The Tories are better off without Andrew Boff
A couple of days ago the Tories lost a Greater London Assembly Member (AM). Andrew Boff, an AM since 2008,…
Burnham needs to realise the EU isn’t the club we left
Andy Burnham doesn’t only want a ‘reset’ of relations with the EU. The Prime Minister has hinted that he is…
Javier Milei’s lawfare against the Falklands
Javier Milei, the embattled president of Argentina, has torn a leaf out of the playbook of 1980s dictator General Leopoldo…
Andy Burnham should steer clear of compulsory voting
This week Baroness Royall, supported by Lords Kinnock, Patten and Blunkett, reintroduced an amendment – to make voting compulsory –…
Middlesbrough’s crime wave exposes the truth about broken Britain
The ugly scenes in Middlesbrough over the last week would not look out of place in a war zone. In…
Testing asylum seekers on the law is a preposterous idea
The Home Office’s pamphlet for asylum seekers published last Wednesday rightly attracted derision. It amounted to a rather pointless reminder…
What would an Epstein inquiry teach us?
Just before Andy Burnham jetted off to the sun this week, his junior minister for victims Alex Davies-Jones announced that…
The big hole in Reform’s naval migration plan
There’s something reassuring about Nigel Farage’s promise to stop the boats by sending in the Navy to return rescued migrants forcibly to…
Cambridge is coming out very badly from the Jason Arday affair
I’ve never met Professor Jason Arday. I don’t know whether he has genuinely run 600 miles in six days. I…
The Gazan family ruling makes a mockery of human rights
The need to think seriously about our membership of the ECHR gets more glaring daily. Some time ago, a Gazan…
The Church of England must leave Gaza alone
The Church of England is a past master of the well-meaning faux pas. On Monday, its General Synod waded full-on into…
The inevitable implosion of the ‘one in, one out’ scheme
We should have seen this coming. It was patent from the start that last year’s ‘one in, one out’ agreement…
Why the crackdown on Raise the Colours might be good news
Oxfordshire County Council stamped down hard on Raise the Colours’ flag-flying operations this week. Having complained that flags on lamp-posts…
The social media ban is stupid and unenforceable
The government’s announcement today of a ban on social media for under-16s doesn’t show it in a good light. The…
The SNP are creating a housing disaster
Scotland faces a housing disaster. Rents are ballooning, especially in Edinburgh and Glasgow; incomes are stagnant; and while its house…
Why did police handcuff Henry Nowak?
Britain’s police are meant to police without fear or favor, but there is plenty of anecdotal evidence that they don’t…
Is this what Lord Hermer really thinks about Britain?
Just when things couldn’t get much worse for Keir Starmer’s premiership, they have. Last week the Telegraph exposed Lord Hermer’s continued…
Don’t punish people for not reporting criminal neighbours
There is much to like in the Fulford report on the Southport affair. It is spot-on in damning the pressure…
Keir Starmer is plotting to bind Britain to Brussels
When Labour came to power, it assured us that Brexit was safe. It never promised, however, to refrain from efforts…
The Green party’s transport plan is pure madness
As you may have noticed, we’ve seen rather more wokery than greenery from the Green party since Zack Polanski took…
The Chagos deal is unraveling
We don’t know what the end of the Chagos affair will be, but it is rapidly spinning into farce. The…
A migration U-turn would bury the Labour party
Immigration has come back to bite the government big time. Shabana Mahmood’s sage campaign to set up Labour as the…
Reform is right to take on the civil service blob
Last week Reform UK scandalised Whitehall. If they take power, they said, they would take a hard look at the…
The EU’s honours list is a sham
The European Union now has its very own honours list, grandly named the European Order of Merit – with gongs…
Don’t blame the ECHR for the migrant phone debacle
Yet another immigration and human rights story scandalised the right-leaning press yesterday. Thirty-odd arrivals who came by boat in 2020…
