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Britain and France are too scared to tackle the migrant crisis
France has overtaken Germany as Europe’s top destination for asylum seekers. During the first quarter of 2025, France registered more…
What do Wes Streeting and Kemi Badenoch have in common?
Labour’s Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch have clashed on many things – from Chagos to…
Can Giorgia Meloni sweet-talk Trump on EU tariffs?
We are about to see how significant a politician Giorgia Meloni really is after she arrived in Washington yesterday evening…
How well are Wes Streeting’s health reforms going?
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has made a lot of promises about the NHS. Before he got into power, he talked…
Putin’s cronies are enjoying needling the West
Sergei Naryshkin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), is in many ways an uncomfortable and ephemeral spy chief, but…
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…
Sleepless in Shangri-La
“You are suffering from what we call an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ effect,” Dr. Sankar informed me as I climbed out…
Could this be the last time I ever have to pay my taxes?
Another Tax Day has come and gone. Here I sit, all broken-hearted. The tax-industrial complex has once again swallowed up…
It’s no mystery how Democrats plan to attack Republicans
It’s no mystery how Democrats plan to attack Republicans over the coming year and a half: tie them to Elon…
Will Sandie Peggie’s NHS board now U-turn?
It’s a big day for women’s rights campaigners, after the Supreme Court this morning backed the biological definition of a…
Helen Joyce shares her joy at Supreme Court ruling
The Supreme Court has unanimously backed the biological definition of a woman. Women’s rights campaigners across the country are celebrating…
Nicola Sturgeon should apologise to the women of Scotland
It is difficult to describe the emotion felt by lesbian and women’s rights campaigners when Lord Hodge announced the outcome…
‘Woke’ was invented by angry schoolgirls on Tumblr
For the first half of the 2010s, any teenage girl in her room had a chance of amassing more political…
Why are student debaters being asked for their pronouns?
When the UK’s biggest school debate competition told us to declare our gender pronouns, I knew my team had lost the contest…
Ministers must now stand up for women’s rights
The highest court in the land was set the task of determining: what is a woman? Today it gave its…
Why did we need the Supreme Court to tell us what a woman is?
How did it come to this? How did we arrive at a situation where it fell to a court of…
Can we go back to calling terfs ‘women’ now?
In a landmark judgment, after years of controversy, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of For…
Trump should have the power to fire the Fed chair
The Chair of the Federal Reserve is arguably the most powerful economic official in the United States. He’s also the…
This legal definition of ‘woman’ has restored sanity to the law
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that a woman is someone whose sex is female. The judgment, handed down this…
The Supreme Court ruling is a victory for women
The Supreme Court ruling on the definition of ‘woman’ in the Equality Act is a victory for women, proper statutory…
There’s an obvious reason pre-school children are falling behind
Something is rotten in the state of British schools. According to primary school teachers, one in four Reception students are…
Supreme Court: ‘woman’ refers to biological sex
To the Supreme Court, which has this morning backed the biological definition of a woman. Today a panel of judges…
Only a US trade deal can save UK pharma from Trump’s tariffs
Forget whisky, cars or chemicals. The real blow to the British economy from President Trump’s determination to impose steep tariffs…
No one needs Liz Truss’s ‘uncensorable’ social platform
Liz Truss, the shortest-serving prime minister in British history, refuses to go away quietly. Her latest barnstorming idea is to…
Why should rich people pay more for their energy bills?
The point of a government energy regulator is supposed to be to make sure that the market is working to…
