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What a brain haemorrhage feels like
Something bad and life-changing happened to me: last October I had a subarachnoid brain haemorrhage and then spent three months…
Is it still possible to be a Jewish Green party supporter?
Is it possible to belong to the Green party and be – ahem – Jewish? (Sorry, it feels like a…
Aunt Bessie did not need a ‘glow up’
Society has always had an issue with women aging. As cosmetic surgery becomes cleverer, more subtle, and more widespread across…
The right has a woman problem
The right has its own unwritten rules of political correctness. There are forbidden words, and while they might not be…
Zack Polanski offers Labour voters the full-fat nut milk
You have to feel sorry for the people of Brighton. No, seriously. In the last two weeks they’ve been subjected…
Can superintelligence save Trump?
Donald Trump’s greatest strength is his indefatigability. The grumblings within his administration grow louder. Inflation is stubborn, the price of…
The four words missing from Zack Polanski’s conference speech
Zack Polanski has just finished his leader’s speech at the Green party conference in Brighton. It has been an extraordinary…
Suella Braverman isn’t racist
Let me get this right: a man can identify as a woman but Suella Braverman can’t identify as non-English? During…
Jenrick is right to take on the shoplifting scourge
Robert Jenrick is back on patrol. In a video released this morning, he confronts multiple shoplifters. One man is accused of taking…
Trump is exposing Britain’s energy folly
Exploiting more of our North Sea oil and gas reserves will make absolutely no difference to our energy security nor…
Inside the murky world of Tether
In July 2014, three aspiring entrepreneurs – Reeve Collins, Craig Sellars and Brock Pierce – launched a startup from a…
Is Peter Thiel right about the problem of Trump’s presidency?
In Trumpworld, there are whispers that one of the boss’s biggest failings is his choice of personnel. Some claim that…
Why is the United States so bad at executing people?
Christa Pike has been on death row for more than 30 years. This week, the state of Tennessee finally tried…
Why Labour hates the Great British pub
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter, Labour’s minister for nature and rural affairs, has been losing sleep. Not over village shops, bus routes, or…
Three ways to get Britain’s economy moving
There was a palpable frustration from the Prime Minister in his Labour conference speech this week. ‘I would love to…
Watch: Robert Jenrick confronts brazen London shoplifter
Robert Jenrick is back out on the mean streets of London, taking shoplifters to task while the Met appears nowhere…
Will France’s school protest movement spread?
The government of France held a crisis meeting yesterday afternoon as a school protest movement intensified in violence. On Wednesday,…
Cornell brings back #MeToo
#MeToo is back – thanks, largely, to Cornell University. A former student, identified only as Jane Doe, alleged in a…
Nine times Tories backed scrapping the triple lock
2017 manifesto ‘The triple lock has worked,’ Theresa May’s election manifesto read in 2017. ‘It is now time to set pensions on…
Pro-Gaza MP casts doubt on Flydubai terror attack
I am genuinely shocked as to the speed of this enquiry by the Israeli spokespeople!!! Normally it takes them months…
Britain is in the grip of a prison capacity crisis
Andy Burnham has released around 700 prisoners early from Britain’s prisons, reducing the amount of time they have spent serving…
No John Swinney, Scotland won’t pay for England’s social care
There’s a question mark over who will pay for Andy Burnham’s proposed national care service – and First Minister of…
The national debt is back with a vengeance
The 5 percent barrier has long since been left behind. This week, the yield on 30-year American government bonds hit…
The urgent questions Burnham still needs to answer
Andy Burnham gave Labour activists fire in their bellies at the Labour party conference this week, showing them emotion and…
Christa Pike should be allowed to live
Coincidentally with the sad passing of Esther Rantzen, who spent her last couple of years campaigning for assisted suicide in…
