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Tory MSP quits over party’s ‘reactionary politics’
The Scottish Conservatives aren’t having the best time of it at the moment. In more bad news for the blues,…
London’s tube strike is being driven by greed
You almost have to admire the RMT – they are a trade union from central casting. From Bob Crow to…
A presidential pizza delivery service
The excited word went out late Thursday afternoon that President Trump was going to do an evening ridealong with the…
Trump’s $500 million fine wasn’t justice
The New York Appellate Division’s decision to overturn the half-billion-dollar civil fraud penalty against Donald Trump should not be seen…
What Lewis Goodall gets wrong about inheritance tax
Do you want to live in a world in which you are forbidden from giving things, such as your time,…
What’s the point of nationalising our steel plants?
We already have Great British Energy, and of course Great British Rail. It now looks as very soon we will…
Zohran Mamdani’s politics of entitlement
Zohran Mamdani’s presumptive victory will make history: if elected in November, he will become New York’s first Muslim and first…
Cash in a bag? We’ll miss you, Eric Adams
If Eric Adams were a normal incumbent New York City Mayor, he’d have a decent chance of winning re-election against…
Does Trump’s handshake deal with the EU put America first?
What’s really at stake in these trade deals? That is what we are slowly discovering as Donald Trump’s handshakes with…
More people blame Tories than Labour for migrant hotels
Migrant hotels have been the talk of the week after the High Court granted Epping Forest district council a temporary…
GCSE English language isn’t fit for purpose
Today is GCSE results day, and as ever that is cause for celebration: one in five entries got at least…
The small boats are a national security emergency
New immigration data published today has only reinforced what many have known for some time – the current government strategy…
We need to purge the Ministry of Defence
On Afghanistan, you’ll recall, a massive data breach of vast dimensions and bitter consequences has already been revealed, after years…
Ad-land’s diversity obsession is seriously backfiring
There was a time when people of colour were not adequately represented in British TV commercials. For many years, despite…
Wesley LePatner and the sinister rise of ‘Luigism’
Shane Tamura walked into a lobby on 345 Park Avenue on July 28 and opened fire on the crowd leaving…
What is KPop Demon Hunters?
Since its Netflix release in June 2025, KPop Demon Hunters – an animated children’s movie about a Korean girl band – has…
Labour’s first year sees 111,000 asylum claims
When it rains for Sir Keir Starmer, it pours. Now it has emerged that during the Labour lot’s first year…
Britain shouldn’t be cowed by China in the Taiwan Strait
It has only been a few months since Labour’s much-trailed ‘China audit’ – touted as the masterplan that would finally…
The Epping ruling is the last thing Yvette Cooper needs
It is another scratchy, difficult week for the government. Inflation is up, to 3.8 per cent in July – the…
France is in denial about its migrant hotels
The High Court victory of Epping Forest District Council has made news in France. The decision to temporarily block migrants…
Why is Dale Vince comparing Tesla to the Ku Klux Klan?
Perhaps its cars automatically run down people of the wrong colour? Or its batteries will only charge if you put…
Israel will have to dig deep for its Gaza City offensive
Since the renewal of ground operations in March this year under the Southern Command, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have…
Why are white children doing worst at GCSEs?
That’s the trouble of trying to measure everything through the metric of race: sooner or later you will arrive at…
Britain is being pulled under by debt
Britain is slowly drowning in debt. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that in the…
Israel risks rewarding Hamas’s kidnapping
What weapon is stronger than F-16s, drones, targeted strikes, disciplined and war-hardened ground troops, and even nuclear weapons? Hostages. Despite…
