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What would Orwell have made of the term ‘un-British’?
There are few adjectives more abused than ‘Orwellian’. Sometimes, though, there’s nothing for it but to resort to Politics and…
How Kemi Badenoch saved the Tories
Most voters have no idea they are happening, but party conferences can set the tone for what follows. Last year’s…
Is Burnham about to open the door to radical constitutional change?
As Labour supporters gather in Liverpool this weekend, it will not escape delegates that we are, in all likelihood, at…
Does Tolkien deserve to be celebrated in Westminster Abbey?
Although 2026 isn’t a significant anniversary year for J.R.R. Tolkien, there has been more attention paid to the author recently…
Why the state punishes migration protestors
As ever more illegal migrants arrive on our shores and anti-immigration protests rock England’s south coast, the British state is…
Burnham pours cold water on a snap election
Andy Burnham has just ruled out a general election next May. As I wrote in my cover story this week,…
Burnham: Brexit is to blame for illegal migration
Ahead of Labour conference, Andy Burnham took to the regional airwaves today for a shameless exercise in pandering to the…
Anthropic has exaggerated another breakthrough
Another day, another claim by a frontier AI company to have achieved a huge breakthrough in science. Most recently, it’s…
Inside Zack Polanski’s brutal Jewish hustings
Yesterday evening, walking into the progressive synagogue in North London for a Jewish community hustings, Zack Polanski knew that he…
Red Ed slammed for cosy talks with Iran
Red Ed Miliband was today slammed by the Tories over his cosy sit-down with Iran’s foreign minister on the sidelines…
Should Reform be panicking?
A new MRP poll has predicted that were an election held tomorrow, Nigel Farage’s Reform party would be the third…
Ed Miliband’s Feroz Khan collab is sheer political propaganda
It has to go down as one of the strangest public encounters between a senior British politician and, well, a…
Spare us Macklemore’s smug braying about Free Palestine
Does Macklemore really want to “Save Gaza” or save his own lame career from the dungheap of history? Yesterday, the…
Is Wayne Rooney the greatest Jewish athlete of all time?
There’s a well-worn joke that the shortest book ever published is ‘Great Jewish Sporting Heroes’. We Jews are known for…
Watch: Iran’s UN envoy blanks Israel’s Starlink offer
This year’s UN General Assembly was a hotbed of dissent and disagreement. World leaders tore into their enemies from the…
What’s the point of Trump’s cringemaking fawning over Xi?
Moments before President Xi Jinping climbed down the steps of his aircraft to be greeted by Donald Trump, US marines…
It’s a miracle young people aren’t more unhappy
Since 2014, Oxford University Press has been tracking the Children’s Word of the Year, and the results reveal interesting truths…
Horses still have a role in the British army – for now
The Ministry of Defence is a frustrating organisation, secretive, slow to change, often hidebound by process. In one regard, however,…
The UN is no longer a forum for international peace
Should Russia’s aggressive war on Ukraine, with its accompanying litany of horrific human rights abuses, disqualify it from a seat…
Why are women giving up on the Labour Party?
A YouGov ‘mega poll’ out yesterday has been making headlines because it shows Reform UK pushed into third place, behind…
Watch: Polanski heckled at Jewish by-election hustings
Zack Polanski was heckled by furious residents of Holborn and St Pancras at a Jewish community hustings this evening. The…
Australia’s OpenAI hack is a wake-up call
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is someone who doesn’t appear on Donald Trump’s radar. Since Trump’s return to the US…
Was Putin planning to attack France, Italy and Spain?
Since CIA chief John Ratcliffe made an unannounced trip to Moscow in late August to meet with his Russian intelligence…
Does Britain have the worst air travel delays in Europe?
On Monday a ‘connectivity issue’ at the National Air Traffic Services (Nats) centre in Prestwick caused flight delays and more…
The problem with the Tories’ benefits crackdown plan
The Conservatives have had a change of fortune of late. With the latest YouGov polls suggesting that the Tories have…
