“Operation ‘Gideon’s Chariots’, Israel’s latest assault on Gaza, began on the night of 16 May 2025. Sometimes the names of military operations carry a message. Gideon was the biblical liberator of Isr
“BREAKING: NHS waiting lists down again, lowest level in two years.” That’s the latest from Labour’s social media outlets, posted only hours after proper news broke yesterday that resident doctors (fo
The last time I visited Ilford, east London, was in the run-up to the 2017 general election, hoping to help make Wes Streeting the local MP and Jeremy Corbyn the prime minister. It feels like a long t
The July 2024 general election produced one of the most fragmented results in British history: while Labour won a huge majority, it did so on only 34% of the vote. Amidst a falling combined vote share
We fear the wrong terror. This week marked the 20th anniversary of the 7/7 bombings. But the spectacular terror of international jihad has significantly abated. In 2022, the UK downgraded its terroris
Xi Jinping was born into the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) equivalent of royalty. As the son of Xi Zhongxun, one of the first generation of CCP revolutionaries, he was educated at a prestigious boardi
Brexitworld is in a state of outrage. It is bad enough that the French president was granted a State visit to the UK in which there are fancy dinners, speeches to Parliament, meetings with the King an
Nigel Farage and Reform UK are a real threat to Labour and the Conservatives alike. We've heard a lot about the strengths of the challenger party - who would be likely to form the next government if a
Back in March, Rachel Reeves made a telling intervention at Prime Minister’s Questions. As Richard Burgon, the Corbynite MP for Leeds East, demanded a wealth tax in place of disability benefit cuts, R
Pollsters love to taxonomize the British voter. I still remember discovering I was “Jam and Jerusalem” in YouGov’s segmentation of the country for Sunder Katwala’s British Future in 2013. Twee, maybe.
A black man harasses a white woman in a railway carriage, then a white man comes up and punches him. Christians passing through Jerusalem are spat on by Jews, who then boast of killing Jesus. A softly
On the great Afghan leak and cover up, where to start? The answer – the only decent answer – is with the principal victims, the volunteer soldiers, translators, support staff and their families who he
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Keir Starmer’s premiership began with discord, not harmony. Just three weeks after Labour’s landslide victory, seven MPs had the whip suspended for voting in favour of a SNP amendment backing the abol