Why won’t the government buy the RAF new helicopters?

13 January 2026 10:24 pm

Sir Keir Starmer’s announcement last February that the government would increase defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP from…

This Labour government is fascinatingly awful

13 January 2026 8:47 pm

The eerie and the uncanny fascinate us, whether it’s the abominable snowman, the Loch Ness monster or the Bermuda Triangle.…

Is Reform really becoming the Tory party 2.0?

13 January 2026 8:27 pm

Nadhim Zahawi, the one-time Tory chancellor and former vaccines minister, has joined Reform UK. But is that a good thing?…

The Neo-Nazis are gone. The Islamic terrorists remain safe

13 January 2026 7:37 pm

The National Socialist Network (referred to commonly as the Neo-Nazis), has announced its intention to imminently dissolve before the new…

Why London feels lawless

13 January 2026 5:29 pm

Mark Rowley, the head of the Metropolitan Police, has been discussing London’s crime rates. Rowley it seems, is eager to…

Why can’t a Jewish MP visit his local school?

13 January 2026 5:24 pm

Ruth Wisse defines anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism as ‘the organisation of politics against the Jews’, and in Britain it is striking just…

Where are the Western feminists standing up for Iran’s women?

13 January 2026 5:00 pm

As Iranians revolt against the brutal Islamic theocracy that has throttled their civilisation since 1979, striking images of young Persian…

How much will net zero cost?

13 January 2026 4:30 pm

In the race to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, many Whitehall departments, Westminster thinktanks and independent bodies have produced…

The trust fall

13 January 2026 3:08 pm

Why Australia must rethink its childhood vaccine mandates

Dump Aukus. Build Aujus

13 January 2026 2:30 pm

As a matter of national security, and basic strategic sanity, Aukus should be scrapped and replaced with Aujus. Drop the…

Lords hit back at Chagos deal – again

13 January 2026 9:28 am

When David Lammy announced that the Chagos Islands were to be handed over to Mauritius, it was greeted as the…

Trump is playing geopolitical Monopoly with Greenland

13 January 2026 8:37 am

Donald Trump is playing hemispheric monopoly. Depending on what day of the week it is, the President’s focus alternates between…

The trouble with Jerome Powell

13 January 2026 8:06 am

Lost in the hysterical media bleating about a new criminal investigation into Jerome Powell is any attempt to report fairly…

The conservative case for an under-16 social media ban

13 January 2026 5:22 am

Nearly 20 years ago, encouraged by the Labour peer Lord Adonis, I joined the revolution to create academy schools in…

Starmer’s team could ban Musk’s X

13 January 2026 3:53 am

During Covid, it used to be asked what Boris Johnson the journalist would make of Boris Johnson the Prime Minister.…

Nadhim Zahawi’s defection is bad news for Reform

13 January 2026 12:45 am

Nadhim Zahawi has become the most senior Conservative to defect to Reform. Nigel Farage looked delighted as he welcomed the…

Losing the war on CO2

13 January 2026 12:30 am

‘Unreliables’ are not fit for purpose to power a post-industrial society

Why Nadhim Zahawi joined Reform

12 January 2026 11:52 pm

How many Tories is too many? That’s the question that Westminster is asking after the unveiling of Reform’s latest defector.…

A royal reunion is unlikely if Meghan returns to Britain

12 January 2026 11:48 pm

The name ‘Meghan’ bears a certain resemblance to ‘Me Again’. If the recent newspaper reports are to be believed, ‘Me…

Waiting for our next Menzies

12 January 2026 11:36 pm

Australia is not short of arguments – it is short of confidence. We remain a nation of builders – families,…

Albanese’s Trojan Horse omnibus bill

12 January 2026 11:30 pm

Combatting Antisemitism, Hate, and Extremism omnibus bill set to be pushed through next week

The flaw in Labour’s Brexit delusion

12 January 2026 11:21 pm

The lexicon of Brexit has a new entry: the ‘Farage clause’. As part of Labour’s ‘reset’ talks with Brussels, EU negotiators…

Iran’s uprising and the moral bewilderment of Western youth

12 January 2026 9:55 pm

I’m starting to feel sorry for progressives who are schtum about the revolution in Iran. My contempt for them is…

Met chief insists London is getting safer

12 January 2026 9:28 pm

Ello, ‘ello, ‘ello, what’s all this then? It is a new year but the same old lines from Sir Mark…

Hollywood is all but silent on Iran

12 January 2026 9:09 pm

It was the Golden Globes last night in Tinseltown and as per usual Hollywood’s finest strutted and peacocked on the…