What is Israel’s plan for Syria?
Israeli leaders recently made clear that the IDF’s current military deployment into south-west Syria is not intended as a stop-gap…
Why is the UK economy stalling?
Giving evidence to the Treasury Select Committee this afternoon, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey doubled down on a point…
As US border crossings fall, UK small boats hit record highs
Small boat crossings since the start of the year are at a record level. Yesterday 326 migrants arrived, bringing this…
The Special Forces scandal is not going away
What was the most important moment at Prime Minister’s Questions today? It was not the somewhat pedestrian back-and-forth between Keir…
The Chagos deal is a threat to national security
It has been widely reported that, during his meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer last week, President Trump gave his…
PMQs was a façade
A bit of a stitch-up at PMQs, or so it seemed. The ‘opposition’ leader, Kemi Badenoch, ignored her duty to…
Are we forgetting the lessons of VE Day?
There is a grim irony in today’s announcement of the commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day on 8…
Starmer avoids criticising Trump at PMQs
Keir Starmer has clearly decided that the only way to disagree with Donald Trump and his administration without angering the…
Nandy blasts Beeb over Gaza documentary
It’s a day ending in ‘y’ – which means there’s more bad news for the BBC. Now the government has…
Speaker splurges £180k on luxury trips
Is Lindsay Hoyle turning into John Bercow? Mr S first asked the question in January after revealing that the Speakers’…
Trade unions are calling the shots under Labour
Is Angela Rayner really being sidelined in this government, having been steamrollered by the rush for growth championed by Keir…
Can multiculturalism be fixed?
The rape gang scandal that has afflicted Britain compels us to review the assumptions that underlie multiculturalism. It’s time for…
Europe could pay the price for Germany’s debt shake-up
Germany has finally decided to join the party – but Europe may come to regret it. After two decades of…
Europe’s rearmament is off to a feeble start
If there is one silver lining to Donald Trump’s Oval Office bust-up with Volodymyr Zelensky last Friday, it is that…
Cambridge’s Palestine vandals must be expelled
Frustrated by a High Court injunction that prohibits protestors from occupying University buildings in Cambridge so as to block a…
It’s morning in Trump’s America
Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night was the most powerful, rousing, and pointed of…
Trump’s whirlwind Congress speech infuriated Democrats
Donald Trump’s address to Congress last night was made up of his greatest hits since returning to the Oval Office.…
Time for a population policy
Back in 2019, then Prime Minister Scott Morrison, in a foreword to the government report, Planning for Australia’s Future Population…
Trump is a bully but it’s a mistake to stand up to him
Everything they taught you in school is a lie. Carthage was not salted, Canute knew he couldn’t control the tide,…
No Other Land isn’t what it seems
The Oscars, an institution that claims to celebrate artistic excellence, this week played a leading role in a sophisticated and…
Why are we such swine to pigs?
We all know the nursery rhyme about “this little piggy”: one little piggy went to market, one little piggy stayed…
Greggs is a great British success story
Whenever I’m walking down Cornmarket Street in Oxford – an otherwise unlovely thoroughfare – there is something about the spectacle…
Trump bulldozes through joint address to Congress
We’ve been told that President Trump’s address to Congress tonight would dilate on the theme of the “Renewal of the…
Ukraine: the cost of peace
The confrontational meeting between President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and President Donald Trump (and Vice-President J D Vance) has dominated…
Misplaced green energy
Why are we always putting green energy assets in all the wrong places? The main electricity demand comes from big…
