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Jenrick is Reform’s most coveted debutante

16 January 2026 6:11 am

Westminster has its faults, but if you’re looking for a good old-fashioned day of mistakes, backbiting, and last-minute drama, there…

What does Jenrick’s defection mean for the right?

16 January 2026 5:00 am

Robert Jenrick arrived late to his own defection. ‘It’s time for the truth’, he said, before launching into a speech…

Robert Jenrick joins Reform

16 January 2026 4:43 am

Robert Jenrick has rounded off an extraordinary day on the British right by formally joining Reform. Sacked by Kemi Badenoch…

Will a military boost be enough to stop Trump grabbing Greenland?

16 January 2026 4:30 am

When Donald Trump sets his sights on something, it’s hard to prevent him getting what he wants. That hasn’t, however,…

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Why can’t Democrats speak frankly about Iran?

16 January 2026 3:38 am

The manicured grounds of Harvard University are tranquil. Ditto the expensive quads of Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Stanford. All across the fruited…

Nick Timothy takes Jenrick’s job

16 January 2026 3:33 am

It’s a treacherous business, politics. One day you’re the future Tory leader, the next you’re sitting on the independent benches…

Tory chairman: ‘This was treachery’

16 January 2026 2:18 am

So. Farewell then Robert Jenrick. The most popular member of the shadow cabinet (according to ConservativeHome at least) was this…

Reform risk becoming the face of Tory failure

16 January 2026 12:36 am

How grim things are suddenly looking for Nigel Farage and Reform UK. It isn’t that their poll ratings are crashing…

Why are illegal migrants welcome in Britain but not Eva Vlaardingerbroek?

16 January 2026 12:21 am

So they can control our borders after all. After the government presided over a near-record high for small-boats crossings last year, swinging…

Sacking Jenrick has made Badenoch stronger

15 January 2026 11:20 pm

The most important thing about Robert Jenrick’s sacking isn’t Robert Jenrick. It’s that it is yet another demonstration of Kemi…

Kemi sacks Robert Jenrick

15 January 2026 10:43 pm

Kemi Badenoch has sacked Robert Jenrick from the shadow cabinet, removed the Tory whip and suspended his party membership. In…

How America could help bring down Iran’s Islamist regime

15 January 2026 10:22 pm

The near-total internet blackout imposed by the regime in Iran has now continued for nearly a week. Behind the veiled effort…

Britain’s economy is standing still under Labour

15 January 2026 6:41 pm

Britain’s economy is standing still. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics show GDP grew by just 0.1…

The Supreme Court’s trans athlete ruling matters to women everywhere

15 January 2026 6:11 pm

Women are losing trophies and, in some cases, suffering serious physical harm when male athletes are permitted to compete in…

Iran, the Shah and the revival of kingship

15 January 2026 5:54 pm

Earlier this week in Los Angeles – home to the largest Iranian community in the United States – thousands gathered…

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Calling Trump a ‘pedophile protector’ was ‘fate’

15 January 2026 7:04 am

In a time of political turmoil, the world cried out for a hero, and it may have found one in…

Starmer’s ‘jokes’ make him sound like a creepy uncle

15 January 2026 3:03 am

Another week, another U-turn! This time the PM had chosen to make Prime Minister’s Questions even more torturous for himself…

Japan’s Thatcher is making a huge election gamble

15 January 2026 1:59 am

Japan will go to the polls in February for a general election after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called a snap…

Starmer’s gags fail to save his PMQs

15 January 2026 12:33 am

It used to be said that Keir Starmer had a magic lamp, such was his fortune in opposition. If this…

Samuel Pepys’s school should be proud, not ashamed, of its ex-pupil

14 January 2026 10:49 pm

‘I know not how to abstain from reading,’ wrote Samuel Pepys back in the seventeenth century. Were he by some…

Ed Miliband’s wind power delusion is costing us a fortune

14 January 2026 10:27 pm

Remember the summer of 2022 when politicians from Ed Miliband to Boris Johnson went around telling us that wind energy…

The SNP’s Budget was nothing but cynical spin

14 January 2026 10:20 pm

Yesterday, Shona Robison, Scotland’s finance minister, delivered her tax and spending plans for the coming fiscal year. The headline message…

The public are right: citizenship is a privilege, not a right

14 January 2026 10:09 pm

Keir Starmer is, in many ways, a remarkable prime minister. He is remarkably uncharismatic and remarkably unable to discern the…

How Trump can squeeze the Iranian regime

14 January 2026 9:46 pm

The Iranian people have shown true courage as they protest against the Islamic Republic. As the pressure mounts, some elements…

When will the West Midlands Police chief go?

14 January 2026 9:30 pm

Congratulations to the Met: you are officially no longer the worst run police force in the United Kingdom. The West…