It’s official. The UK asylum system is, in the words of Home Secretary Priti Patel, “broken.” Well, on one level that makes it like much else in the UK...
Shamima Begum, London born, but currently a resident of Al-Roj refugee camp in north east Syria, is said to be delighted but also “very nervous” about her...
“A single sentence will suffice for modern man,” Albert Camus said. “He fornicated and read the papers.” Well, looking at Scotland’s rapidly declining birth...
The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine, the old adage goes. Well the first part is definitely true.Last week Scotland’s judicial system...
You may have caught sight of U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel gleefully showing off the new, post-Brexit U.K. passport a few days ago.Unlike the old burgundy...
Last time I visited The Daily Star’s comment pages, I predicted that Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party would win the U.K. general election comfortably. Well,...
Terror came to the streets of London again last week. Not for the first time, the murderer was known to police and the U.K.’s security services. British-born...
“We’re going in” roared the front page of British tabloid The Daily Sketch, 63 years ago this month. The headline was announcing what would turn out to be...
Chairman Mao was once asked what he thought would have happened if Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had been assassinated in 1963, rather than U.S. President...
In the end, nothing quite epitomized U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s disastrous premiership better than her ignominious departure. It wasn’t that her time...
When the French philosopher Voltaire was asked on his deathbed to renounce Satan, the avowed atheist famously replied: “My good man, this is no time to be...
“The Iranian regime has a choice,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo thundered this week. “It can either do a 180-degree turn from its outlaw course of...
It’s never a good week for women when Donald Trump is around. I’m not talking about Stormy Daniels, or the U.S. president’s infamous Access Hollywood “Grab...
I wonder what Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman will consider the highlight of his high-profile visit to the U.K. last week. The “outline deal” with the U.K....
It’s hard to ignore Donald Trump on Twitter. But I find it well worth the effort. Why? Because, the U.S. president uses Twitter as a highly effective way of...
The U.K. House of Lords has been dubbed the Bermuda Triangle of British politics. It’s where elderly or unwanted politicians are sent by their party leaders...
It has emerged that one of the four people murdered during the Westminster terror attack in London last week, 75-year-old Leslie Rhodes, used to be Winston...
As official visits go, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip to London earlier this week looked like a textbook lesson in how not to conduct...
If you thought barrel-scraping pandering to populism was limited to political discourse in America think again. While the sickening spectacle of Donald Trump...
The 18th-century satirist Jonathan Swift, author “Gulliver’s Travels,” famously said: “I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not...
To say the political establishment in the U.K. has been rocked to its foundations by last week’s historic vote to leave the European Union is, for once, an...
George Bernard Shaw wittily remarked that “the English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.” If he were...
More than a decade ago, just weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, novelist Salman Rushdie warned that Islam was being hijacked by political fanatics.The...
Fact really is stranger than fiction. What novelist could have penned the tale of the 10-year-old Muslim boy in the north of England who was quizzed by police...
Within hours of the British parliament voting to expand its bombing mission against ISIS to include Syria, British security forces flew into action.Protection...