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Andy Burnham’s Ministry of Truth
Yesterday, in America, Andy Burnham announced a new policy which has already been met with concern within the US government.…
Andy Burnham is no statesman
‘Britain is back,’ Burnham declared in his big speech to the UN yesterday. We have been laid low by ten…
Lucy Powell: We can’t stop the boats
Lucy Powell said the quiet bit out loud this morning as she all but admitted that Labour has given up…
Why Putin is unlikely to attend the Miami G20
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has today announced that the United States has invited Vladimir Putin to an upcoming…
Can John Healey dodge another round of tax rises?
Ever since bond vigilantes around the world decided it was time to offload their holdings in sovereign debt, Westminster has…
The English are a mongrel people, not an Aryan master race
Talking about what it is to be English seems to have set the cat amongst the pigeons and upset some…
Farah Ahmed and the useful idiots of Cambridge University
Students of Cambridge University’s gradual self-destruction will recall our disclosure last month that it has appointed as assistant professor a woman called…
Is Andy Burnham being sucked in by AI marketing?
Andy Burnham told Donald Trump this week that we need to ‘rein in AI’, and given who he is getting…
Are the Lib Dems now the party of rearmament?
Ninety years after Liberal leader Archibald Sinclair made the case that military weakness invited aggression, a new generation of liberals…
The rise of anti-migration direct action in Britain
On Monday and Tuesday, a so-called “mega dinghy” made its way across the English Channel from the coast of Normandy.…
How does Burnham plan to tackle Russian disinformation?
Hoaxers, trolls and disinformation merchants beware, Andy Burnham is on your case. In his speech at the UN General Assembly,…
Mamdani’s followers are seizing Berlin
Last Sunday, Germany saw a tale of two election victories. The right-wing Alternative for Deutschland narrowly edged out the left-ish Social…
Why does it cost £237 million to build a railway bridge?
What does £237 million buy you in Britain today? Not a lot, apparently. Botley Road, one of the main routes…
Net Zero has made Britain less safe
Our very ability to keep the lights on and maintain critical infrastructure is under threat. That is the stark message…
Did AI write the French book of the year?
Many decades ago (or so it seems, it was actually January 2023, but things move fast in AI-world) I wrote…
Burnham wins over Trump – but can it last?
Andy Burnham yesterday cleared his first major diplomatic hurdle as his meeting with Donald Trump in Manhattan passed without serious…
High energy prices are crippling Britain
He is a tax exile, he lives in Monaco, and, perhaps worst of all, he supported Brexit. As Sir Jim…
Trump’s UN speech was a blasé affair
Donald Trump remains on a renaming tear. During his Tuesday morning address to the United Nations, he declared that his administration will…
Xi has no interest in stabilising relations with Trump
When Xi Jinping arrives in Washington today for a much-anticipated summit with President Donald Trump, the Chinese leader will want…
Could there be a second Ceuta invasion?
Messages circulating in Morocco are calling for another mass crossing into Ceuta, Spain’s North African exclave, on Wednesday. Spain has…
The continuity idiocy of Labour’s foreign policy
There was for a time the vaguest sense that things had got better since Andy Burnham took charge. That the…
Ed Davey’s reheated speech won’t revive the Lib Dems’ fortunes
Sir Ed Davey today attempted to woo disillusioned One Nation Tories with a pledge to raise the higher-rate income tax…
Germany’s growing Nato influence should shame Britain
In defence and security, two adages form a powerful alliance: money talks, and you get what you pay for. These…
Sarah Mullally and the real problem with interfaith initiatives
The Archbishop of Canterbury has given the country a perfect lesson in interfaith engagement – in what it is, rather…
Police impartiality is under threat in Britain
Police chief constables are sleep-walking into one of the gravest threats to the impartiality of British policing we have ever…
