The New World

Nigel Biggar – Conservative peer, priest and imperialism enthusiast – is in the Spectator this week, whingeing about touchy types getting upset about racial epithets.

Declaring that “words have no single intrinsic meaning” – which will come as news to generations of dictionary compilers – Biggar claims that “Rod Liddle was smiling down on me last week” as h...

You might be inclined to greet the news that AI has been used to design new viruses with the sardonic comment: what could possibly go wrong? But while there are reasons to worry about the safety of such a seemingly hubristic enterprise, don’t write off the idea too hastily. For one thing, this could be a valuable way to combat the alarming rise of antibiotic-resistant bacte...

Andre Walker – a right wing blowhard presenter on Rupert Murdoch’s little-watched online TV channel Talk – was found guilty of assault this week. Not that you’d find any mention of it in any of Talk’s sister newspapers or on their websites.

Reading Magistrates’ Court heard how Walker lost it when fossil fuel presenter Dr Kush Naker disrupted a dinner at Windsor Guil...

Ragged and burned-out at the culmination of a long summer holiday, no wonder many of today’s mothers look longingly at the pastel-toned, nature-soaked slow lives of tradwife influencers. When your living room appears to have been nail-bombed by the Lego factory, there’s a certain allure to the possibility of a life that includes total focus on your family’s health and wellb...

Thursday night – or, at least, the early hours of Friday morning – was supposed to be a triumph for Nigel Farage.

Facing a parliamentary investigation into his decision to accept a £5 million gift from Reform UK’s largest donor, and then to fail to disclose it as almost everyone except him believes to be required, Farage decided to take back control of the process, ...