Why are sports cars being exempted from net zero rules?
You can carry on burning petrol and diesel in your car so long as it is a pricey, niche sports…
Marine le Pen is far from finished
The right rarely take to the streets in France, but thousands gathered in Paris on Sunday to hear Marine Le…
Lammy and Badenoch in row over Israel’s MP ban
Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch are not known to be especially chummy at the best…
In defence of teenage boys
Horatio Nelson passed his examination for lieutenant on 9 April 1777 (possibly with a little help from his uncle, who was…
China is wary of American intentions
In 2024, China exported three times more to the US than the US did to China, and President Donald Trump’s…
The right-wing stupidity repeating Liberal Party history
‘Put the majors last’ is the slogan of low-information, low-effort voters who are fed up with being taken for granted…
Should Marine Le Pen step down?
It was a rally for Marine Le Pen billed as a rendez-vous historique. In the end, barely a few thousand…
Trump’s ‘move fast and break things’ tactic could finally make DC safer
A lot can change in a year. We have a new president, a new congressional majority, a new season of The…
Girl parents should be grateful for the Caitlin Clark effect
The NCAA women’s big championship game takes place on Sunday. A lot of people will tune in – a ton…
Man-made warming: today the room, tomorrow the world
A serious question for voters in this federal election campaign: If climate change is a scientific matter, why wasn’t it…
Albo and Dutton do battle for the Port of Darwin
Leasing the Port of Darwin to a Chinese company for 99 years is easily one of the biggest national security…
Is Trump stoking a global recession?
This week, Donald Trump steered the global economy away from the free trade era that has underpinned growth for decades.…
My Eton tormentor has been jailed
Seeing the mugshot of Old Etonian Douglas Clifton Brown following his conviction for attempted murder, transported me straight back to…
Showing Adolescence in schools lets parents off the hook
Parents are up in arms. The Prime Minister’s decision to allow all state secondary schools to screen Adolescence, the scary Netflix…
Oxford is right to remember its German war dead
The Queen’s College, Oxford, has put in a planning application to add the names of five alumni who died fighting…
I’m woke right. Maybe you are too
Has the very online left, the bane of our times, been usurped by the very online right? It’s a poetically…
In defense of the Disney Adult
For too long derision of the Disney Adult has gone on unchecked. The world has been all too eager to…
Labour MP arrested on suspicion of rape
A former Labour minister was arrested on Friday on suspicion of rape and child sex offences. The Sun on Sunday tonight reports…
Why does Labour assume AI is good?
In close to 30 years in political broadcasting, I’ve never had the faintest idea of what was coming around the…
Why did the BBC say ‘Muslim reverts’?
‘Revert’ as a noun rather than a verb sounds like one of those Victorian terms that went out of fashion…
Demanding a billion dollars from Elon Musk is insane
Pretend you are the European Union. Russia is on your doorstep, side-eyeing its next annexation. Islam is creeping across the…
Javier Milei has cut poverty
Javier Milei has reduced poverty in Argentina. This week brought the publication of a tranche of government poverty figures, covering…
What happened to the Birmingham I love?
My beloved Birmingham, the city I called home for 26 years and where my children grew up, is drowning in…
Israeli students aren’t troubled by ‘microaggressions’
Jerusalem’s Shalem College should have been brimming with life when we visited last month. But this leafy campus was oddly…
