How Churchill shaped our view of the second world war
When Winston Churchill told Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at Tehran that history would treat them kindly, he spoke…
Long live David Attenborough
Britain can sometimes feel like it’s no country for old men. Our elderly folk get a hard time; they’re blamed…
Net Zero by 2050: nothing but a marketing slogan
A screen grab on Sky News Australia’s Outsiders during the election campaign showed Opposition Leader Peter Dutton saying words to…
For most of the world, VE Day did not mean peace
While drinking, dancing and laughter were the order of the day in Britain on the VE Day, things were not…
Time to say ‘goodbye’ to Welcome to Country
A furore erupted recently over people jeering and booing during a Welcome to Country ceremony on Anzac Day in Melbourne.…
There are too many podcasters and influencers in the White House Briefing Room
It was around 3 p.m. last Tuesday when I’d finally heard enough. Karoline Leavitt, for the love of your movement,…
J.D. Vance makes nice with Munich
It was an emollient J.D. Vance who showed up at the Munich Leaders Meeting in Washington, DC. Gone was the Vance…
Biden has learned nothing from his foreign-policy experience
Historically, ex-presidents spend their golden years on the speaking circuit, writing their memoirs or planning for the inauguration of their…
Dave Portnoy, Mohammed Khan and the anti-Jewish horseshoe
Some dumb people made a dumb decision at a bar in Philadelphia this weekend. In a booth at the Barstool…
Starmer used Kemi’s words against her at PMQs. It worked
Kemi Badenoch tried two ambushes at PMQs. She lambasted Sir Keir Starmer for cutting the winter fuel allowance and leaving…
Reform looms large for Scotland’s Unionists
The last twelve months in Britain have seen a general election, leadership contests, council polls, mayoral races and even a…
Is Shiloh Hendrix the new Luigi Mangione?
When a white mom called a black kid the N-word the immediate expectation was that she’d be canceled, possibly arrested.…
Neither Starmer nor Badenoch got what they wanted from PMQs
Keir Starmer wanted to spend Prime Minister’s Questions talking about the UK’s trade deal with India, while Kemi Badenoch –…
Senior Tory MPs and peers call for recognition of Palestine
Well, well, well. The conflict in the Middle East has caused splits among the Labour lot and now it seems…
A year on, has John Swinney turned things around for the SNP?
It’s difficult to imagine a more cautious revolutionary than John Swinney. When the First Minister was unexpectedly swept into Charlotte…
The trouble with GPs
This week, Wes Streeting – defending Labour’s rise in National Insurance contributions and seeking to fend off the surging Reform…
Is the era of cowardly criminals hiding from court over?
The disconnect between actions and consequences that bedevils this country’s justice system suffered a modest reversal today. The government has…
Real ID is a legislative wisp from the Bush-era War on Terror
The Real ID moment is here, the Y2K panic of 2025. Today is the deadline to update your driver’s license,…
How Cornwall led Europe into the Bronze Age
The first smiths worked with copper and gold. Only when tin came to be added routinely to copper to make…
Watch: Haigh accuses No. 10 of briefing against women
All is not well in the Labour party. After a rather bruising set of local elections for Sir Keir Starmer,…
Goodbye Warren Buffett
It was a mark of respect. After Warren Buffett, who can lay claim to the title of the greatest investor…
France is quietly tightening its citizenship rules
Bruno Retailleau, the hardline French Minister of the Interior, has issued a confidential circular to regional prefects with a simple…
Who is funding Trump’s billion-dollar crypto empire?
By one recent estimate, Trump’s foray into crypto has made his family almost $3 billion in six months and now…
Is nuclear war between India and Pakistan inevitable?
Yesterday evening Indian prime minister Narendra Modi authorised missile strikes on jihadi training camps located in Pakistan’s East Punjab and…
