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How the SNP wrecked Scottish education
A small but not insignificant morsel of data on the state of education after 18 years of the SNP running…
Rayner’s PMQs performance will trouble Starmer
As you might have noticed from the crowds weeping in the streets and the appearance of sackcloth, ashes and rent,…
Should we worry about the Princess of Wales?
The announcement, when it came, was a strangely botched one. The official Ascot carriage list had stated at 12 p.m.…
The ridiculous fantasy of a Scottish universal basic income
One of the first casualties of the Covid pandemic was the millennial left’s defining project of a Universal Basic Income.…
Rayner’s PMQs clash shows why Reform is doing so well
Kemi Badenoch will have been irritated to miss today’s Prime Minister’s Questions, given it denied her the opportunity to accuse…
France won’t stop the small boats
The BBC have visited the French coast to see for themselves that Nigel Farage (and Coffee House) aren’t making it…
Revealed: Birmingham’s pest control costs soar as bin strikes continue
Today marks the 100th day of the Birmingham bin strikes. The City of a Thousand Trades has been subjected to…
‘De-escalation’ won’t work on Iran
As Donald Trump hastily dashed home from the G7 meeting in Canada to deal with the escalating conflict between Iran…
Assisted dying risks being Labour’s Brexit
On Friday, the Commons will vote on the third reading of the assisted dying bill. Most MPs expect it to…
Foreign nationals convicted of a quarter of sex assaults on women
Britain’s grooming gangs scandal has dominated the news this week, after the publication of Baroness Casey’s review on Monday. Now…
Will Iranians rise up against the mullahs?
Iran’s crumbling regime is fighting a war to the death on two fronts. The first and foremost is the conflict with…
The real scandal of HS2
As if the saga of HS2 could not get any worse, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander will reportedly announce today that,…
Why is the ONS saying inflation has gone down?
The rate of inflation remained flat at 3.4 per cent in May – still well above the Bank of England’s…
MPs have opened the door to infanticide
Well, it’s hello to prenatal infanticide now that Tonia Antoniazzi’s amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill has passed the…
Why Britain needs Israel to win against Iran
It’s understandable that the focus of coverage of Israel’s strikes on Iran, and the Iranian regime’s response, has been entirely…
Why liberals ignored the grooming gang scandal
For many years, liberals refused to talk about the grooming gangs scandal. The systematic sexual abuse and rape of hundreds,…
MPs vote to decriminalise abortion
MPs have voted to make the biggest change to abortion laws in 50 years this evening, backing the decriminalising of…
Starmer looked out of place in the mountains with Sky’s Beth Rigby
Sir Keir Starmer was doing an interview with Beth Rigby in the lush mountain landscape of Canada. Hardly a man…
Trump is putting ‘America First’ by ignoring the MAGA punditocracy
Political imbrioglios often take on the character of theological controversy. Back in the 6th century, the wise men of the…
Under Trump, there is no G7 – only a G1
President Trump moved through the G7 Summit in Alberta like a blowsy uncle swinging by the house for a drink…
Ex-Tory MP pleads guilty to harassment
To Cardiff, where a former Conservative politician has pleaded guilty to harassing their ex-wife. Katie Wallis, formerly Jamie Wallis who…
Rachel Reeves’s non-dom crackdown has truly backfired
Rachel Reeves may finally have seen sense. A report in this morning’s Financial Times suggests she is ‘exploring’ performing a 180 on…
Poll: just 3 per cent of women back Stella Creasy’s abortion amendment
It is a big week for big Commons moments. On Monday, we had the long-awaited announcement of an inquiry into…
Kemi Badenoch defends the Tories’ record on grooming gangs
Kemi Badenoch said that ‘survivors and their families’ have been ‘ignored for far too long’ as she appeared alongside those…
Israel isn’t close to victory over Iran
Amongst a swirl of pronouncements from Tel Aviv, Washington and Tehran – and against the dramatic backdrop of an Iranian…
