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This peer’s Assisted Suicide speech was truly bonkers
We’re back again in the House of Peers this week as they once again give a leaden beating to Leadbeater’s…
Oxford’s decline and fall is no surprise
What’s the quickest way to make the two most famous universities in the world go wrong? Make it easier to…
Kyiv is running out of money
In all the speculation about when Russia might run out of money to fund its war in Ukraine, one fact…
How the Princess of Wales bonded with Melania Trump
President Trump arrives back in the United States today, and Keir Starmer will have returned to 10 Downing Street breathing…
Nish Kumar has been cancelled – but not for the reason he thinks
Nish Kumar isn’t the first television comedian to throw himself into activist politics in recent times. Another former panellist on…
Julie Burchill, Gareth Roberts and Madeline Grant on what makes Britain great
This month, GQ Magazine asked some celebs what they love about Britain. Names such as Emma Thompson, Anthony Joshua and…
Is Kash Patel up to the job?
The morning after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, FBI Director Kash Patel stood in a Utah conference room, the state’s Governor Spencer…
Borrowing is spiralling out of control
There really is no good news for Rachel Reeves as she prepares her second Budget. This morning’s borrowing figures are not…
Has France become ungovernable?
One million people protested in France yesterday. That was according to the trade unions, who organised the day of industrial…
Will Britain ever join the EU’s defence loan scheme?
Nick Thomas-Symonds holds the venerable position of His Majesty’s Paymaster General, which, ironically as we shall see, was once in…
We need Brian Sewell more than ever
‘Rouse tempers, goad and lacerate, raise whirlwinds’ were the words theatre critic Kenneth Tynan had pinned above his desk. Perhaps no writer…
Why is the Assisted Dying Bill being rushed through the Lords?
One may hardly be surprised that the battle over life and death in Parliament, focused on Kim Leadbeater’s controversial assisted…
Did Trump convince Starmer to see sense on Palestine?
As Donald Trump visited the United Kingdom this week, the press seized the opportunity to confront both him and Keir…
Donald Trump and Keir Starmer make a very strange pair
There is just something innately funny about seeing Keir Starmer and Donald Trump together. Two men so obviously different; in…
Starmer survives another Trump encounter
Every time Keir Starmer meets with Donald Trump, journalists ask each other the same question. ‘Will today be the day…
The masses have had enough
Nearly everybody I know has experienced crime in our cities or had a family member threatened. A few years ago,…
The final act of Israel’s war in Gaza is under way
Israel’s operation to conquer Gaza city is now entering its third day. Two IDF divisions are engaged on the ground.…
Why didn’t TfL publish the truth about LTNs?
Policymakers must, of course, stick to the evidence and base their decisions around proper, peer-reviewed research. Until, that is, the…
Douglas Ross gets in a flap at FMQs
The otherwise run-of-the-mill First Minister’s Questions in the Scottish Parliament came to a dramatic conclusion this afternoon. Before the Presiding Officer…
Rachel Reeves doesn’t get the interest rate cut she was hoping for
The Bank of England has held interest rates at 4 per cent. Threadneedle Street’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted seven…
First illegal migrant deported under ‘one in, one out’ deal
Well, well, well. At long last, two months after it was agreed, the first illegal migrant has been deported from…
Led By Donkeys’s Trump stunt is their lamest yet
Has there ever been a lamer protest group than Led By Donkeys? I’m old enough to remember when protest was…
Tulip Siddiq under scrutiny over citizenship claims
Oh dear. Former government minister Tulip Siddiq has come under scrutiny over former claims she made about holding a Bangladesh…
The problem with ABC’s Matt Gutman
Matt Gutman has the hairstyle of Anderson Cooper and the literary style of Danielle Steel. In a special report on…
Labour will regret repealing the Troubles amnesty law
Fresh from agreeing to surrender the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, the government may be about to reach an equally damaging…
