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NHS Fife’s trans toilet U-turn
Well, well, well. It transpires that NHS Fife – the health board caught up in the Sandie Peggie trans tribunal…
The lost glamor of New York nightlife
Mark Ronson has one of the finest heads of hair in all showbusiness. The music producer’s coiffure is a dark,…
The ECHR cannot be fixed
The interminable, and largely bogus, debate about our continued commitment to the Convention normally concerns its abuse by migrants. This…
Palestinians must regret rejecting Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’
In December 2024, Bill Clinton spoke with a candour that history affords. Reflecting on Camp David in 2000, he lamented…
The sorry record – and uncertain future – of the Human Rights Act
It is twenty-five years to the day since the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) came into force. In that time, human…
Is Randi Weingarten America’s most divisive woman?
In the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a moment when leaders across the political spectrum should be dialing…
Why does Pope Leo think immigration is a pro-life issue?
On Tuesday evening, the Illinois pope weighed in on Illinois politics. A reporter from the Catholic news outlet EWTN asked…
PPE firm linked to Baroness Mone ordered to pay £122 million
Today the High Court ordered a company linked to ex-Tory peer Baroness Mone to pay £122 million to the Department…
Why I hate Paris
It smells, very badly. And even after decades of complaints, it seems Parisians still consider themselves too chic to pick…
Emma Watson is utterly unoriginal
For a long time it was handy dinner party fact that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One (2010)…
Ed Miliband is condemning us to high energy prices
Ed Miliband is wrong. The greatest threat to climate action is not right wing billionaires buying up TV stations, as…
Ed Miliband can’t ban fracking forever
He wasn’t able to announce the £300 off household energy bills that was promised during the election campaign. Nor could…
Is Keir Starmer calling Reform voters racist?
Back in the day – in 1992 – the think tank I worked for commissioned a series of focus groups…
Every time Farage was brought up at Labour conference
Whisper it, but there’s a name on everyone’s lips at Labour conference. A man who clearly seems to be going…
The Bar Council’s black internship scheme is racist
Human beings fundamentally hate blatant displays of unfairness. That’s why most people abhor those who jump or barge into queues,…
Reform’s hypocrisy over Labour rhetoric
All is not well in Reform HQ. On Tuesday, Nigel Farage broadcast a statement where he claimed that Sir Keir…
When will David Lammy learn that Nazi smears don’t work?
Is the Third Reich living rent-free in David Lammy’s head? Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister has accused Donald Trump of being a…
Why has Starmer dropped Blair’s university target?
Last week, Keir Starner swallowed Tony Blair’s argument for ID cards and announced that all we going to be forced…
Who will blink first to end the government shutdown?
The surprising thing is not that the federal government has shut down. It would have been surprising if it did…
The thought of Lucy Letby’s innocence is too appalling to bear
Lucy Letby’s barrister says she has ‘new hope’, as he prepares to submit 1,000 pages of fresh evidence that he…
Labour conference is more deluded than a Doctor Who convention
The Labour conference, given the government’s current levels of popularity – somewhere about the same rung occupied by, say, galloping…
‘Inequality’ isn’t changing children’s brains
Last week, the Office for National Statistics published data showing that income inequality in the UK has fallen to its…
Putin’s dads’ and lags’ army is struggling
The news that Vladimir Putin is pushing for 135,000 new young recruits in ‘the biggest autumn conscription’ for nearly ten…
Keir Starmer gave the speech of his life at Labour conference
The consensus before Keir Starmer’s speech to the Labour party conference was that he needed to make ‘the speech of…
Starmer’s speech was nothing but stale, reheated guff
‘Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel’. So wrote Dr Johnson. Sadly for the good Doctor he was an…
