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In defence of Piers Morgan

14 June 2025 9:00 am

‘What happened to Piers Morgan?’ asked a Spectator writer last weekend. The answer, according to slavishly pro-Israel commentator Jonathan Sacerdoti,…

Portrait of the week: Welfare war, gold prices soar and gang jailed for toilet heist

22 March 2025 9:00 am

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, entertained 29 other national leaders online to seek a way of guaranteeing the…

The world is now inexorably divided – and the West must fight to survive

1 March 2025 9:00 am

One side wants to preserve core Judeo-Christian values; the other, driven by Islamist extremists, seeks to establish a dangerous new world of deracinated individuals, says Melanie Phillips

Who is responsible for the BBC’s Gaza documentary debacle?

22 February 2025 4:31 pm

In 2007, the BBC was engulfed in scandal for an embarrassing – if relatively trivial – misrepresentation of Queen Elizabeth…

What Trump’s Gaza plan means for the Middle East

15 February 2025 9:00 am

Donald Trump told reporters this week that he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to free some of the…

Why don’t Yale students want to drink?

15 February 2025 9:00 am

They say it is good to learn new skills as you get older. Well here goes. I am about to…

Portrait of the week: Andrew Gwynne sacked, Trump saves Prince Harry and a £30m refund over moths

15 February 2025 9:00 am

Home Andrew Gwynne was sacked as a health minister and suspended from the Labour party for making jokes about a…

Students from the Oxford Action for Palestine (OA4P) protest group occupying the Radcliffe Camera on Friday.

Oxford has had enough of its Gaza protests

25 January 2025 9:13 pm

The ceasefire in Gaza may be holding, but student activists aren’t happy. Yesterday, ten students from the Oxford Action for…

Iran’s axis is dying

10 December 2024 6:47 pm

From the hilltop viewpoint at Misgav Am, Israel’s northernmost kibbutz in the Upper Galilee, the view into southern Lebanon is…

The ICC’s rogue prosecutor

26 October 2024 9:00 am

Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of 7 October, went to meet his maker last week. Having spent a year being pursued…

Is Israel ready for a ‘new phase’ of war?

21 September 2024 4:00 pm

The toll wreaked from the events of 17 and 18 September has been extensive. According to the best estimates, more…

Iran and Hezbollah don’t want a war with Israel

26 August 2024 11:38 pm

Hezbollah’s response to the killing of senior official Fuad Shukr, when it finally came, was a more minor event than…

Portrait of the week: riot justice, Olympic success and Ukraine’s Russian advance

17 August 2024 9:00 am

Home Riots subsided after 7 August, a night when many were expected but only empty streets or demonstrations against riots…

Netanyahu’s speech to Congress won’t achieve much

25 July 2024 4:43 pm

Nearly ten months after Israel’s worst day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made history far away in Washington DC when he…

Is Israel ready for war with Hezbollah?

23 June 2024 10:22 pm

Whenever the great Shakespearean actor Sir Donald Wolfit had to exit the stage during a performance, he would always take…

Netanyahu thinks he’s Churchill, Israelis see Chamberlain

8 June 2024 9:00 am

Aleading member of Israel’s wartime cabinet has threatened to resign should Benjamin Netanyahu fail to present a strategy for ending…

Joe Biden’s ceasefire proposal could sink Benjamin Netanyahu

4 June 2024 3:10 am

Joe Biden’s introduction of the three-stage deal to end the war in Gaza was a clever rout to bypass Benjamin…

Netanyahu’s strategy in Rafah isn’t working

29 May 2024 4:56 pm

On 7 April, six months after the October massacres in southern Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the public that…

How universities raised a generation of activists

11 May 2024 9:00 am

It was only a matter of time before America’s student protests spread to the UK. In Oxford, tents have been…

Bugs, biscuits, trench foot: from the front line of the uni protests

11 May 2024 9:00 am

On the grass in front of UCL’s main building, on Sunday night, there were about 30 tents and the portico…

A new survey that may be of interest

13 April 2024 9:00 am

My favourite opinion polls are those which elicit enormous shock in the population for stating something everybody knew for ages,…

The fresh, forceful voice of Frantz Fanon

9 March 2024 9:00 am

The Marxist from Martinique became a rallying figure for anti-colonial movements across the world. But might he have revised his violent message had he lived longer?

Permanent stalemate in Gaza suits Netanyahu

2 March 2024 9:00 am

Jerusalem After midnight on Thursday is dead-time for the Israeli media. The weekend editions have gone to print (newspapers don’t…

It will be difficult for Israel to ignore this ICJ ruling

27 January 2024 8:04 pm

Yesterday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered an interim ruling on South Africa’s genocide case against Israel. Its decision…