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A four-day week won’t save teachers from burnout
Campaigners have urged Bridget Phillipson to give teachers in England and Wales a day out of school every week with…
Tulip Siddiq can’t turn her back on Bangladeshi politics now
A Bangladeshi court sentenced the Labour MP Tulip Siddiq to two years in prison in absentia on Monday. Siddiq, who stepped down…
Starmer’s China policy seems stuck in the past
Prior to entering No. 10, Keir Starmer had little experience of foreign affairs. Yet in office, the subject has consumed…
Trump is right to crack down on the Muslim Brotherhood
Donald Trump has begun the process of banning the Muslim Brotherhood. The US President asked his officials last week to…
Why it’s good the NHS is paying more for medicines
We have caved in to bullying from President Trump. It will put NHS budgets under even more pressure. And the…
Mamdani hires author of defund the police bible
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has debuted the transition team intended to prepare New York City Hall for its 111th mayor. The…
How will Britain survive without Sally Rooney?
I am not sure there are numbers small enough to capture the net literary loss to Britain of Sally Rooney’s books…
Labour are almost as deluded as the Your Party faithful
Kemi Badenoch has some thoughts on the Labour party. When pressed by the Telegraph on who or what would come…
Lane Kiffin did the right thing
Sports media can’t stop complaining about Louisiana State University’s new head football coach, Lane Kiffin. A cliché tells us what’s…
The day net zero died
Quietly this afternoon, the government’s last remaining hope of achieving net zero by 2050 drained away. BP has abandoned its…
Prisoners playing video games with their guards is no bad thing
Another week. Another video from within a prison. More words of outrage. This time it’s a video showing a prison…
Richard Hughes quits as OBR chairman
They think it’s all OBR – it is now. Political journalists should always be wary of that word ‘inevitable’. But…
Ireland should venerate Chaim Herzog
The Irish are in many ways the ideal neighbours. They’re quiet, industrious, peaceful, send their best talents to London, and…
OBR probe reveals leak had happened before
Well, well, well. The official review of the leaked Budget documents that circulated last Wednesday ahead of Rachel Reeves’s fiscal…
Keir Starmer’s Budget defence has surely doomed Rachel Reeves
You can always tell someone is in trouble when the Prime Minister calls an emergency press conference. A combined force…
Should the police use facial recognition on children?
Should cops spy on kids? The revelation that police are including surveillance of young people in their expanding use of…
Tulip Siddiq handed two-year sentence in Bangladesh
All is not well in Labour party at present. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has spent the morning defending his Chancellor…
Starmer defends Rachel Reeves over Budget ‘lies’
Much of Rachel Reeves’s Budget was unprecedented: the leaking, the speculation and the OBR accidentally uploading its details an hour…
Why is it taking so long to strip away Andrew’s last title?
As Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor contemplates the wreckage of his public life and career, it would be easy to say that his…
Trump was right to snub Johannesburg’s G20 summit
The rule of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa since 1994 has been marked by a widening chasm between…
Why the prospect of peace in Ukraine is troubling Macron
Emmanuel Macron welcomed Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky to Paris this morning to discuss ‘the conditions for a just and lasting…
Violence is being normalised against the National Rally
Jordan Bardella has been physically attacked twice over the past five days. Flour was thrown over him at an agricultural…
Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform
Another one bites the dust. Now it transpires that the onetime deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Jonathan Gullis, has…
Dublin’s quiet march toward Judenfrei
Dublin’s councillors have seen sense – for now. They were due to vote today on a proposal to rename the…
Pope Leo’s visit to Turkey comes at an uncertain time for the country’s Christians
Pope Leo XIV is visiting Turkey and Lebanon on what is his first trip abroad since being elected in May.…
