What’s the point of Trump’s cringemaking fawning over Xi?
Moments before President Xi Jinping climbed down the steps of his aircraft to be greeted by Donald Trump, US marines were filmed on their hands and knees smoothing out the red carpet, Chinese officials...
View ArticleIt’s a miracle young people aren’t more unhappy
Since 2014, Oxford University Press has been tracking the Children’s Word of the Year, and the results reveal interesting truths about the emotional landscape young people are growing up in. Children...
View ArticleHorses still have a role in the British army – for now
The Ministry of Defence is a frustrating organisation, secretive, slow to change, often hidebound by process. In one regard, however, the department is always 110 per cent and reaching for the stars:...
View ArticleThe UN is no longer a forum for international peace
Should Russia’s aggressive war on Ukraine, with its accompanying litany of horrific human rights abuses, disqualify it from a seat on the United Nations’ Security Council (UNSC)? That’s what Poland’s...
View ArticleWhy are women giving up on the Labour Party?
A YouGov ‘mega poll’ out yesterday has been making headlines because it shows Reform UK pushed into third place, behind Labour and the Conservatives – a reversal from this time last year. But such is...
View ArticleWatch: Polanski heckled at Jewish by-election hustings
Zack Polanski was heckled by furious residents of Holborn and St Pancras at a Jewish community hustings this evening. The former breast-enhancer was met with boos and jeers as he repeated his claim...
View ArticleAustralia’s OpenAI hack is a wake-up call
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is someone who doesn’t appear on Donald Trump’s radar. Since Trump’s return to the US presidency last year, Albanese has adopted a “don’t wake the bear”...
View ArticleWas Putin planning to attack France, Italy and Spain?
Since CIA chief John Ratcliffe made an unannounced trip to Moscow in late August to meet with his Russian intelligence counterparts, a number of theories regarding the purpose of his visit have...
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Does Britain have the worst air travel delays in Europe?
On Monday a ‘connectivity issue’ at the National Air Traffic Services (Nats) centre in Prestwick caused flight delays and more than 150 cancellations. It came just two weeks after a systems failure at...
View ArticleThe problem with the Tories’ benefits crackdown plan
The Conservatives have had a change of fortune of late. With the latest YouGov polls suggesting that the Tories have pulled neck-and-neck with Reform, even the most sceptical must acknowledge there has...
View ArticleAndy Burnham’s Ministry of Truth
Yesterday, in America, Andy Burnham announced a new policy which has already been met with concern within the US government. Our PM promised to ‘stem’ the ‘poisonous tide’ of ‘industrial-scale assault...
View ArticleAndy Burnham is no statesman
‘Britain is back,’ Burnham declared in his big speech to the UN yesterday. We have been laid low by ten years of Brexit disruption, he told the world. We’ve heard this before: just last year Starmer...
View ArticleLucy Powell: We can’t stop the boats
Lucy Powell said the quiet bit out loud this morning as she all but admitted that Labour has given up – if, indeed, it was ever really trying – on stopping the boats. The Education Secretary was...
View ArticleWhy Putin is unlikely to attend the Miami G20
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has today announced that the United States has invited Vladimir Putin to an upcoming G20 summit in Miami, giving the Russian leader ‘an opportunity to engage not just...
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Can John Healey dodge another round of tax rises?
Ever since bond vigilantes around the world decided it was time to offload their holdings in sovereign debt, Westminster has assumed that tax rises are inevitable. It makes sense. Yields have soared,...
View ArticleThe English are a mongrel people, not an Aryan master race
Talking about what it is to be English seems to have set the cat amongst the pigeons and upset some snowflakes who object to what I have said, particularly the snowflake of snowflakes, Zia Yusuf, who...
View ArticleFarah Ahmed and the useful idiots of Cambridge University
Students of Cambridge University’s gradual self-destruction will recall our disclosure last month that it has appointed as assistant professor a woman called Farah Ahmed, a former senior activist in...
View ArticleIs Andy Burnham being sucked in by AI marketing?
Andy Burnham told Donald Trump this week that we need to ‘rein in AI’, and given who he is getting advice from it’s no surprise. The Turing Institute, a government research institute which has focused...
View ArticleAre the Lib Dems now the party of rearmament?
Ninety years after Liberal leader Archibald Sinclair made the case that military weakness invited aggression, a new generation of liberals is talking about rearmament. At this year’s Liberal Democrat...
View ArticleThe rise of anti-migration direct action in Britain
On Monday and Tuesday, a so-called “mega dinghy” made its way across the English Channel from the coast of Normandy. Originating from the town of Vierville-sur-Mer, near Omaha Beach, the inflatable...
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