As a supporter of the death penalty, I wish the US would just stop executing people. I have quite enough trouble with those who tell me that Lucy Letby — whose case I seek to reopen — would be hanged…

Today, Donald Trump announced in a Truth Social post that “Europe has just agreed to release a massive amount of their heavily stocked Diesel Oil. The process will begin immediately.” The White House…

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has said that joining the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) helped him deal with anxiety. Speaking to Theo Von on the comedian’s This Past Weekend podcast,…

“Britain’s adversaries can call on organized crime networks of Islamists, Iranians or Albanians.” (Getty)

Brussels and Kyiv speak gushingly of their bond in public, but rhetoric can’t change increasingly harsh financial realities. On Wednesday, it was reported that the European Union had rebuffed…

Can he find his voice? (Vuk Valcic/Getty)

“We shouldn’t forget that, in Fiennes’ professional life, he spent years being radically alone.” (Ranulph Fiennes/Royal Geographic Society/Getty)

The fascination that China holds for English culture seems to be growing. The country has long held the perception that England still offers a particular quality and prestige in its historic and…

The Lincoln-Douglas debates, this was not. For an hour, the men vying to become California’s governor attacked each other in a contest whose outcome had already been decided. It had all the drama,…

Today’s mass early release of prisoners and public opinion are two trains going in opposite directions. The Government’s aim is to relieve a prison system set to fall into gridlock within the next 12…

“Leo is no longer a new pope and, a year and a half in, his diplomacy looks increasingly like inertia”. (Vatican Pool/Getty)

As other Western countries modernise their online services, America’s have remained maddeningly clunky. Between a US citizen and a US government service stands a bewildering array of forms and…

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“Everything is safe, solid, and unquestionable. Everything will be the same for ever and ever and ever.” (J.G. Fox/Getty)

This week, it was reported that new guidance from the Crown Prosecution Service will allow prosecutors to call biologically male transgender rape suspects men. Following a legal challenge from the…

There was always something paternalistic about the BBC — and a good thing it was, too. John Reith, its founding director-general, would scarcely have recoiled from the charge. As he saw it, his…

Yesterday, Zohran Mamdani released a strategy to combat rising antisemitism in New York City. As the Mayor noted in an accompanying video, despite making up only 12% of New York City’s population,…

Andy Burnham has spent the best part of a decade telling the public that the devolution of power is key to a successful country. As mayor of Greater Manchester, he frequently argued against power…

Are cultural sanctions any better than book-burning? (Jorge Guerrero/AFP via Getty Images)

Since the United States first struck Iranian military targets seven months ago, Tehran’s strategy has revolved around using the Strait of Hormuz as a trump card to pressure Washington into either…

“One can’t help feeling that it’s feel-good artifacts like this which the paying public will be flocking to see”. (Juergen Teller/Young Pink Kate London 1998/ Juergen Teller, All Rights Reserved)

Astonishing news has arrived from France: Emmanuel Macron is dropping hints that he could run for a third term as president. This can’t be in next year’s presidential election, because the French…

The number of young teenagers identifying as lesbian, gay or bisexual has sharply declined in recent years, according to new data from the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Interpreted…

“We all want to feel smart: that’s what propelled Gladwell to stardom.” (Robby Klein/Getty)

“Hope comes from honesty,” declared Prime Minister Andy Burnham in his speech to the Labour Party Conference this afternoon. We got lots of hope in the usual Labour litany of pledges to build council…

“The foiled weekend attack on RAF Fairford was incubated in the policy gap between the national and post-national versions of Britain.” (Marcin Nowak/Anadolu /Getty)

“The world order needs rebuilding anew”, Miliband told Labour conference. (Photo by Mark Cosgrove/News Images/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Yesterday, the US Department of Education formally rescinded the Biden administration’s 2024 Title IX regulations. Those regulations expanded the law’s definition of sex discrimination to include…

If you were only to read the headlines coming out of the transatlantic security space recently, you’d be forgiven for thinking that a full-scale war between Nato and Russia could start any day now.…

Saturday Night Live returned this weekend with impressions of two targets ripe for satire: Zohran Mamdani and Tucker Carlson. Unfortunately, both were strangely tone-deaf impersonations, raising…

At this year’s Labour Conference, the word “hope” is everywhere. Andy Burnham has said that it is “time for Britain to have hope again”, while Education Secretary Lucy Powell has said her department…

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The Orangemen assemble at Drumcree (Credit: Aris Roussinos)

This weekend the Sunday Times reported that a former bodyguard of ex-Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was granted asylum and later British citizenship, despite his background being a matter of public…

On Sunday morning, an apparent terrorist attack against the Royal Air Force Fairford base was narrowly averted after the arrest of five men in three vans in the village of Whelford. While the police…

Soldiers don't win wars. (Anadolu/Getty)

Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel has said that the AfD is wrong in its positions on Ukraine, Israel, and China. Speaking to Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner on the MDMEETS podcast, Thiel said…

The topic of Britain’s relationship with Europe has returned to frontline politics. Activists arriving at this week’s Liberal Democrats conference would have wondered what Britain’s supposed third…

This week Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s Left-wing Mayor, astonished his conservative critics by doing something they wish they’d thought of. He announced that the city is paying for 70,000 tickets…

Benjamin Netanyahu, judging by his address to the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York earlier this week, is not happy with Britain. Although he hasn’t formally lent his support to…