Last week, Andrew Burnham, along with key cabinet members, flew to New York for the general assembly of the United Nations. The “United” Kingdom’s participation at the “United” Nations must spark questions for those condemned to live in modern Britain. Tell me if I’ve missed any polls that show the general public’s desire for “international collaboration” to take precedence over issues such as, say, the economy and Britain's border. Please, feel free to get in touch. Alas,

Just as Prometheus stole fire from the Gods and gave it to men, J. Robert Oppenheimer “raided Mount Olympus and…brought back for man the very thunderbolts of Zeus.” For this he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity. One can see why Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin’s revelatory biography of one of the 20th century’s most important figures took more than two decades to complete. The book was released in 2005, and the following year received a Pulitzer Prize. This only cam

On Friday, 25 years will have passed since 19 al-Qaeda-backed terrorists hijacked four American passenger airplanes and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the home of the Department of Defense. The fourth plane, the now-famous Flight 93, in which 40 heroic passengers fought back against the jihadists, was downed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, potentially sparing the lives of several more thousand people. In many ways, the September 11 attacks have come to

Andre Agassi's autobiography is aptly named: Open. Open in the honest, raw sense of the word. Or is it a command? "Open me. Read me. Go deeper." Whatever it may be, the book can easily stay open for long periods of time. The prose is a pulsating cannonball, hurtling the words at you, leaving you no time to rest. Sentences are crafted to last, in most instances, no more than twenty or thirty words. Bang! Bang! Almost as if the experience of reading the book was meant to be a r

There has not been a time in human history that we know of that has afforded such unprecedented movement from nation to nation for people. The 20th century began flightless, with a ferry from London to New York taking an average of about a week. And in just 76 years, with the conception of the now defunct Concord flight, this was cut to just three hours, ushering in a new era of fast, globalised travel. During the same century, two world wars took place that fundamentally upe

Andy Burnham has become Britain's 59th prime minister. The fourth in five years, that is. Which is to say that Britain is wielding the executive defenestration button like hardly seen before. Aside from being the most egregiously undemocratic ascension to Number 10 Downing Street, it is even more so a damning indictment of the Labour party's lack of talent and political nous. Once Burnham pulled off his victory in the Makerfield by-election in May, it seemed like a formality

More and more, the gap between the ruling class and the population is yawning wider in Britain, and the signs of the decrepit English state reveal the inane contradictions at the heart of the nation. Take, for instance, the end of hereditary peers in the House of Lords, a 700-year-old tradition in England. Which, although being an arguably justified decision, begs the question: Why continue to have a constitutional monarchy at all? If we are abolishing the right for the land

Three nations sit atop the hierarchy of global political and military power: the United States, Russia and China. On the world stage, they exude huge influence and sway regarding geopolitical issues whilst occupying lands that are blessed with immense natural wealth. However, due to unprecedented levels of debt, economic mismanagement, imperialist attitudes and demographic shifts, each of these countries' power will decline over this century, unless drastic measures are made

Keir Starmer has lost the support of the parliamentary Labour Party and will be immensely lucky to still be leader by the end of May, once the dust has settled on what many are predicting to be a local election wipeout for Labour. His catastrophic error to appoint Peter Mandelson as US Ambassador, despite knowing of his links to Jeffrey Epstein, has proven to be the ever-present thorn-in-the-side of the Starmer premiership, with seemingly constant new revelations coming to li

By most measures, the US, on the surface, is winning the war in Iran: the Iranian Supreme Leader was taken out a few weeks ago, along with much of the head-honchos of the Iranian government; and, according to the US Secretary of Defence, Iran's weapon arsenal appears to be greatly diminished; while the now deceased Ayatollah's son, his anointed successor, is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, much of the country's infrastructure remains a shell of its former self, particularly i

Amongst much of the tosh that came out of HM Government last week, Pat McFadden, the Business and Pensions secretary, announced that as part of a plan to ameliorate Britain's dire youth unemployment, which currently sits at 16.0%, up 14.5% from last year, firms will receive a £3000 grant for every person aged 18-24 who is on benefits and has been looking for a job for six months. McFadden, who himself has never run a business, had to make cuts or had to grapple with the notio

Wars are deceiving things, so the last thing you should do is take the political class by their word when it comes to so-called "motives". And no matter what your thoughts are on Keir Starmer, he at least has the bureaucratic instincts to go through every single government agency, to at least keep us, currently, out of the war in Iran. Which is a good thing, even if it means the UK's prestige on the international stage continues to dwindle into a shell of its once lionised st

Here is my mother, Wendy Whittaker-Large, on the cancellation of council elections in the UK under the Labour government, which is of course purely strategic: It is a shocking fact that in 2025 nine councils had their elections postponed and a total of 5,667,000 people on the electoral register were denied an opportunity to vote. This is due to be repeated in 2026, with 29 councils out of 63 councils involved in local government reorganisation so far requesting to postpone th

Happy New Year to all those on the Gregorian calendar. In the eight days that have elapsed since the start of 2026, much has happened. Starting with: There's your governor New York! Not twenty five years on from America's worst terrorist attack and the head of the state in which it happened is already siding with the religion with which the perps dedicated their life to. My guess is it was the newly-elected Mamdani who, quite literally, green-lit the whole thing, (which would

Importing the third world and becoming the third world seems to be high up on the agenda for Minnesota's political class. If you're unlucky enough to inhabit the rotten and corrupt "Great Lakes" state, Governed by the butchest of butch men, Tim Walz, consider it to be a portend of the America that very plausibly could be: Minneapolis and St Paul, which together are known as the Twin Cities, are home to one of the largest Somali communities in the world and the largest in the

As far as I'm concerned, democracy has no use in a society which seeks to promote and uphold moral and time-proven values. As I said last time, democracy, in the "civilised world" at least, has devolved into a choice between "decline in 70mph or 110mph" every five years, or whenever the hell your country has elections. So what's its value? The point of democracy is for voters to vote for genuine change in a country's leadership. Not merely two candidates fighting over spendi

Doing the rounds online this week was a video of a World War Two veteran on national television, decrying the treacherous state of the country that he fought for: It's easily one of the most emotional and profound indictments on the state of the country. However, the words of Kate Garraway, the lady sat on the left of the betrayed veteran, are, unfortunately, platitudes. "It's our job now to make it the country that you fought for" were here words. Which is all well and good,

If you still watch the BBC (which is becoming increasingly a smaller and smaller group of twerps) and believe that the channel that aired the first episode of Doctor Who in 1963 still somehow maintains its “neutrality” in 2025, you’re in about as salubrious mental health conditions as Joe Biden was on that presidential debate stage last year. Because according to a dossier report issued by Michael Prescott exclusively to The Telegraph, the programme made Donald Trump (45, yet

Few monthsweeks days go by in the "United" Kingdom that are devoid of some sort of heinous violent attack. So here's the latest diversity stabbing: Man arrested after dog walker dies and two injured in west London stabbings Oh, and whadayaknow... ...The Met confirmed that the man arrested was an Afghan national. Government sources said he arrived in the UK on a lorry in 2020. In 2022 he was granted asylum and leave to remain. Before he was stabbed to death, Wayne Broadhurst

You'll know your society has begun to go to bleep when, on the anniversary of one of the worst terror attacks in history, people line the streets in support of such attacks, completely ignorant of the damage done two years on. I'd hazard that even twenty years ago, this type of stuff wouldn't be happening. But as is the wont of Big Government, performing fundamental tasks, like protecting citizens, becomes impossible: "At least two Jewish worshippers were killed and three oth