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Netanyahu accuses Starmer of siding with Hamas
To Netanyahu, who has taken aim at Prime Minister Keir Starmer after the deaths of a young Jewish couple in…
What Trump gets wrong about South Africa’s white ‘genocide’
There’s a joke in South Africa that it’s so easy to claim asylum here, even the Swiss could do so.…
How Starmer was stitched up over the Chagos islands
Yesterday, following a last-minute flurry of lawfare, the government published the text of its Chagos agreement with Mauritius. Future history…
Is it any surprise doctors are trying their luck with more strikes?
Did anyone really think that the incoming Starmer government was going to appease the public sector unions for long by…
Only now are Britain’s high streets busier than before Covid
Finally, in a horrible week for Rachel Reeves which has seen inflation surge, the public finances take a dive and…
What to do about Iran?
China is surely America’s most dangerous threat over the medium term, but Iran is surely the most dangerous right now. The Islamic Republic would be even…
Reform must prove to voters they’re more than a protest party
Reform is now touching 30 per cent in the polls, as Labour lags on 22 per cent and the Tories…
Is chemically castrating sex offenders really a good idea?
Convicted paedophiles could face mandatory chemical castration to suppress their libidos under plans being considered by the justice secretary. Shabana…
Harold Wilson was awful and brilliant
Does anyone still talk about Harold Wilson, the Labour prime minister who died 30 years ago today? Though the Labour…
The Chagos deal is a disgrace
It has been in the background for a few months, but it seems Keir Starmer has now decided to resurface…
Donald Trump should visit a black beer hall in South Africa
If Donald Trump and Elon Musk really want to know if there is a “white genocide” happening in South Africa,…
The Chagos deal will haunt Keir Starmer
After months of negotiation, the UK has today signed a deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Under the…
Israeli Embassy terror suspect formed by hard-left and BLM
The murder last night of two young Israeli embassy staffers, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, on a street in Washington,…
Britain really is becoming an island of strangers
New migration data released today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests Britain really is becoming an ‘island of…
One Big Beautiful win for House Republicans
The passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” early Thursday morning by the slimmest of margins in the House…
The irony of Kim Kardashian and Ivanka Trump’s friendship
Cockburn was amused by the recent spectacle of Kim Kardashian’s law school triumph (after three “baby bar” exams and a…
Reform gains another Scottish Tory councillor
To Aberdeenshire in Scotland, where a fourth Scottish Tory councillor has defected to Reform UK. It transpires that Dominic Lonchay…
This is what it means to ‘globalise the intifada’
‘Globalise the intifada,’ they chanted. This is what that looks like. Two Israeli embassy staffers gunned down as they left…
We’re finally allowed to say Biden was senile!
So, Joe Biden spent a great deal of his term in office suffering from what might politely be called senile…
Iran is feeling emboldened
After the cautious optimism of the early rounds of US-Iran talks, and Donald Trump’s Gulf roadshow, the US government has claimed that…
The Washington shooting is a chilling warning to Jews everywhere
Waking early on Thursday in London, I read the news on a half-lit phone screen: two people, Israeli embassy staff,…
Miliband’s 2030 clean power target looks increasingly impossible
The answer, according to Ed Miliband in an infamously toe-curling rendition of the Bob Dylan song, is blowing in the…
Starmer owes Sunak for halving net migration
A year ago today, Rishi Sunak called the general election. Watching the rain-drenched prime minister struggling to deliver his speech,…
Will Wall Street jitters stop Trump’s budget bill?
Donald Trump has already caved in on tariffs, pausing the ‘retaliatory levies’ he announced on ‘Liberation Day’ at the beginning…
Is Britain heading for bankruptcy?
We can thank Rachel Reeves for one thing: setting up a real-world experiment to show the Laffer curve in action.…
