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Axing the Department of Education will improve education
The big education news this week is a court ruling that allows the Trump administration to begin cutting jobs at…
Labour’s votes for teenagers ruse will backfire
Our economy is on the rocks, legal and illegal immigration remains out of control, public services are creaking, and a…
Lefty MPs accept Glastonbury tickets in freebie U-turn
Well, well, well. It transpires that a number of left-wing MPs enjoyed some time away from their constituencies at this…
Will 16-year-olds vote Labour?
Gerrymandering is as old as the hills, and neither of what have been Britain’s two main political parties for the…
Burghart: It’s the economy, stupid
Most elections are fought and won on the economy. So it is no surprise that the Tory leadership have identified…
Will Labour suspend Diane Abbott – again?
All is not well in Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party. Last night, seven MPs were punished for voting against the…
NHS diversity officer: I don’t know my own sex
The Sandie Peggie case against NHS Fife is only getting stranger. The tribunal resumed on Wednesday morning, after first being…
Rachel Reeves’s tax raid is to blame for rising unemployment
Unemployment has hit 4.7 per cent – its highest level for four years after the Chancellor’s taxes on business caused…
Friedrich Merz is coming to Britain to forget his troubles at home
Friedrich Merz has managed something truly remarkable: he’s simultaneously the most internationally successful German chancellor in decades and quite possibly…
It’s Kamala 2028
Even amidst a news cycle full of Republican infighting, the Democrats are finding new and exciting ways to cut through…
The secret life of Agent Melania
The activities of First Lady Melania Trump have been the subject of much discussion in Cockburn’s circles during her husband’s…
Why Britain secretly imported tens of thousands of Afghans
Some days the British state really does embarrass itself. It can now be revealed that a Ministry of Defence data…
Exploring Edinburgh, from Princes Street to Pitlochry
I’m blinking through floor-to-ceiling windows that perfectly frame a pristine view of Edinburgh Castle, standing magnificent against an improbably cloudless…
Tories end their term on a high
Labour woes mean Tory smiles. The Conservatives have ended the parliamentary session on a (reasonable) high, after last week’s benefits…
Trayon White is DC’s Donald Trump
Cockburn is delighted to announce the special election winner replacing Trayon White (who was unanimously expelled from office in February)…
Starmer takes Labour whip off rebels
After a week of brooding, Keir Starmer has decided to strike. Like Michael Corleone, today he is settling all family…
Trump should bring the Fed to heel
President Trump’s criticism of Jay Powell has increasingly triggered calls for the Federal Reserve’s independence. But those defending Powell’s autonomy…
Bayrou will regret his plan to scrap French bank holidays
The Prime Minister of France announced his plan on Tuesday to balance the country’s books: his most eye-catching intention is…
Life is good in Starmerland. It’s a shame about Britain
It was clearly hot in the House of Commons today. The Lib Dem benches were a sea of pastel colours,…
Keir Starmer is taking Boris Johnson’s approach to PMQs
Keir Starmer joked at Prime Minister’s Questions today that Tory MPs seemed to be on recess already. But he wasn’t…
Foreign national benefits figures are ‘absolute insanity’, fumes Lowe
Well, well, well. It was only a fortnight ago that the government was forced to gut its own welfare reform…
What’s happening in southern Syria – and why Israel is involved
Over the last 24 hours, southern Syria has seen a sharp escalation in violence involving Syrian government forces, local Druze…
Physician associates must be better regulated
Recent years have seen an explosion of a new kind of medical role across the NHS: physician’s associates (PAs). Yet…
Reform will exploit the Afghan scandal to the full
The Afghan data leak is the kind of scandal which is perfect for Reform UK. It involves gross incompetence, profligacy…
Are we sure the Afghan data debacle won’t happen again?
‘Afghanistan’ was the heading of Defence Secretary John Healey’s statement to the House of Commons on Tuesday – a word…
