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Do Palestinians want Hamas gone?
Discussion of Donald Trump’s peace proposal for Gaza revolves around one question: who is for it and who is against…
What does Reeves want from businesses?
Is Labour serious about welfare reform? It hasn’t given that impression over the past year, given the flagship welfare reform…
Starmer: is Farage a patriot?
Keir Starmer’s keynote speech in Liverpool was punchier and more powerful than the Prime Minister’s usual interventions. The Labour leader…
The ‘Great Spiritizing’ of the top brass
“Today we end the War on Warriors,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, author of the book The War On Warriors,…
The problem with Labour’s plan for ‘NHS Online’
Party conferences are less about conferring than about speeches and announcements. Today Keir Starmer revealed NHS Online, a virtual hospital…
Bessent’s private message reveals a Milei gamble
The first lesson for Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is that digital photography has totally changed politics, as wiser practitioners have…
Why have Democrats mainstreamed a terrorist?
On September 26, the Chicago Teachers Union, representing all of the teachers in America’s second largest city, posted on X…
Labour’s leave to remain overhaul is thin gruel
Labour is again running scared on migration. At the party’s conference yesterday, Shabana Mahmood made a clear pitch to middle Britain on the subject. ‘You may not…
Labour kick Owen Jones out of conference
Much of Labour conference has seen MPs taking aim at Nigel Farage and his Reform party, but it would appear…
Will Trump turn Gaza into the ‘Riviera of the Middle East’?
There are plenty of legitimate questions to be asked about the Trump-Blair peace plan for ending the conflict with Israel.…
The political climate suits Wes Streeting right now
Timing is everything in politics. So it was intriguing to see Wes Streeting – the great hope of Labour moderates…
Streeting: We need Rayner back
Well, well, well. Angela Rayner may have left the government some weeks ago but the mark she made in one…
Darren Jones blasts Labour’s ‘sluggish’ progress
The Labour party conference has entered one of its final days and as the time ticks on, politicians are finding…
Who will take responsibility for closing schools during Covid?
‘I have never hated someone so much.’ ‘I hope you commit suicide.’ These are just two of the messages I…
Mahmood: Farage is ‘worse than a racist’
To Labour conference, where a number of conversations are being dominated by another political party: Reform UK. New Home Secretary…
Emma Watson won’t recover from JK Rowling’s takedown
JK Rowling has broken her silence on Emma Watson. And if I were the Harry Potter actress, I would lie…
Have we gone to war with Russia without realising?
Has the world turned upside-down? Russia’s former president Dmitry Medvedev, generally known for his toxic social media posts packed with…
Trump’s Gaza peace plan changes everything
In a moment of extraordinary geopolitical gravity, US president Donald Trump has unveiled a comprehensive plan to end the Gaza…
America, where did it go wrong?
Say what you like about Donald Trump’s former adviser, Steve Bannon, but his ‘flooding the zone’ thing really works, doesn’t…
Britain doesn’t need Burnhamism
Britain’s politics has been overrun with populist party leaders in recent years. Nigel Farage has referred to himself as the…
ID cards just aren’t British
A North Korean escapee recently told me about the ‘slavery cards’ he and his fellow countrymen were forced to carry.…
Was Dr. Roberts school board’s ‘Magical Negro’?
When news broke that the head of Iowa’s largest school district was in ICE custody as an alleged illegal alien,…
Trump pitches Gaza peace plan
Donald Trump is perhaps one of the world’s most gifted salesman. But as he was speaking at the White House…
Why is Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl?
The NFL announced on Sunday that Bad Bunny, the musician who just wrapped a residency in Puerto Rico, is now…
Labour conference is a triumph of anti-talent
In German they have a concept whose equivalent is sorely needed in discussion of British politics: ‘anti-talent’. It means exactly…
