When petrol prices rise, motorists notice immediately. The numbers glow accusingly from the service-station sign and another small piece disappears from the household budget. But there is another fuel price that may matter even more to the economy, including to people who do not own a diesel vehicle. Diesel is the fuel that gets into almost everyth...
Indigenous activist Robbie Thorpe wants to prosecute King Charles III for genocide. Having failed in the Victorian courts, he reportedly intends to take his case to the High Court of Australia. There is one rather large constitutional problem with this project. Thorpe wants a court created by the Australian Constitution, exercising the judicial pow...
There is something absurd about proposing a Digital Duty of Care to make the internet safer and then giving the internet-safety regulator statutory authority to operate sock-puppet accounts. No, that is not satire. The Albanese government's proposed changes to Australia's online-safety regime contemplate allowing the eSafety Commissioner to use wha...
His performance as a senior politician aside, I've no personal dislike of Rishi Sunak, a decent, bright man. In 2025 he told Nick Robinson: "I mean, of course I'm English. Born here, brought up here, yeah, of course I'm English". I think he and I could reasonably discuss that. His claim is imprecise. He can say he's English by birth and address, a ...
The BBC has found a new frontier in the war on ordinary life: fingernails that look like fingernails. Late last week the corporation published a piece on the "bare nails" trend, the quiet-luxury habit of wearing short, natural-looking nails instead of a jewel box glued to each fingertip. A London salon owner said clients were asking for it. Fair en...
On Sunday morning, 27 September 2026, a Cotswolds village woke up to armed police, bomb-disposal robots, and an evacuation. Three white vans had been found near RAF Fairford, the Gloucestershire airbase used by the United States Air Force to fly missions against Iran. A farmer called 999 after seeing hooded, masked men and vehicles blocking the roa...
If a mid-sized European country were accused of murdering prisoners of conscience so their hearts, livers and kidneys could be sold on a timetable, the protests would not wait for a UN resolution. Campuses would empty. Newspapers would run the phrase "crimes against humanity" before breakfast. That is not what happened when the same charge was laid...
Trust is becoming one of the scarcest resources in public life. People question global institutions, governments, bureaucracies, medical authorities and, increasingly, artificial intelligence. We are often told that this is a problem with the public: that people have become too suspicious, too difficult, too unwilling to listen. I think institution...
Britons could be jailed or fined for attaching St George flags to publicly owned lamp-posts and railings under new council proposals. Bristol City Council, which has already spent roughly £50,000 stripping flags from infrastructure across the city, is now exploring whether to seek a High Court injunction. The idea is modelled on Oxfordshire County ...
Wealthy Chinese couples are implanting their embryos into American women so their children can be born as US citizens, The Post has learned. The service is provided by a surrogacy agency, Patriot Conceptions, which operates between China and the US and has been accused of hiding details of who the biological parents are from surrogates. Women who c...
Rotherham became almost synonymous with the grooming-gang scandal. That was convenient for anyone who wanted the rest of Europe to regard organised sexual exploitation of vulnerable girls as a peculiarly British failure: incompetent councils in northern England, institutional cowardice, local policing failures and a political culture that was afrai...
Since Labour took office in the UK in July 2024, Home Office figures put small-boat arrivals at about 83,000. The regular Army is about 83,000. Since records began in late 2018 the running total of Channel arrivals has passed 200,000, more than the Army, Navy and RAF combined. A former Navy officer called the Labour-era intake six-and-a-half divisi...
A British classroom is supposed to be a place where children learn to weigh things. They learn that a story has more than one side, that a number can be true and still incomplete, that a slogan is not an argument. That is the difference between education and a recruiting pamphlet. Show Racism the Red Card has been handing schools the pamphlet. Chil...
On Tuesday in Plymouth, Kevin Reddington stood up and asked the question the last five weeks of trial had treated as settled. Where, he said, is the evidence that Lindsay Clancy killed her children? The entire case, he told Judge William Sullivan, was speculation. There was no admission. There was "a total and complete lack of evidence" that "this ...
There was once an Australian bargain so ordinary that nobody thought to call it a social contract. You worked, saved, married, bought a modest house, raised children and eventually paid the mortgage off. The house did not need a cinema room, an infinity pool or a kitchen worthy of a television chef. A quarter-acre block, three bedrooms, a shed and ...
The Wehrdienstmodernisierungsgesetz came into force on 1 January 2026. Male citizens born from 2008 onward must fill in a questionnaire on health, schooling and willingness to serve. Completing it is compulsory for men, optional for women. Then comes the Musterung: a medical exam to grade the body for possible use. The government still says actual ...
There is something remarkable about an age supposedly dominated by "white privilege" producing people who pretend not to be white. The latest extraordinary example comes from Philadelphia. Hannah Gann, a public-school teacher and pro-Palestinian activist, has admitted that she falsely presented herself as Palestinian and Black when she was, in her ...
Nigel Farage says a Reform government would bar foreign nationals from social housing, give those already in it three months to find a private rent, and treat failure to do so as a reason to lose the right to remain. The shriek that followed was predictable. The arithmetic underneath it is not mysterious. England had about 1.34 million households o...
Andy Burnham has asked British security chiefs to build a National Centre for Information Defence: to "detect, attribute and disrupt" hostile information attacks, to work with intelligence agencies, police and social media firms, and to stop a "distorted and untrue narrative about Britain." He announced it at the UN, wrapped it in Russia and deepfa...
Coffee has had a strange medical career. For decades it occupied roughly the same nutritional territory as cigarettes and whisky: a pleasurable vice that respectable health advice suggested we should cut down. Now the epidemiological tables have turned. Coffee increasingly looks less like a guilty pleasure and more like one of those rare cases wher...
