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...

A pill that helps you on its own can trip you when it joins the rest of the cabinet. That is not mysticism. It is chemistry with a marketing department. TrialSite's brief on supplements (link below), that look helpful alone and unhelpful in combination is a reminder older than the supplement craze. Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) called it the mean: virt...

Thomas Sowell has spent much of his long career taking complicated political questions and reducing them to uncomfortable first principles. In a recent interview clip now circulating widely, he does it again, this time in connection with the murder of Charlie Kirk and the increasingly casual use of the word "fascist." Sowell's argument is character...

Modern life has produced a peculiar condition in which being constantly rushed is regarded almost as evidence of importance. There is always another email to answer, another appointment to reach, another task that should have been completed yesterday. Even when nothing genuinely urgent is happening, many people feel uncomfortable slowing down. The ...

Steven Pinker told readers there has never been a better time to be alive: violence down over the long run, life longer, torture out of fashion, the better angels winning on points. John Mac Ghlionn, in The Blaze, notes that this is especially true if you are on the receiving end of Western Europe's taxpayer concierge. Village hotels in Ireland tha...

 If diversity is the greatest strength, that applies too to rape. Britain will dedicate courtrooms to rape because the queue is a disgrace. Pretending the queue has no connection to who was let in is the other disgrace. Every Crown Court in England and Wales is to set aside a room for rape and serious sexual offences: private doors for complai...

A former fund manager lined up 366 Western jurisdictions, fed them through an index of capture, blowouts and institutional stress, and Victoria came first. Not first as in Singapore. First as in the wooden spoon with a ribbon on it. Score: 79.8. Illinois was second. Sicily was third. That is the company you keep when the ballon goes up. Macrobusine...

Forty-three percent of Americans now say they have a positive view of socialism. Among Democrats the figure is 65 percent. Jonathan Turley calls it a fashion cycle: wait long enough and a generation with no memory of empty shelves will try the jacket on again. The slogan this time is warmer. Collectivism with central heating. Imagine the end of lan...