We need to crack down on music on public transport
Hold the front page, sound the alarm, remember where you were – the Lib Dems have come up with a…
Is Notting Hill Carnival worth the risk?
Safety concerns around Notting Hill Carnival are nothing new. During last year’s event alone, 334 people were arrested and two…
The case for chlorinated chicken
As a UK-US trade deal moves closer, an age-old fear is rearing its head once more: that Britain will be…
I’m not surprised crack is being smoked on the Victoria Line
Very little surprises me about Sadiq Khan’s London anymore. It’s now a city in which low-level lawlessness is implicitly tolerated…
I’m sick of social media running bores
The phenomenon of people living their lives vicariously through social media is nothing new. We’ve all got that friend who…
Nigel Farage will regret his anti-Zelensky comments
‘I just thought Reform cared about national borders and sovereignty’. So sighed the journalist Julia Hartley-Brewer at the end of…
The endless entitlement of Waspi women
In this godforsaken era of feigned victimhood, is there any group less worthy of our sympathy than the Waspi women?…
Can Britain defend itself and have a welfare state?
No one can say we weren’t warned. As early as 1971 America was warning that it could reduce its defence…
Donald Trump is making the same mistake as Neville Chamberlain
It is easy to forget how popular Neville Chamberlain was in the autumn of 1938. Proclaiming ‘peace in our time’…
I’m sick of fare dodgers on the tube
Go to any tube station at rush hour in London. Literally any. Then wait by the barriers and watch. Within…
Hollywood luvvies have become Donald Trump’s useful idiots
In events that were foreseeable to anyone outside America’s cultural elite, the actress and popstar Selena Gomez is facing an…
How Donald Trump could really help Ukraine
There was surprisingly little in Donald Trump’s inaugural address about Russia and Ukraine, aside from a vague pledge to ‘stop…
Why didn’t Rishi wait?
So there we have it. Westminster’s favourite parlour game has finally concluded. We now know the date of the general…
Reform is a busted flush without Nigel Farage
Any insurgent political party needs a breakthrough moment. For the SNP, it was Winnie Ewing’s victory in the 1967 Hamilton…
Nigel Farage has left the jungle. What now?
Nigel Farage has left the jungle. For a brief moment it looked as if the original Brexiteer might pull off…
Could Nigel Farage win I’m a Celebrity?
This weekend, Nigel Farage enters the jungle on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! – reportedly for a fee…
Young people are right to hate the Tories
According to the latest YouGov polling, just 1 per cent of 18- to 24-year-olds plan to vote Conservative at the…
What is the point of Ed Davey?
Since being elected as a Liberal Democrat MP in 1997, Ed Davey has been through many phases: conventional Paddy Ashdown…
