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Peter Mandelson and the phoney moral superiority of Labour
When Keir Starmer’s Labour was flung into power by the implosion of the Conservatives, the chattering classes were gripped by…
‘Supermax’-style prisons for terrorists are overdue
David Lammy had a good outing yesterday – they are as rare as hen’s teeth when you’re leading the Ministry…
Will Trump bring about World War Three?
One of the enduring myths about Donald Trump is that he is an isolationist: a president bent on dismantling alliances…
The remarkable courage of 13-year-old Austin Appelbee
Australia has been global news for all the wrong reasons. So it was a relief to hear a story of…
France has a nasty case of Trump Derangement Syndrome
The French IT giant Capgemini has put its US subsidiary on sale because of its association with the work of…
Why Macron has declared war on X
Investigators from the Paris prosecutor’s cyber-crime unit raided the offices of X in the French capital on Tuesday in what…
Peter Mandelson betrayed his country
In 2008, Maggie Darling, wife of the then-Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, invited journalists to a briefing at 11 Downing…
Why Andrew had to be booted from Royal Lodge
The news that the disgraced former Duke of York has been turfed out of his home of Royal Lodge in…
Our prisons are getting worse under Labour
Ever since Labour was elected, every time there has been another disaster in our jails, or another set of terrible…
How did Starmer misjudge Mandelson so badly?
If there is anything less edifying than the newly released emails implicating Lord Mandelson in some very bad behaviour, it…
Britain’s shameful tolerance for terrorism
The news that Shahid Butt, a man convicted of terrorism who served five years for conspiring to bomb the British…
Has AI finally developed consciousness?
Depending on where you stand on AI, 30 January 2026 will go down in history for one of two things.…
Met launches criminal investigation into Peter Mandelson
Once again, Keir Starmer’s government has ended up talking about scandal, rather than policy: something the Prime Minister once levelled…
The Epstein files have exposed the extent of Fergie’s greed
Since the latest tranche of the Epstein files was released over the weekend, the people who have been most embarrassingly…
The new junior doctors’ strikes aren’t about pay
Junior doctors have voted to extend their strikes – by a whisker. Turnout for yesterday’s vote collapsed to less than…
Why are men still in women’s prisons?
The women are at it again. For Women Scotland (FWS), specifically. They’re the pressure group who took on the Scottish…
Wuthering Heights’ race row is the height of nonsense
Most of us associate Wuthering Heights with high school English classes or Kate Bush caterwauling over the moors while exhibiting…
Don’t give up on gold just yet
Anyone who thought that gold, the world’s oldest form of money, was a safe asset that they could tuck away…
David Cameron is right: spiteful Labour is wrecking our schools
Agreeing with David Cameron was not on my bingo card, but politics in 2026 is a funny old game, and…
The British countryside isn’t racist
In the fevered imagination of those obsessed with implementing ever greater ‘diversity’, there is seemingly no object or aspect of…
How to remove Peter Mandelson from the Lords
There was considerable pressure on Sir Keir Starmer this morning to indicate what action might be taken against his former…
A radio licence won’t save the BBC
According to the Times, the BBC – strapped for cash as millions more stop paying the TV licence, and struggling to…
Cricket has banned naughty jokes
English cricket, in its joyless pursuit of moral purity, has banned naughty jokes. There can be no other explanation for…
Colombia can’t give Trump the cocaine crackdown he wants
When US president Donald Trump hurled abuse at Colombia’s president Gustavo Petro last month, branding him a ‘sick man who…
Watch: Starmer’s legal record called out
It’s been a pretty terrible start to the week for the government. Amid mounting revelations from the Epstein files, the…
