What’s the point of foreign aid?

7 March 2025 4:30 pm

The UK signed up to a UN target of spending 0.7 per cent of GNP on aid way back in…

Alfred, the not-so-great

7 March 2025 2:07 pm

Not all cyclones are created equal

Australia’s major and minor parties are divided on Ukraine

7 March 2025 6:05 am

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton are lining up firmly behind their European allies at the expense…

Trump was not wrong about the mice

7 March 2025 4:13 am

The world’s anti-Trump press are awash with laughter over the trans-mice / transgenic mice gaffe from the US President during…

Should the Scottish Tories ignore the Reform threat?

7 March 2025 2:36 am

What do the Tories do with a problem like Reform? Kemi Badenoch’s party in Westminster has some time to consider…

Will the EU ever get tough on defence?

7 March 2025 12:57 am

European leaders are in Brussels today for an emergency summit on defence, and the future of both Ukraine and the…

Watch: Tice forgets names of Reform defectors

7 March 2025 12:51 am

Oh dear. Poor Richard Tice is the latest politician to have an embarrassing memory lapse. During his first trip to…

A tribute to Blair Wallace, a hero of the Troubles

7 March 2025 12:30 am

The names of leading republicans like Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and Bobby Sands are well known, but how many in…

NHS Scotland: call bearded trans staff ‘women’

6 March 2025 11:59 pm

It seems that NHS Scotland still hasn’t learned the lessons from the Sandie Peggie furore. Now it turns out that…

Trump staffers are ‘mid-tier’ and ‘abject,’ says Michael Wolff

6 March 2025 10:49 pm

Who would have thought that Michael Wolff would have another book about Donald Trump in him? UK Books editor Sam…

Is Reform serious about stopping the boats?

6 March 2025 10:22 pm

On no issue are Britain’s established political parties so compromised as on efforts to stop illegal immigrants gatecrashing our borders…

Rupert Lowe’s warning shot to Nigel Farage

6 March 2025 10:12 pm

There is a striking interview in today’s Daily Mail between Andrew Pierce and Rupert Lowe. The Reform MP is known for speaking…

How the Democrats fell into Trump’s trap

6 March 2025 9:59 pm

Fox News’s Brit Hume, one of America’s most respected political analysts, and a man more given to wry scepticism than…

Will Hamas take Trump’s Gaza ultimatum seriously?

6 March 2025 9:41 pm

‘“Shalom Hamas” means Hello and Goodbye – You can choose.’ So began Donald Trump’s furious social media post, an ultimatum wrapped…

Trump’s pausing of intelligence sharing will hit Ukraine hard

6 March 2025 8:15 pm

The United States’s decision to suspend all intelligence sharing with Kyiv is a less visible but almost as serious and…

Macron’s late-night address will infuriate Trump and Vance

6 March 2025 5:54 pm

Emmanuel Macron spoke to his people last night in a television address and told them that the future of Ukraine…

Could ethnic minority criminals soon find it easier to avoid jail?

6 March 2025 5:40 pm

Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, has accused his Labour counterpart Shabana Mahmood of not believing in ‘equality under the…

The Huw Edwards BBC pay saga shows how ridiculous the licence fee is

6 March 2025 5:00 pm

Did anyone really expect Huw Edwards to return the £200,000 he ‘earned’ – or, more correctly, was paid – between…

Fixing our civics education crisis

6 March 2025 4:55 pm

Young people know too little about how our democracy works, and we fail to teach democracy to immigrants. According to…

Can liberalism save the West? Zoomers don’t think so

6 March 2025 3:31 pm

A new poll by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom found 52 per cent of Generation Z, those of us…

Reflections on CPAC: Trump, triumph and hope

6 March 2025 3:06 pm

Change is required if we’re to pave the path to prosperity. The promise and prospect of such change was the…

Why are the Democrats so eager to lose the trans sports debate?

6 March 2025 7:21 am

The Democrats are hellbent on handing President Trump win after win when it comes to the issue of biological men…

The Democrats’ Trump Derangement Syndrome comes home to roost

6 March 2025 6:44 am

The strangest thing happened last night: the Democratic Party, which has built its success in recent years thanks almost entirely…

Trump can’t override everything

6 March 2025 5:09 am

‘There are judges in Jerusalem,’ Menachem Begin is reputed to have proclaimed, following a court ruling which he believed vindicated one…

What does the SNP exodus mean for the party’s 2026 line-up?

6 March 2025 5:01 am

There is little over a year to go until the 2026 Holyrood election and Scottish party selection processes are underway.…