Israel’s attack on Iran marks the beginning of a new era for the Middle East
On 5 June 1967, Israel destroyed three Arab air forces with a devastating pre-emptive strike at the start of what…
Britain’s Holocaust memorial must focus only on the Jews
The Holocaust Memorial Bill returns to Parliament for its report stage in the House of Lords today. The legislation marks…
The health nutters are winning
The woman two tables from me at a branch of Pret in the City was talking about her chemotherapy. Her…
Keir Starmer is living in a defence fantasy
My son has a penchant for fantasy movies, especially Marvel. It’s an expensive taste. The cinema isn’t cheap once you…
The growing militancy of the BMA
To understand what’s really going on with the latest British Medical Association strike threat – it is currently balloting 50,000…
Badenoch needs to be brutally honest with voters
If you think the Tories’ problems would be solved if they ditched Kemi Badenoch and turned to any of the…
Israel should not listen to Keir Starmer
Benjamin Netanyahu should not be Prime Minister of Israel. It is a stain on Israel’s political system that after the…
Britain is playing into Hamas’s hands
Keir Starmer’s government has suspended trade talks with Israel and summoned the Israeli ambassador over the ‘intolerable’ offensive in Gaza. To be honest, I’m…
Bridget Phillipson is destroying Britain’s education system
Congratulations are due to the Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson. Not many ministers achieve much at all, let alone ticking off…
Keir Starmer is wrong to think immigration is just a numbers game
Should the government set a cap on immigration? Do we need to pull out of the ECHR (European Convention on…
Why can’t the BBC Proms stick to classical music?
Welcome to this year’s BBC Proms, the self-styled ‘World’s Greatest Classical Music Festival’, whose programme was revealed today. Every year…
Why are the police boasting about how useless they are?
If you’ve been in the City of London recently, you’ll likely have seen one of the blue plaques that have…
Why the silence over the MP banned from Hong Kong?
This time last week there was near universal outrage on the left – and even from some Conservative MPs –…
Who cares if Kemi Bandenoch has watched Adolescence?
Watching Kemi Badenoch being interviewed this morning on the BBC, I couldn’t help but think of one of the public…
Labour’s grooming gangs position is contemptible
We do not know exactly how many girls have been raped by so-called ‘grooming gangs’. We do not know the…
David Lammy’s Israel hypocrisy
I suppose we should name it the ‘Lammy Doctrine’, after the Titan of global diplomacy we are so privileged to…
Three cheers to Wigmore Hall for breaking free from Arts Council England
Tonight, I’m going to hear Joyce DiDonato, one of the greatest living sopranos, sing Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise. On Saturday…
Bridget Phillipson has a lot to learn from Donald Trump
Over the past few months, I’ve wished that almost anyone was education secretary instead of Bridget Phillipson, who seems to…
Has the UN hit rock bottom?
The word ‘surreal’ barely does justice to what’s been happening in recent weeks. Quite apart from the possible collapse of…
Why was Syria’s president ever treated like a centrist dad?
There’s an old journalistic maxim: If it bleeds, it leads. But some crucial words are missing from the end: If…
Are we forgetting the lessons of VE Day?
There is a grim irony in today’s announcement of the commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day on 8…
Europe and the death of Nato
There has been no more effective and successful defensive alliance in history than Nato. The unity and determination of Nato’s…
A charity boss cancelled for ‘Islamophobia’ has won an important victory
It sometimes feels as if there is never any good news in the fight to preserve freedom of speech in…
Tory Nimbys are walking into Starmer’s trap
The government has yet to formally announce its widely trailed decision to expand Gatwick, Heathrow, and Luton airports. But that…
