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Britain is paying for Reeves’s non-dom tax disaster
Britain will lose 16,500 millionaires this year, taking $90 billion of wealth with them. That’s according to a new report…
Why is the National so scandalised by my Spectator internship?
Last week, I had the privilege of interning with the broadcast team at The Spectator – a magazine that has been stirring…
Why shouldn’t Nato become a subscription service?
Today is the first day of Nato’s annual summit. Some have billed it as potentially the most important meeting in…
Will Iran seize this moment for revolution?
Last night began with dramatic news: the Islamic Republic of Iran had launched a volley of ballistic missiles at the…
Why is Starmer ignoring Britain’s tech sector?
The government’s hotly-anticipated industrial strategy has at last arrived. In it are a handful of bold new announcements, and a…
Will Khamenei accept that it’s over?
It is a fair bet that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s ‘so-called supreme leader’ in the words of president Trump, didn’t expect…
We don’t deserve such an awful tribute to Elizabeth II
The winner of the contest to design a memorial to the late Elizabeth II has been announced, and it’s not…
Brits don’t want digital ID cards
The vexed issue of compulsory ID is, once again, on the cards. ‘BritCard’ is being billed as a ‘progressive digital…
We need to hear from Tulsi Gabbard
Where is Tulsi Gabbard? The country’s Director of National Intelligence has been glaringly absent as the biggest national security story…
David Lammy has nothing to say
The day started badly for David Lammy. Well – we don’t know that for sure – it’s feasible that first…
Reform’s ‘Britannia cards’ will cost £34 billion
Speaking today at Church House in Westminster, Nigel Farage announced that Reform will introduce a ‘Britannia card’ that will let…
Why the US will probably strike Iran again
It was bound to happen. Leaving aside, for the moment, the burning question of whether the US strikes on Iran…
Badenoch: Tories are ‘the adults in the room’
It is a year of two major anniversaries for the Tories. The first is the centenary of Margaret Thatcher’s birth;…
How dare Sally Rooney ‘admire’ Palestine Action
I’m old enough to remember when it was neo-Nazis who smashed up Jewish-owned businesses. Now it’s so-called progressives. Not long…
Keir Starmer needs a new attorney general
A major plank in the Labour Party’s electoral platform last year was its policy of scrupulous obedience to international law.…
Kim Leadbeater’s office blunders again
Oh dear. It seems that the office of the Hon. Member for Spen Valley has put their foot in it…
The NHS isn’t being honest about the maternity crisis
Wes Streeting has announced yet another inquiry into NHS maternity safety: this time a national investigation which the Health Secretary…
Home Secretary will proscribe Palestine Action
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced in the Commons this afternoon that the UK government will proscribe Palestine Action. The…
Farage makes his pitch to non-doms
Reform UK are on the rise – quite literally. The party is planning to move one floor up in their…
How the US bombed Iran’s nuclear sites
Over the weekend, the US Air Force attacked three nuclear sites in Iran in an operation codenamed ‘Midnight Hammer’. According…
Watch: JK Rowling’s favourite BBC presenter
To the Beeb, which is once again making the news rather than breaking it. BBC presenter Martine Croxall caught the…
Israel is right to strike Evin prison
Israel announced today that it has launched an unprecedented strike against regime targets in central Tehran, including the notorious Evin…
How’s Trump doing on immigration? Great! (mostly)
New York Mayor Ed Koch used to ask almost everyone he met, “How’m I doing?” Trump hasn’t asked me “How’m…
Abortion, assisted dying and Britain’s dangerous new politics
‘Now, splendidly, everything had become clear. The enemy at last was plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast…
Donald’s divine inspiration
President Trump appeared in the long hallway Saturday night, flanked by his Three Sons – J.D., Pete and Little Marco…
