The Washington shooting is a chilling warning to Jews everywhere

22 May 2025 10:06 pm

Waking early on Thursday in London, I read the news on a half-lit phone screen: two people, Israeli embassy staff,…

Miliband’s 2030 clean power target looks increasingly impossible

22 May 2025 9:32 pm

The answer, according to Ed Miliband in an infamously toe-curling rendition of the Bob Dylan song, is blowing in the…

Starmer owes Sunak for halving net migration

22 May 2025 8:37 pm

A year ago today, Rishi Sunak called the general election. Watching the rain-drenched prime minister struggling to deliver his speech,…

Will Wall Street jitters stop Trump’s budget bill?

22 May 2025 8:33 pm

Donald Trump has already caved in on tariffs, pausing the ‘retaliatory levies’ he announced on ‘Liberation Day’ at the beginning…

Is Britain heading for bankruptcy?

22 May 2025 7:48 pm

We can thank Rachel Reeves for one thing: setting up a real-world experiment to show the Laffer curve in action.…

Allowing camping on Dartmoor is a terrible mistake

22 May 2025 7:34 pm

Away from the hamlets and farms that dot the edge of it, the high moor on Dartmoor is a wild…

What we know about the Israeli diplomat shootings in Washington so far

22 May 2025 7:10 pm

The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez, was seen pacing around Washington DC’s Jewish Museum in the minutes before last…

Is Labour tough enough to act on Gauke’s prison review?

22 May 2025 6:45 pm

Uncork the Gauke! In the coalition years, whenever George Osborne found himself in a tight spot as Chancellor, advisers would…

Kneecap member charged with terror offence

22 May 2025 6:35 pm

To Kneecap, the Irish republican band under fire over controversial concert footage – which appeared to show one of the…

Israeli Embassy staffers shot dead in DC

22 May 2025 6:27 pm

Two Israeli Embassy staffers – Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgram – were shot dead outside an event in Washington, DC,…

Can Labour prevent the justice system from collapsing?

22 May 2025 5:40 pm

David Gauke’s long-awaited Sentencing Review is here. If its recommendations are accepted, we will see thousands of people spared jail…

Could the EU sideline Britain in its defence loan scheme?

22 May 2025 5:25 pm

The Security and Defence Partnership which the government agreed with the European Union this week has had more spin applied…

How George Wendt embodied American television

22 May 2025 5:00 pm

The American sitcom Cheers depicted a Boston bar where everybody knew your name, and its most loyal customer, Norm Peterson,…

Trump’s skewering of Cyril Ramaphosa was pure theatre

22 May 2025 4:29 pm

We got another round of extraordinary scenes coming out of Donald Trump’s Oval Office yesterday. During his meeting with ​​Cyril…

Pro-life movement gathers force in NSW

22 May 2025 4:21 pm

On Wednesday May 7, pro-life ‘rallyers’ came together in Sydney outside of the NSW Parliament House to protest the Greens’…

King’s College Cambridge is wrong to cut ties with arms firms

22 May 2025 3:30 pm

Who says that student activism is pointless? Setting up a tent, donning a keffiyeh, and camping out on your university’s…

The Liberal Party’s women problem

While Australians are worried about the housing shortage and how to pay expensive electricity bills, the Liberal Party frets about…

Exclusive: Errol Musk: my son and Trump are right about the ‘white genocide’

22 May 2025 8:14 am

Elon Musk stood silently in the Oval Office, eyeballing the South African president while Donald Trump tore into the ANC…

Watch: Trump confronts South African president

22 May 2025 6:42 am

Just what is it with Oval Office encounters? Three months after his spat with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Donald Trump is at…

The UN’s claim about babies dying in Gaza is unravelling

22 May 2025 3:33 am

Just when you thought Israel couldn’t be any more evil, yesterday we learned that thousands of babies are set to…

Will Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile shield ever be built?

22 May 2025 3:08 am

Donald Trump has outlined his plans for a ‘Golden Dome’ missile defence system over the United States. The aim is…

Monarchism is a real threat to the German state

22 May 2025 2:14 am

Last week a man called Peter Fitzek was apprehended by police. He calls himself King Peter I, and he is…

Forget AI, students are already cheating their way through exams

22 May 2025 2:12 am

College professors like to fondly recall the days before ChatGPT. And, as you listen to them wax eloquent, you could…

Badenoch responded well to Starmer’s winter fuel U-turn

22 May 2025 1:40 am

That hardly ever happens. A major climbdown was announced in the house of commons at PMQs. Sir Keir Starmer used…

Starmer has surrendered to the EU

22 May 2025 1:06 am

Sir Keir Starmer boldly claimed in the House of Commons this week that his ‘reset’ deal with the EU would…