Trump has given Zelensky cause for hope

On Volodymyr Zelensky’s last visit to the White House, he brought a gift: a championship belt from one of Ukraine’s boxing legends. But talks...

yesterday 30

Svitlana Morenets

Let down / Owning an Airbnb is hell

I know it can be difficult to have sympathy for anybody who owns a holiday let, but for me and my wife August is often a war between us and the...

yesterday 10

William Cash

Glorious: Good Night, Oscar, at the Barbican, reviewed

Good Night, Oscar is a biographical play about Oscar Levant, a famous pianist who was also a noted wit and raconteur. The script starts as a...

yesterday 7

Lloyd Evans

The Seeds are primitive but magnificent

I have nothing but admiration for those men who burn a candle for the music of 1966. Partly because, like them, I believe 1966 to be pop’s greatest...

yesterday 10

Michael Hann

A Brigadoon better than most of us ever hoped to see

The village of Brigadoon rises from the Scotch mists once every 100 years, and revivals of Lerner and Loewe’s musical are only slightly more...

yesterday 9

Richard Bratby

A new Beethoven cycle to keep – but hide

Grade: C In the 1990s the young Italian pianist Giovanni Bellucci gave us a reading of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata whose thrilling athleticism...

yesterday 9

Damian Thompson

Britain owes America for its ‘free’ healthcare

‘A friend of mine who’s slightly overweight, to put it mildly, went to a drug store in London,’ Donald Trump said aboard Air Force One. Earlier...

yesterday 8

Michael Simmons

Alien: Earth is wantonly disrespectful to the canon

I once spent a delightful weekend in Madrid with the co-producer of Alien. His name was David Giler (now dead, sadly, I’ve just discovered) and...

yesterday 8

James Delingpole

What to do with the last of the summer’s apples

The double-edged sword of eating with the seasons is the glut. A blunt, un-pretty word, which is a joy in theory and delicious in result, but which...

yesterday 8

Olivia Potts

Owning an Airbnb is hell

I know it can be difficult to have sympathy for anybody who owns a holiday let, but for me and my wife August is often a war between us and the...

yesterday 10

William Cash

Raising the colours / When national flags are a warning sign

I don’t quite see the point of flying Union flags in Tower Hamlets, or complaining about it when the council takes them down. This squalid little...

yesterday 20

Rod Liddle

Putin’s trap: how Russia plans to split the western alliance

Though you wouldn’t know from the smiles around the table at the White House this week, a trap has been set by Vladimir Putin designed to split the...

yesterday 20

Owen Matthews

Labour’s first year sees 111,000 asylum claims

When it rains for Sir Keir Starmer, it pours. Now it has emerged that during the Labour lot’s first year in office to June 2025, a whopping 111,000...

yesterday 1

Steerpike

More people blame Tories than Labour for migrant hotels

Migrant hotels have been the talk of the week after the High Court granted Epping Forest district council a temporary injunction on Tuesday –...

yesterday 1

Steerpike

France is in denial about its migrant hotels

The High Court victory of Epping Forest District Council has made news in France. The decision to temporarily block migrants from being housed in...

yesterday 3

Gavin Mortimer

Politics / Nigel Farage is banking on a political sea change

Nigel Farage is adept at riding the currents of British politics. When he named Reform after the Canadian party in 2020, it was a statement of...

yesterday 3

James Heale

Why is Dale Vince comparing Tesla to the Ku Klux Klan?

Perhaps its cars automatically run down people of the wrong colour? Or its batteries will only charge if you put a white hood over the socket? It...

yesterday 3

Matthew Lynn

Why are white children doing worst at GCSEs?

That’s the trouble of trying to measure everything through the metric of race: sooner or later you will arrive at a situation very different from...

yesterday 2

Ross Clark

The Epping ruling is the last thing Yvette Cooper needs

It is another scratchy, difficult week for the government. Inflation is up, to 3.8 per cent in July – the highest level since January 2024. Asylum...

yesterday 2

James Heale

What’s the point of nationalising our steel plants?

