Could this teenage girl be the next leader of North Korea?
Every authoritarian regime, particularly a dynastic one, at some point has to face the question of succession. North Korea is…
Is weaponised interdependence today’s ‘nuclear deterrence’?
After the end of the Soviet era, Western nations and multinationals built an interdependent global economy on top of US-centred…
Will Trump ‘totally obliterate’ Iran’s nuclear programme – again?
Donald Trump spent much of the second half of last year boasting about the total and utter success of his…
Cartel drones vs Texas lasers
Yesterday, El Paso, Texas, was placed under severe restrictions from the Federal Aviation Administration. For unspecified reasons of national security,…
AI, Engels, Friedman – and a peace treaty with history
If Universal Income is rejected, the state will continue to find ways to intrude
Why was Canada so afraid of misgendering a trans shooter?
A horrible and incredibly sad tragedy unfolded on February 10 in the small town of Tumbler Ridge in British Columbia,…
The case for Antonia Romeo
A few thoughts about the Antonia Romeo furore. This will doubtless not help her at all but Starmer would be…
Starmer pick slammed by ex-mandarin
When a PM is in crisis, what do they do? Sack the head of the civil service. Having lost both…
Jim Ratcliffe has a point about Britain
Jim Ratcliffe is not a polished media performer, and neither does he have an accurate set of UK demographic statistics…
Is there a silver lining in Britain’s dismal growth figures?
Wes Streeting was bang on when he told Peter Mandelson the government had ‘no growth strategy at all’. The Health…
Genocide is not what it used to be
Ongoing claims of genocide perpetrated by Israel have reached the point where it is, in modern terms, normative. That is,…
The question we keep asking after Afghan sex attacks
Why was he here? It’s a question we are forced to ask over and over again in borderless Britain, after…
Why I left London, the city I loved
My friends never let me forget the first time I came to London. They couldn’t understand why I was so…
Britain has an antisemitism problem
Want to know what kind of country you live in? You live in a country in which there are more…
The Covid fad that just won’t die
Fidget-spinners, Pokémon GO, the skateboard, and Covid testing for major sports events – what is the odd one out? Covid…
Keir Starmer staggers on for another day
Sir Keir Starmer is now the Black Knight of British politics. Like the mutilated pugilist of Monty Python, he stumbles around…
Epstein and Lutnick, sitting in a tree?
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick admitted that he went on vacation, with his family, to Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in 2012. How very…
Keir Starmer’s PMQ cluckings convinced no one
Sir Keir got probably the biggest cheer he’s had all year at Prime Minister’s Questions today. Unfortunately for him, it…
The Afghan asylum crime wave has to stop
On 22 July last year, in Nuneaton, a 12-year-old girl was playing on the swings. There she was spotted by…
Downing Street flail over dodgy peerage offence
Just stop Doyle! It was another bad Prime Ministers’ Questions this week for Keir Starmer today. Once again, one of…
Why doesn’t the CDC care about Chinese biolabs in America?
If you rent a cheap Airbnb house in Las Vegas, you might not be altogether surprised to find dead crickets…
Ukraine has entered the grey zone
Kharkiv, Ukraine In a bunker on the outskirts of Kharkiv, a group of rookie Ukrainian soldiers are learning the basics…
Barnaby Joyce passes the pub test
How much money should the government make off your beer down the pub?
Why Jew hate is spiralling out of control
The latest set of antisemitism figures from the Community Security Trust covering 2025 are depressingly predictable. Last year, saw 3,700…
