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Yesterday, the US Department of Education formally rescinded the Biden administration’s 2024 Title IX regulations.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…

'Misogyny isn’t born in hospitals.' Getty

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…

Kemi Badenoch announced this week that she wants to stop some unemployed claimants from buying alcohol, cigarettes and scratchcards with their benefits. Her proposed “back-to-work cards” would…

For a few seconds or a few minutes, it can be a wonderful thing to listen to Barack Obama talk. It’s nostalgic. It means going back in time. It’s like listening to an Aaron Sorkin monologue from The…

Yesterday, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley hit out at the decision to grant bail to a paedophile, allowing him to return to his flat overlooking a play area while awaiting sentencing.…

In 1961, the French academic René Girard outlined his theory of “mimetic desire”, arguing that human desire is fundamentally derivative. We want things because other people want them. Desire, in…

“Raising competent children means trusting them.” (Getty)

We are all stuck with the English Question. (Carl Court/Getty)

Yesterday’s MRP mega-poll from YouGov is a serious blow to Reform UK’s morale. A year ago, when the pollster last used this method to produce a detailed electoral projection, it put Reform way out in…

Is Dan Osborn, the straight-talking industrial mechanic from Nebraska, facing his own “deplorables” moment? Leaked recordings show the independent Senate candidate disparaging Donald Trump voters,…

Historically, the great novels have usually been written by semi-outsiders — people who are admitted to the society they are going to write about, but who are not really part of it. The great Regency…

While the AfD is the largest party across east Germany, a regional exception can be found in Berlin. In last week’s state election, the far-Left Die Linke more than doubled its previous vote share to…

“Burnham’s innovation concentrates power in the hands of civil servants.” (Jonathan Brady/WPA/Getty)

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The latest 11% hike in Scottish drug deaths is a huge embarrassment for the SNP government and its legions of “expert” advisers. For most of the last decade, the party has adopted what it calls a…

Healey has committed to those totemic fiscal rules, under which Britain, uniquely among advanced economies, has imposed an IMF-style program on itself. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

If you’re worried your AI is spinning out of control, do something about it. That might be the sort of response Xi Jinping gives to any request from Donald Trump to slow the progress of the…

By his own account, Democrats’ Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is hosting Kamala Harris on the campaign trail to build a coalition that includes the former vice president and Bernie Sanders…

A leader spoke at the Liberal Democrat conference this week, but it was not Ed Davey. Zoe Hollowood of Liberal Voice for Women opposed the motion on “Restoring Trans Rights”, which demanded the…