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Britain is paying for Reeves’s non-dom tax disaster

24 June 2025 6:28 pm

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?

24 June 2025 5:00 pm

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?

24 June 2025 4:50 pm

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?

24 June 2025 4:29 pm

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?

24 June 2025 4:15 pm

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?

24 June 2025 4:10 pm

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

24 June 2025 4:00 pm

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

24 June 2025 3:30 pm

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

24 June 2025 5:00 am

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

24 June 2025 4:55 am

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

24 June 2025 3:38 am

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

24 June 2025 3:27 am

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’

24 June 2025 3:03 am

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

24 June 2025 2:20 am

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

24 June 2025 12:41 am

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

24 June 2025 12:13 am

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

23 June 2025 11:28 pm

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

23 June 2025 11:18 pm

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

23 June 2025 11:14 pm

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

23 June 2025 10:52 pm

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

23 June 2025 10:29 pm

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

23 June 2025 10:26 pm

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)

23 June 2025 9:53 pm

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

23 June 2025 9:46 pm

‘Now, splendidly, everything had become clear. The enemy at last was plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast…

Donald’s divine inspiration

23 June 2025 9:43 pm

President Trump appeared in the long hallway Saturday night, flanked by his Three Sons – J.D., Pete and Little Marco…