We already have Great British Energy, and of course Great British Rail. It now looks as very soon we will also have Great British Steel. The...

yesterday 1

Matthew Lynn

Palestine Action / The oppression of Sally Rooney

Almost a decade ago the Irish academic Liam Kennedy published a tremendous book with the title Unhappy the Land: the Most Oppressed People Ever,...

yesterday 1

Douglas Murray

Dirty tricks have gone too far

Last week, John Power reported on Labour’s alleged ‘dark arts’ strategy: a cynical ploy to damage Nigel Farage and his allies not through...

yesterday 4

George Cottrell

Britain is being pulled under by debt

Britain is slowly drowning in debt. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that in the financial year to July the...

yesterday 3

Michael Simmons

Ad-land’s diversity obsession is seriously backfiring

There was a time when people of colour were not adequately represented in British TV commercials. For many years, despite the UK’s growing black...

yesterday 3

Paul Burke

Britain shouldn’t be cowed by China in the Taiwan Strait

It has only been a few months since Labour’s much-trailed ‘China audit’ – touted as the masterplan that would finally bring coherence to Britain’s...

yesterday 3

Andrew Yeh

Books / I actually feel sorry for Prince Andrew

‘Many would have preferred this book not to be written, including the Yorks themselves.’ So Andrew Lownie begins his coruscating examination of the...

yesterday 2

Alexander Larman

Why your weight loss jab is ballooning in price

‘A friend of mine who’s slightly overweight, to put it mildly, went to a drug store in London,’ Donald Trump said aboard Air Force One. Earlier...

yesterday 2

Michael Simmons

Israel risks rewarding Hamas’s kidnapping

What weapon is stronger than F-16s, drones, targeted strikes, disciplined and war-hardened ground troops, and even nuclear weapons? Hostages....

yesterday 2

Jonathan Sacerdoti

Israel will have to dig deep for its Gaza City offensive

Since the renewal of ground operations in March this year under the Southern Command, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have entered a defining...

yesterday 2

Jonathan Sacerdoti

Dolce vita / How Italy’s ‘new young’ party

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna The Feast of the Assumption began for me just after midnight with a WhatsApp message from my eldest son, Francesco Winston,...

yesterday 2

Nicholas Farrell

Vodka that makes an excellent aperitif

Jack Gervaise-Brazier is a restless romantic. He was brought up on Guernsey, which filled him with a love of islands, but also a desire for wider...

yesterday 2

Bruce Anderson

The decline of Edinburgh International Festival

Edinburgh International Festival was established to champion the civilising power of European high culture in a spirit of postwar healing. But its...

yesterday 2

Rupert Christiansen

The mystical hold of the 1990s over Gen Z

At some point during the past decade and a half, it was decided that the 1990s were a golden age. While Britpop, New Labour and acid house do not...

yesterday 2

Daisy Dunn

Artificial intimacy / Could you fall in love with a chatbot?

Jason, 45, has been divorced twice. He’d always struggled with relationships. In despair, he consulted ChatGPT. At first, it was useful for...

yesterday 2

Lara Brown

I’ve had it with Anselm Kiefer

August is always a crap month for exhibitions in London. The collectors are elsewhere, the dealers are presumably hot on their heels, and the...

yesterday 2

Digby Warde-Aldam

There are glimmers of hope for Iraq’s Christians

It is 43˚C in Erbil, which a friend here describes as ‘cool’. Unlike my first visit in 2015, when Isis was just a few miles from the airport, the...

yesterday 2

Benedict Kiely

The masterpieces on your doorstep

I do not, if I can help it, catch a train to anywhere on a Sunday. Yet there I was at 9.14 a.m. heading out from Woodbridge in Suffolk towards...

yesterday 2

Richard Morris

Arts feature / The masterpieces on your doorstep

I do not, if I can help it, catch a train to anywhere on a Sunday. Yet there I was at 9.14 a.m. heading out from Woodbridge in Suffolk towards...

yesterday 2

Richard Morris

Recipe / What to do with the last of the summer’s apples

The double-edged sword of eating with the seasons is the glut. A blunt, un-pretty word, which is a joy in theory and delicious in result, but which...

yesterday 1

Olivia Potts

Opera & dance / The decline of Edinburgh International Festival

Edinburgh International Festival was established to champion the civilising power of European high culture in a spirit of postwar healing. But its...

yesterday 1

Rupert Christiansen

GCSE English language isn’t fit for purpose

Today is GCSE results day, and as ever that is cause for celebration: one in five entries got at least a grade seven (equivalent to an A). However,...

yesterday 1

Kristina Murkett

What Lewis Goodall gets wrong about inheritance tax

Do you want to live in a world in which you are forbidden from giving things, such as your time, your money or your labour, to other people? It has...

