The Victorian Parliament is in a self-congratulatory state. They have banned machetes. Hurrah! That’s the end of youth crime.

The English cannot assimilate any nation,’ declared the narrator of a French travelogue set in India and published in the ...

Britain intends to follow France, and now Canada, in recognising a Palestinian state in September. I’ve already set out the ...

The most remarkable thing about today’s air traffic control failure, which has led to at least 45 flights being cancelled and ...

There comes a moment for many soldiers – and most politicians – when you realise the battle you think you’re fighting isn’t ...

Yesterday, the High Court allowed Palestine Action to challenge the Home Secretary’s decision to ban it. Since its ...

Donald Trump is, it seems, eyeing up your job. During the US President’s trip up north to visit his Turnberry golf course and ...

On Monday night, New York City golden boy Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor, tweeted, after the terrifying gun ...

Back to Gary Neville, the left-wing right-back who has never met a camera he didn’t like. Just when we thought he’d ...

The Jeffrey Epstein football is still being kicked around the political playground, with passes to and fro, but no goal. Yet ...

Ferdinand Mount has had an illustrious career, including posts as head of the No. 10 policy unit under Margaret Thatcher, literary and political editor of The Spectator and editor of the TLS.

The week’s newspapers have been full of stories about Australia’s latest NAPLAN results. Politicians and education officials ...