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Keir Starmer: Reform’s migration policy is ‘racist’
Labour conference has begun this weekend in Liverpool under something of a cloud. The run-up to the five-day shindig has…
Starmer officially most unpopular PM ever
Oh dear. It seems that Keir Starmer’s great big conference reset is beginning well. A blizzard of new polls have…
Harry and Charles’s ‘reunion’ will never be free from sabotage
There has been a recurring theme when it comes to meetings between the Duke of Sussex and his now estranged…
Is Georgia still willing to fight for its democracy?
On 4 October, voters in Georgia will be called to the polls to vote in the country’s municipal elections and…
St George’s flags and the myth of ‘Scouse not English’
Operation Raise the Colours, a grassroots movement to adorn our towns and cities with England flags, has swept across the…
The Netherlands has a wolf problem
Bram and Hubertus are marked for death. Camouflage-clad government marksmen – licensed but anonymous, for security reasons – are hunting them…
What is Putin’s game?
What happens when you boil a frog? It doesn’t notice the warming water until it is too late. According to…
The Hack is proof Jack Thorne needs a break
When ITV executives commissioned The Hack, the new drama series dealing with the News International phone hacking scandal, they surely…
Are central bankers too powerful?
Donald Trump’s political and legal assault on the Federal Reserve has provoked concern and indignation from the defenders of central…
Will America outlaw Sharia law?
Florida Representative Randy Fine and Texas Representative Keith Self introduced the “No Sharia Act” last weekend in the U.S. House…
American sports fans are an embarrassment
Transatlantic tensions and heckling boiled over at the Ryder Cup Saturday, with multiple fans reportedly escorted off the property at…
Des Moines school superintendent is not a victim of ICE
When the superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district was detained by ICE on Friday, the story startled parents, educators and…
The immortal beauty of Claudia Cardinale
Claudia Cardinale, who died this week aged 89, was one of few Italian actresses to achieve global stardom along with…
We are all witches now
Two days before Charlie Kirk was murdered, Claire Guinan, a writer for the US women’s website Jezebel, paid witches online…
Panic and plotting inside Labour conference
The Labour party returns to Liverpool this weekend for its annual four-day jamboree. Twelve months after a dismal conference, dominated…
Time for the House of York to fall
It is tempting to imagine Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson enduring a mutually resentful existence in Royal Lodge. Like an aristocratic version…
Labour spinners have a lot to learn from Reform
Ed Miliband once said of Lord Mandelson that he was ‘his own worst spin doctor’. Even that might be preferable…
They don’t make MPs like Ming Campbell any more
Tributes are pouring in for Menzies Campbell, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, and generally considered a decent chap for…
Tony Blair will not be welcome in Gaza
During an earlier Gaza war, I spoke to families who had fled the fighting but whose place of refuge –…
The plight of Germany’s powerless centrists
Germany is a tense country these days. Conversations with friends and relatives there invariably turn to politics, and, when they…
Did Ilhan Omar marry her brother?
In as Trumpian a fashion as it gets, the president has rekindled the years-long debate: Did progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar…
Gavin Newsom’s fossil-fuel flip-flop
Gavin Newsom once touted California as the fossil fuel industry’s “foe.” In 2024 he declared energy workers “the polluted heart…
Why black voters won’t come around to Mamdani
When Zohran Mamdani took the pulpit at Brooklyn’s Bethany Baptist Church last Sunday, he had a golden opportunity. He could…
Retribution looms for the NeverTrumpers
“My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump,” says James…
Is Labour trying to kill the gambling industry?
It seems Labour will not rest until the gambling industry is dead and buried. In the latest attack, more than…