yesterday 1

Andrew Lilico

We need to purge the Ministry of Defence

On Afghanistan, you’ll recall, a massive data breach of vast dimensions and bitter consequences has already been revealed, after years of secrecy...

yesterday 1

James Snell

The small boats are a national security emergency

New immigration data published today has only reinforced what many have known for some time – the current government strategy of ‘smashing the...

yesterday 1

Rakib Ehsan

Books / The greatest military folly of modern times

I don’t want to rain on the new Entente Amicale’s parade; it’s just that whenever we get cosy with the French, military disaster seems to...

yesterday 1

Allan Mallinson

Does not compute / Keep algorithms out of care homes

I manage a small, not-for-profit care home in Norfolk. We have tea rounds, hymn singing, hand-holding and staff who know every resident by name and...

yesterday 1

David Woodgett

Listen: Labour minister’s car crash asylum hotel interview

Dear oh dear. As Steerpike wrote on Tuesday afternoon, asylum seekers will be removed from the Bell Hotel in Essex after Epping Forest district...

previous day 10

Steerpike

Ex-Scottish Labour councillor joins Reform UK

Well, well, well. The Scottish Tories have lost a number of councillors to Nigel Farage’s ranks and now Labour appears to be facing the same fate....

previous day 10

Steerpike

White House joins TikTok – despite US ban looming

To the Land of the Free, where Donald Trump’s administration has been busy, er, setting up a TikTok account. The White House has joined the social...

previous day 9

Steerpike

Rachel Reeves’s ‘mansion tax’ would distort the housing market

Rachel Reeves’s rather crude strategy is becoming painfully clear. Between now and the Budget she intends to float ideas for so many painful tax...

previous day 10

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Trump has given Zelensky cause for hope

Svitlana Morenets

Let down / Owning an Airbnb is hell

William Cash

Glorious: Good Night, Oscar, at the Barbican, reviewed

Lloyd Evans

The Seeds are primitive but magnificent

Michael Hann

A Brigadoon better than most of us ever hoped to see

Richard Bratby

A new Beethoven cycle to keep – but hide

Damian Thompson

Britain owes America for its ‘free’ healthcare

Michael Simmons

Alien: Earth is wantonly disrespectful to the canon

James Delingpole

What to do with the last of the summer’s apples

Olivia Potts

Owning an Airbnb is hell

William Cash

Raising the colours / When national flags are a warning sign

Rod Liddle

Putin’s trap: how Russia plans to split the western alliance

Owen Matthews

Labour’s first year sees 111,000 asylum claims

Steerpike

More people blame Tories than Labour for migrant hotels

Steerpike

France is in denial about its migrant hotels

Gavin Mortimer

Politics / Nigel Farage is banking on a political sea change

James Heale

Why is Dale Vince comparing Tesla to the Ku Klux Klan?

Matthew Lynn

Why are white children doing worst at GCSEs?

Ross Clark

The Epping ruling is the last thing Yvette Cooper needs

James Heale

What’s the point of nationalising our steel plants?

Matthew Lynn

Palestine Action / The oppression of Sally Rooney

Douglas Murray

Dirty tricks have gone too far

George Cottrell

Britain is being pulled under by debt

Michael Simmons

Ad-land’s diversity obsession is seriously backfiring

Paul Burke

Britain shouldn’t be cowed by China in the Taiwan Strait

Andrew Yeh

Books / I actually feel sorry for Prince Andrew

Alexander Larman

Why your weight loss jab is ballooning in price

Michael Simmons

Israel risks rewarding Hamas’s kidnapping

Jonathan Sacerdoti

Israel will have to dig deep for its Gaza City offensive

Jonathan Sacerdoti

Dolce vita / How Italy’s ‘new young’ party

Nicholas Farrell

Vodka that makes an excellent aperitif

Bruce Anderson

The decline of Edinburgh International Festival

Rupert Christiansen

The mystical hold of the 1990s over Gen Z

Daisy Dunn

Artificial intimacy / Could you fall in love with a chatbot?

Lara Brown

I’ve had it with Anselm Kiefer

Digby Warde-Aldam

There are glimmers of hope for Iraq’s Christians

Benedict Kiely

The masterpieces on your doorstep

Richard Morris

Arts feature / The masterpieces on your doorstep

Richard Morris

Recipe / What to do with the last of the summer’s apples