Day: 15 July 2024

A bunch of books recently have claimed Britain is a failed state. Sure, the Blob could do with a serious trim, says Joanna Gray. But in the most important ways, Britain is brilliant at tonnes of stuff.

A Republican congressman has called the U.S. Secret Service chief a "diversity hire" as he blamed a drive to recruit more female agents for security failings around the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

Immigration fuelled the biggest rise in the population in England and Wales for at least 75 years – almost 610,000 in a year – the ONS revealed today.

The worst political word of our time is ‘delivery’, says Prof James Alexander. It's on the lips of every politician, but this "Amazonisation" of politics completely misunderstands what politics is about.

In recent weeks, Viktor Orbán has spoken to both Zelensky and Putin as part of a self-described "peace mission". For this, European leaders have denounced him and called for the removal of Hungary's voting rights.

French authorities have barred 3,570 individuals out of over 770,000 applicants for the upcoming Olympics, due to concerns over terror links and national security threats.

The failed assassination of Trump represents a security failure by United States Secret Service that is so astounding, it will rightly inspire conspiracy theories for years to come, says Eugyppius.

A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘crises’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.