling on forces to routinely release information on suspects’ ethnicities – even…

Has King Charles gone doolally on his Canada trip?

28 May 2025 10:52 pm

I like King Charles. I visited him at Windsor Castle recently as Mrs Miller picked up a gong. The castle…

We need more animal cruelty on TV

28 May 2025 10:38 pm

Animal rights campaigners are up in arms because Disney+ is able to use a legal loophole to broadcast a scene…

Labour’s prison reforms will flop without more police funding

28 May 2025 9:58 pm

The sentencing reforms announced by Labour last week were primarily an attempt to address a capacity crisis. This is something…

Why is Scottish Labour giving Farage free publicity?

28 May 2025 9:41 pm

If the Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar is sincere in wishing to deprive Nigel Farage of the ‘oxygen of publicity’,…

Labour poll share slumps to lowest since 2019

28 May 2025 9:27 pm

Another day, another bad poll for Sir Keir Starmer’s party. Now YouGov has revealed that Labour has recorded its lowest…

What’s the point of fining Thames Water?

28 May 2025 8:59 pm

That should teach it a lesson. The utility giant Thames Water has today been hit with a massive £122.7 million…

Don’t pay the junior doctor Danegeld

28 May 2025 7:45 pm

Who would have guessed that caving into union militancy and paying a whacking above-inflation pay rise, with no strings attached,…

Europe’s far-left terror threat

28 May 2025 7:11 pm

France will increase its surveillance of all critical infrastructure after saboteurs wrecked two electricity sub-stations in Nice and Cannes last…

Trump should ban trans athletes competing against women at the 2028 LA Olympics

28 May 2025 7:00 pm

In threatening on Truth Social to withhold federal funding to California for allowing biological men to compete against women, Donald…

In conversation with Gemini: a $6 trillion renewable transition

28 May 2025 5:51 pm

David: Hello, Gemini. Gemini: Hello David. How can I help you? David: What is the cost of a 1 GW nuclear…

Germany isn’t really cracking down on migration

28 May 2025 4:59 pm

Germany’s new interior minister, Alexander Dobrint of the Christian Social Union (CSU), has made quite a stir with his proposals…

The Liberal and National Party – Paterson v Lawson

28 May 2025 4:03 pm

While the political landscape of Australia has seen numerous battles over the years, between the city and the bush, played…

Badenoch needs to be brutally honest with voters

28 May 2025 4:00 pm

If you think the Tories’ problems would be solved if they ditched Kemi Badenoch and turned to any of the…

Marine Le Pen has got to go

28 May 2025 4:00 pm

It’s time for Marine Le Pen to quit and spend more time with her Bengal cats. More importantly, it’s time…