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Reform thinks Boris Johnson is finished

22 September 2025 7:47 pm

This morning Nigel Farage will unveil Reform’s latest policy. The party plans to abolish the status known as indefinite leave…

America pays tribute to Charlie Kirk

22 September 2025 5:39 pm

In an exhilarating, often exhausting and unprecedented moment in American history, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in an Arizona…

Macron is abandoning France’s Jews by recognising Palestine

22 September 2025 4:00 pm

France will today officially recognise the state of Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. In justifying…

Starmer risks repeating Britain’s Palestine mistake

22 September 2025 3:32 pm

Britain has formally recognised a Palestinian state for the first time. The Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his announcement yesterday…

Stromboli is at war with goats

22 September 2025 3:00 pm

Those in charge of Sicily have at last swung into action after a quarter of a century of inactivity to…

Is the Democrat party over the hill?

22 September 2025 3:00 pm

Call it a dilemma, quandary, or Catch-22 – just pray the aging Democratic party doesn’t pull a muscle trying to…

Erika Kirk is no handmaiden

22 September 2025 12:41 pm

Contrary to the claims of his critics, Charlie Kirk did not marry a handmaiden. A 2012 Miss Arizona USA, NCAA…

Keir Starmer: UK recognises a Palestinian state

22 September 2025 4:08 am

This afternoon, Keir Starmer declared that the UK now formally recognises a Palestinian state. In a six-minute video, posted on…

Ed Davey: arrest Elon Musk

21 September 2025 11:23 pm

Liberal Democrat party conference – four words which turn the blood of any lobby journalist cold. Yes, it is that…

David Lammy: A Gaza ceasefire ‘lies in tatters’

21 September 2025 11:09 pm

Keir Starmer is set to announce the UK’s official recognition of Palestinian statehood later today. In July, the Prime Minister…

Where is the outrage over the aid trucks hijacked in Gaza?

21 September 2025 10:58 pm

Unicef has confirmed it in black and white: armed men in Gaza hijacked aid trucks at gunpoint, stealing ready-to-use therapeutic food meant…

Can schools force parents to reconnect with their children?

21 September 2025 4:50 pm

Parents must be ‘front and centre’ in their children’s education, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has told schools. Her upcoming white…

What rewilders don’t understand about the British countryside

21 September 2025 3:30 pm

It comes without warning. A black shape shearing out of the sky, a clap of wings like a sail breaking. The…

Starmer recognises Palestine. Where next?

21 September 2025 3:30 pm

Sir Keir Starmer will recognise Palestine as a country despite objections from both the US and Israel. Yet when it…

The mullahs’ grip on Iran is failing

21 September 2025 3:30 pm

Mahsa Amini was killed by Iran’s morality police on 16 September 2022. Her only ‘crime’ was wearing ‘improper hijab’. The…

Crimes that aren’t crimes in New York

21 September 2025 12:24 pm

There were lots of shocked people when state terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione – the man accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare…

Meet Britain’s new RoboCops

20 September 2025 4:05 pm

‘Small but mighty,’ is how Baroness Casey described Bedfordshire Police when she released her report on grooming gangs over the summer. She…

London must break its temporary housing cycle

20 September 2025 4:00 pm

London is often held up as the jewel in Britain’s crown. Yet beneath the city’s gleaming skyline lies a less…

Andy Burnham isn’t the answer to Labour’s woes

20 September 2025 3:30 pm

There was a palpable feeling of euphoria across my home city of Manchester when the Gallagher brothers finally buried years…

Deploying the military won’t stop illegal migration

20 September 2025 3:30 pm

There was a grain or two of truth in what Donald Trump said last week about migration. A polity is…

Lib Dems have an answer for why their party isn’t doing better

20 September 2025 3:15 pm

Whatever the weather, there will be sandals and socks aplenty in Bournemouth this weekend, as the Lib Dems descend on…

Lazy Polish stereotypes are spoiling British films

20 September 2025 3:00 pm

Netflix’s film of The Thursday Murder Club has all the makings of a British export hit: a cosy crime plot, a cast…

Doha attack was a blast from the past

20 September 2025 12:57 pm

Israel’s audacious strike against the leaders of the Hamas terrorist organization in Qatar exemplifies the Jewish state’s new security doctrine…

Robert Munsch’s license to die

20 September 2025 12:56 pm

Once upon a time, there was a hugely successful children’s author named Robert Munsch. His books (more than 70!) sold…

What the Tories should learn from Trump

20 September 2025 4:46 am

Robert Jenrick has warned that he is ‘absolutely terrified’ Britain is heading for a debt crisis ‘unless Rachel Reeves changes…