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Is Jeremy Hunt following in Gordon Brown’s footsteps?
Anyone fancy having a flutter with 5 per cent of their pension fund on unlisted start-ups? It is not necessarily…
Biden chickens out on Ukraine and NATO
Shortly before his trip to Europe and the NATO summit in Lithuania, President Biden told CNN that he does not…
Claims about BBC presenter ‘rubbish’ says young person’s lawyer
Allegations about a BBC presenter paying £35,000 for sexually explicit photos are ‘rubbish’ according to the lawyer of the young…
Congressman warns about alien technology
There is compelling evidence we have threats to global security not from this earth, according to Tennessee congressman Tim Burchett…
Who’s to blame for Scottish drug deaths?
Scotland is the drug deaths capital of Europe and changing that is going to take something radical. The Scottish government…
Why is Sarah Silverman suing artificial intelligence?
Crypto was a wonderful Wild West of anarchic financial innovation, absurd idiocy and scamming. Lots of scamming. Then regulators came…
Nato would be wrong to reject Ukraine’s membership plea
US president Joe Biden has been busy curbing expectations about Nato’s looming decision over Ukraine’s future membership. Starting the accession process…
Is Joe Biden really a close friend of Britain?
According to Joe Biden on the steps of Downing Street, by travelling to the UK he ‘couldn’t be meeting with…
GB News investigated… again
Another day, another investigation into GB News. This time though it’s not Ofcom probing the self-proclaimed ‘people’s channel’, but rather…
Trump at UFC and Kristen Bell’s dinner party: two viral moments from two Americas
Viral moments from either side of the American divide come so frequently these days that they are forgotten just as…
Why it’s not over yet for Humza Yousaf
There’s a moment in Bob Woodward’s gripping book Peril, the account of the buildup to and aftermath of the 2020 US…
Putin is struggling to solve his Prigozhin problem
It’s satisfying when a jigsaw piece slots into place. Today we heard that Wagner leader Evgeny Prigozhin met Vladimir Putin in the…
How did Trans Pride allow itself to become a front for misogyny?
On Saturday, in Trafalgar Square, a man called for violence against women. Specifically, it seems, intellectually curious women, those unruly…
Sunak needs a plan B for illegal migration
When Rishi Sunak made ‘stop the boats’ one of his key pledges at the start of the year he mentioned…
Jeremy Hunt’s City reforms are far too timid
There will be some tweaks to the way that pension funds are allowed to invest their money. There will be…
Teenage boy arrested after teacher stabbed
A teenage boy is being questioned on suspicion of attempted murder after a male teacher was stabbed at a Gloucestershire…
The CPS has completely caved to gender ideology
It would appear that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has finally caved completely to gender ideology. New CPS guidelines for…
Trans activists don’t help themselves
I’ve tried to stay out of the trans-rights conversation, honestly I have. There are a number of reasons for this,…
In memory of Lord Brown
The death of Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood means that Britain has lost a great jurist – but also, unusually in…
BBC suspend presenter over explicit photo allegations
For the BBC, it never rains but it pours. Having only just emerged from the row over Richard Sharp’s appointment,…
Is Mhairi Black Westminster’s laziest MP?
The dust is settling after the SNP Westminster group’s deputy leader announced she would be standing down at the next…
Has Labour just found an election-winning argument?
Will Labour and the Tories be heading into the next election ‘following the same tram lines on spending?’ That was…
God the ‘Father’ isn’t sexist
Calling God ‘Father’ may be ‘problematic’, pronounced the Archbishop of York at Friday’s formal opening of the General Synod. Watching…
Watch: protestor crashes Osborne wedding
George Osborne’s happy day hasn’t gone as smoothly as the ex-Chancellor would have liked. First, he had to call in…
The unlikely rise of Germany’s defence minister
An unlikely political star has risen in Germany. Boris Pistorius, a 63-year-old father of two is a career politician and,…
